Review of Citizen Kane

After the death of a controversial figure, Charles Kane, a reporter embarks on a research to find the meaning of Kane's last words ("Rosebud") that don't seem to relate to his life. Through the interviews and documents, the reporter get's inside the personal life of Kane right from childhood to his death.

Through the entire "Citizen Kane" experience, I felt sort of disconnected at some moments but one has to watch the entire movie to understand why this is one the most important movies of our time. Many critics believe that this film is probably the greatest film ever made and after reading about it a lot I decided to watch this film. Citizen Kane is a giant jigsaw puzzle and the audience is trying in vain to figure out what the hell does "Rosebud" mean? But when you know it, the entire "boring and long" experience of this movie turns out to the most unique one. I watched it the second time and then it became clear to me. This is when you realize something important: a universal lesson that everyone learns sometime in their life and in this case Kane learns it at the twilight of his life.

I know this sounds too spiritual but believe me the movie is brilliant. Even if you love action or energetic movies, please just once, at least once, watch this movie. Citizen Kane promises of what movies can be and is a fine art movie in every respect. This truly is a great fictional bio-pic of a man called Kane who lost everything even after getting everything. No wonder why critics believe this to be the best movie in the world... But My personal view? I don't compare films because each great film is marvelous in their own style. And Citizen Kane is exactly that.