I still think it’s arguably the best movie ever made.

Place yourself in the time period when it released when you watch it, and think for a minute that none of the stuff he’s doing with the camera existed before him.

The makeup, all the actors came from stage never been in a movie before, Wells’ transformation into an old man, watch the scope of Xanadu, how the fuck did he create the depth/scope back then??? It’s sheer magic.

But all that’s superfluous, designed to trick you while Orson Wells spins a tale about a man of great power and wealth who dies alone.

The final quote wraps up the movie perfectly…

“He was a man who got everything and then again lost everything, Rosebud must've been something he lost or something he wanted but never got"

It’s a movie about what’s really important in life, what’s worth living for and the mistakes and regret of an old man.

I saw it at 9 and didn’t understand it, again at 15 and thought it had a message but was past it’s prime, again at 25 and it hit harder.

41 now, life is at the halfway point, shit hits even harder as you get older.

I hope you find it as intriguing as I always have…