Rosebud ...

Dead or alive ... it could probably turn out to be a very simple thing.

I've never seen Citizen Kane and, as of this moment, I'm only 15 minutes in. I have to say, the look of black and white film seems to fit movies like this in a way that color doesn't. It's as if, by removing the objects, places and people's colors, you gain an extra degree of leverage through which you can mold them in a way that dialogue can't.

I suppose lighting is about 95 percent of this effect and I'm not going to ramble on and pretend I know anything at all about the techniques in play here. I'll stop short of that and just say that I like it.