Today I saw someone disparage Citizen Kane by saying something like "It's about an old guy who took over an industry. Like we need more of those stories." And I honestly DGAF if you like CK or not but this seems such a surface level, reductive way of thinking about art to me.
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Like, we can have a working critique of the way Hollywood has always been racist and has always centered and glorified whiteness while also being open to the beauty or meaning of work by long-dead artists and creators working in a different era.
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Re: Citizen Kane and this particular critique, I'm reminded of a quote by Roger Ebert: “It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.” CK is about the emptiness of a life lived for ambition and power. It's about SO MANY things.
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To dismiss it as just another movie about a powerful old white guy or whatever is to mistake plot for theme, meaning, significance, substance, art.
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