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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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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“Michaelangelo’s David? Like we need any more statues of white guys.” It’s not more! It’s the best one of those! Yes, let’s make and champion art about other experiences, and hold the best of it in the same veneration we hold these.
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