U Prashanth Nayak
Sometimes,
if you have to get to the heart of a legend, your scalpel will face a
tougher time clearing the thickets of pre-existent praise surrounding
it, than in the actual dissection of the subject at hand. A watching of
Citizen Kane ,especially for a cineaste who is not yet deadened by the
laureals heaped on it, may well require years of staying away from any
comments on the movie, and active exorcising of any external opinions
about it, before one settles down to the chimerical task of reviewing it
without bias.
Sometimes,
if you have to get to the heart of a legend, your scalpel will face a
tougher time clearing the thickets of pre-existent praise surrounding
it, than in the actual dissection of the subject at hand. A watching of
Citizen Kane ,especially for a cineaste who is not yet deadened by the
laureals heaped on it, may well require years of staying away from any
comments on the movie, and active exorcising of any external opinions
about it, before one settles down to the chimerical task of reviewing it
without bias.