Saturday, October 24, 2009
Two Classic Films
Third Man still shades Citizen Kane in
my judgment, with its vile characters
rushing huge against floodlit ruins.
Gritty postwar utter exhaustion.
The wickedness, and crushed innocence,
work-a-day military straining underdepravity and political burlesque.
But the American film more specifically prophetic.*
*...decent, hard-working people in this community...
robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates...
Labels: Citizen Kane, film, Third Man
