Citizen Kane

Out of all the times that I've watched Citizen Kane it took watching a commentary for me to realize this. The opening scene is brilliant. It's so cool! The window of Kane's bedroom is where the opening scene ends, but it's also where it begins and where it stays. In every single shot in the opening scene the window , or the light from the window, can be seen. Not only is it just seen, but it's seen in nearly the exact same place every scene. I can't imagine how hard that must've been to pull off.... and to come up with the idea to do it. The opening scene is one of my top 10 (no I'm not going to do a list) favorite moments of Citizen Kane... and it's mainly because of the whole window ordeal. As a side note... I like how the very first thing you see is a No Trespassing sign and then the first thing "you" do is trespass, and that's all you do for the rest of the movie is "trespass" until the movie ends with the No Trespassing sign once again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqz2rekeYMc