In the year of its 70th anniversary, Orson Wellesâ?? cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane â??is more relevant than ever,â? says a polished, thoughtful essay posted yesterday at TechCentral, a South African site devoted to technology news and reviews.
In pressing the point about Kaneâ??s relevance, the essay argues:
â??Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, sitting in his already-crumbling but unfinished Xanadu, is Colonel Gaddafi railing at the Libyan rebels from his exile or a doddering Rupert Murdoch stumbling over his words in front of the commission investigating the News of the World scandal.â?
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