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Citizen Kane (1941)
★ 8.0 · 6,021 ratings on TMDB
Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
DirectorOrson Welles
The emergence reading
Citizen Kane keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
