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Apr 16, 2013PatrickLongworth1969 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Two dvds. Quite a lot of content for seven days and quite a lot to get through, this time I skipped much of the special features. I watched the movie and found it intriguing the way it started out with visuals at first (later it ended with similar visuals). How Kane came to leave his family seemed far fetched to my way of thinking but considering the times it was set in, perhaps it was something that happened? As Kane moves on through his career and life (career seemingly before his married and social life) he becomes something of a sympathetic figure at least for his imagined, if not realistic, stance for the poor and marginalized. His accusing friend came off as quite the awful person too. Kane's slow slide into solitude is saddening. This is a great film which also includes "The American Experience" comparison investigation of Orson Welles and his adversary Hearst (the newspaper publisher/owner).