This movie is a good movie and here's why

One word: Framing. If there's one thing Citizen Kane does especially well, it's framing. Accompanied by purposeful lighting and various camera angles, I don't think I've ever seen a film make better use of it. Take, for instance, the scene in which Kane's parents are discussing his future with Thatcher. As the camera pulls back, it sets the scene as Kane's mother sits on the right of a table, Thatcher on the left, and his dad standing up behind Thatcher. Although the camera is focused on these three, as this is where the movie is progressing, it also remains in deep focus on the young Mr. Kane, who we can still see playing outside in the snow, framed on either side by the other characters. This is to say that even though there is dialogue passing between the characters in the foreground, Kane, too, remains as important as any of them. Something very similar to this happens yet again in the film, although I can't remember specifically where. What's important is that while people are discussing Mr. Kane in focus in the foreground, we can still see Mr. Kane in action, and in focus, in the background. This is a pattern throughout the film- Mr. Kane is the most important person in the room. One of my favorite scenes occurs in a similar format. Two men (I don't remember whom, and I don't feel like going to find the scene) are at a table discussing money, I believe, in a large room with a high ceiling and large windows. Kane stands up in between them, and starts to walk away from the camera towards the far end of the room, toward the windows. As he slowly walks away, he is made to look gradually smaller and smaller as we realize the size of the room. Mr. Kane then walks back towards the camera, growing larger until he towers over the other two men. The entire time, he is kept in focus along with the two men. This scene is surreal, forcing the viewer to notice Kane's change in size in order to question the meaning of it.