Currently in the “rant” category. Who knows, maybe I will want to watch more in the next time so that I will include a “movies” category.
This is by far the most tiring movie to watch but I was so curious about what actually is so good about this movie that I’ve stuck to it. I really want to go to sleep now but I feel that I should comment on this great movie a little bit more. First of all, I have to say that I preferred “To be or not to be” over this movie – it was a lot more fun to watch, and in some ways I even think it is better done. I watched “To be or not to be” 2 days ago, and it looks like I’m more into fun movies right now, although both of them are, in some ways, sociocritical.
So in some ways, I have to admit that I did not enjoy the movie. Watching it is like… reading Tolstoi. You really think it is unbelievably good, but you can’t feel it. I adore the cinematography of this movie (and the way the story was told, with all those time gaps and flashbacks), definitely, but I hate the storyline. There was no psychological analysis whatsoever, there was no attempt to make any of those characters interesting except for Kane, who – to me – rather looked like a nobody who’s unable to love and nothing more. I expected a deeper insight of Kane and/or into the society that surrounds him… or the way he actually became that successful he was.
But I have to say that I was impressed how big the impact on me was when I saw the end. 30 seconds before it ended, I thought it was over and that “Rosebud” really doesn’t mean anything. That might have been possible too: A life is too complex to be explained with one only word. But there was an explanation, and that explanation was just absolutely gorgeous. It saved the whole movie – at least in my eyes. From “Hm, pretty nice, nothing spectacular” to “Oh, wow.”