The challenge of "Citizen Kane" is mainly reflected in its bold breakthrough of traditional film aesthetics. It does not belong to any genre of genre movies. With the spirit of pioneering the "New World", Wells created a unique and innovative multi-perspective modern narrative structure. Starting from the death of Kane, the interview conducted by the young reporter Thomson to solve the mystery of the "Rosebud" led to five different recounts of the characters. These recounts intricately present Kane’s life journey. Different stages and different aspects of Kane's character: These five narratives bear the unique emotional imprint of the narrator and their different subjective evaluations. In this way, the traditional narrative mode with the causal chain of the plot as the main axis is broken, the time sequence is also broken up, the story is divided into several intermittent fragments, and the same event is sometimes retelled and recounted from the perspective of different people. Profiling. This leaves a relatively free and broad space for the audience's thinking, which is precisely the most modern feature of "Citizen Kane" in terms of the overall grasp of art. The challenge of "Citizen Kane" is also reflected in its determination to innovate the language of the film and its visual skills. The film systematically uses "depth-of-field shots", long-shot passages, sports photography, audio montages, ceiling background processing, etc. These bold attempts of visual techniques are precisely to put the elusive and trapped surroundings around Kane. The alienated world art is presented.
"Citizen Kane" has become the textbook of modern movies since the mid-1950s, and has influenced every director since then. It has become the supreme coordinate to measure the achievements of film art. The film uses a special lens with deep focus to make the background as clear as the foreground, which is a revolutionary technique. "Citizen Kane"'s innovation in film composition is not limited to this. Its use of extreme low-angle lenses and the use of strong black-and-white contrast give people an amazing feeling.
