“I’ve tried to like Citizen Kane. I just don’t.”
Me neither. I found it mostly to be boring.
Citizen Kane is yesterday’s outrage over Hearst and his newspaper empire.
Kane is not a pleasant man and so enduring a film about him isn’t a joy.
And if you don’t have stones to throw at Hearst you don’t have that pleasure either.
Modern audiences today are left with camera tricks and composition. Okayyyyy. Looks nice but not “the end all” of cinema.