It’s a sin if you haven’t heard of Orson Welle’s and still call yourself a cinephile. Well, the legendary filmmaker and actor have successfully inspired a generation of filmmakers.
However, the review itself reflects a growing degree of negative criticism about the technical use of lights and shadows. The critic who wrote under a pseudonym for the Chicago tribune highlighted “It gives me the creeps and I kept wishing they’d let a little sunshine in.”
But to think that this masterpiece would lose its place because of an 80-year-old review. It’s simply unacceptable. According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, the single negative review of the movie out of the already-compiled collection of 116, dropped the film’s score to 99 percent. And if that’s not all one can certainly say art isn’t for art’s sake it’s for the sake of criticism that art finds its due place.
Well, it’s not all bad, the reviewer also praised Welle’s acting in the lead role as Charles Foster Kane, calling him a “zealous and effective performer.”But to see the fact that after 80 long years this is lowering the score of a masterpiece like Citizen Kane is simply unacceptable, standards are good but they must be transformed into hypocrisy.
If that sounds like somebody went to the theater with rather high expectations, the review confirms as much. Although Citizen Kane has now been bumped from Rotten Tomatoes’ illustrious 100% club, that says all about how unfair it is to subvert merit and creativity over something so trivial.
I mean somebody didn’t like the light and shadows and wanted to see sunshine and what happens! 80 years later somebody actually kicks the film and throws it into jeopardy.
I mean Paddington 2 has a perfect 100 but not this masterpiece.
Should I call it a comedy of errors or shall I call it an act of arrogance? Whatever it is this certainly wasn’t expected but either way, watch out for more classics that are still available and hope rotten tomatoes rectify this as soon as possible.