I didn’t actually bother to see this movie until about six months ago, thinking it would be great for its time but also very dated. I also heard it was hard to watch. Boy, was I wrong.

“Citizen Kane” is the great achievement of a generation, and it moved film leaps and bounds ahead of what it was previously. Never before has a single movie moved the industry forward so much.

Plus, it is just flat out entertaining. It’s emotionally wretching to watch, which is good, a story about a man with a flaw that not only makes him great but also makes him poor. It shows how you can achieve everything in this world and still achieve nothing.