u/Inside-Affect-6841

Thank you

I found the character arc of Charles Kane very compelling because it works on so many levels.

Since the movie covers almost every aspect of his life starting from back when he was a kid to him dying, every part of him is explored without sacrificing the pace or thematic elements of the film. I look at biopics that fail so often, trying to cover every part of the person’s life only to end looking like a montage sequence that reads like an informative Wikipedia article rather than trying to say something important. But Citizen Kane does not fall into this trap. The character of Charles Kane is embedded into this film’s masterpiece status.

Perhaps the part of it has to do with the fact that it is told in a dynamic non-linear structure, which was a lightning in a bottle concept at that time and was executed to perfection. I would be dreading it if a character’s life were told in a non-linear structure normally, especially if I do not find the character interesting. Charles Kane has all of the qualities to be an interesting character. Film immediately establishes the chokehold he has on the real world (forget fantastical big guns; big guns set in the real world are a different gravy). The huge contrast between his status and the relatively insignificant thing that he longs for in his final moments just forces it to be an interesting mystery.

With every real-life consequence his close ones or the world sees/experiences, we see/learn something about his life adjacent to it. His character pops out like a sore thumb because he contradicts the people and ideas surrounding him at the moment, which makes his character arc hard to miss. The film lays out his ideals clearly in front of us (literally at one point), which makes it easy to read his character. The story is constructed in a way that it keeps the mystery engaging, progresses the themes naturally, and teaches about this character at a nice pace… all of his life. Because Charles and the world have so much synergy amongst each other (Charles Kane and his world are very vocal about each other), and Charles's ideals are like an open book, his actions make realistic sense, or at least they give off an illusion that they do.This is very important to me because I always feel like there is a hint of governance by the filmmaker shaping the character's actions but not Charles Kane, which is a big step to make a character feel like a real person.

So basically Citizen Kane is goated and deserves all of its praise.

>!&gt;!Between all of the Wargrave faking his death and getting all of the calculations precisely right to execute Blore, I believe putting the trust on Vera to shoot Lombard is too much of a risk. If Lombard ended up besting Vera, it would be extremely difficult to make him hang himself, as he is not someone who would do such a thing (the final victim had to hang themselves, according to the rhyme).!<!<

>!&gt;!I believe Lombard already figured out that there was an extra person on the island apart from the 10 that is killing people. Either just subconsciously or he didn't get the chance to say it out loud before it was too late. If he came to the conclusion that the killer was between both, he definitely would not have let his guard down so that Vera could swipe the gun from him.!<!<

>!&gt;!It was very obvious to figure out that there was an extra person because just look at Blore's death. Vera and Lombard were together all the time between Blore leaving them and finding his dead body. If it weren't for the belief that Armstrong was still alive, they would've picked it up right there. Now that Armstrong was dead too, all it takes is a look back to Blore to know that it wasn't either of them.!<!<

>!&gt;!Vera was clearly destroyed emotionally to the point that she is starting to believe that the killings might be supernatural. Now that the only barrier she was clinging to, the theory that Armstrong may be the killer, broke, she may have fallen into believing the supernatural. She also distorted herself into altering the nursery rhyme where the last one standing marries and lives happily ever after; thus, she wants to be the last one standing (This is me trying to explain if Vera also noticed the Blore moment). She could simply not have processed it considering her mental state.!<!<