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Citizen Kane ranks to this day as a classic masterpiece of cinematic form, with its many remarkable scenes and performances; it's cinematic and narrative techniques and in it's experimental use in photography, editing, and sound. It has been regarded as a milestone in the development of cinematic technique. It uses film as an art form to communicate and display a non-static view of life with techniques that include the use of a subjective camera, unconventional lighting effects, an inventive use of shadows, deep-focus shots from extreme foreground to extreme background, low-angled shots revealing ceilings (which did prove big problems for Orson Welles as up until this time, the sets they were using didn't have ceilings fitted so they had to build them), hardly any use of facial close-ups, over-lapping dialogue, a cast of characters that ages throughout the film, flashbacks and the frequent use of transitionary dissolves and long,...

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