Citizen Kane
In Our Time: Culture
The Cockatoo
To see it on a big screen is to really appreciate that fantastic, sort of fetishistic preoccupation with decor. The decor is telling us what is happening to Kay in every stage in the film. There's an image of him in that fireplace, the biggest fireplace. It's dwarfed by this. Up until that point, he's being big. But there's the extraordinary cockatoo. I think you want to talk... You suddenly think this is a completely different film. That whole sequence is so wild, actually. Like literally. And not only have this close-up of the cockatoo, and that's where I feel like I was thinking about the film as being
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