Citizen Kane: by. Orsen Welles. Drama/Mystery

The criticism:
I consider Citizen Kane to be a movie work of genius. When Orsen Welles created this movie he truly set a bar, or criteria, for how movies should be made. Orsen Welles also used a lot of great film techniques that no one has never really used before in cinematogoraphy. Such as in the beginning of the movie when starts off in a gloomy looking swamping estate, called Xanadu, where it cuts to a man laying in bed dyeing with his lasts words being rose bud. Now just that one scene pulls the viewer in so close just do to the techniques Orsen Welles used. This was called "universal focus", thanks to imdb.com, Orsen Welles used this technique during the speech sequences of the movie. Another great scene that stuck out in the movie was the news reel, when they basically showed Charles Foster Kanes whole life in a few minutes, which basically gave you a heads up of the movie.

The Plot:
After the death of great and powerful man, Charles Foster Kane, a news group sets forth to discover what his lasts words, rosebud, meant. Through the movie they interview the people that were closest to Mr. Kane, but at the end they truly never discover who are what rosebud is. Then there is a twist you the viewer discovers that rosebud is only a sled he had owned as a child. So basically the news group a this elaborate story about this great and power hungry man, but all they want to know is what his last words meant.

Orsen Welles:
Orsen Welles: I thought that this was very interresting due to the fact he sort of did a little of everything in the making of this movie. See besides directing this movie he also starred in it as Citizen Kane even though he was not so much a great actor as he was such a great director. Another thing that I thought was very interesting about this movie was the fact that this was the only movie he had final cut in.