They would never forget the way the camera had dived through the skylight of the seedy nightclub to pounce on poor Susie in her ruin. They discussed the interlocking pieces of the jigsaw portrait of Kane, and argued about how anyone knew his dying word when no one appeared to be in the room to hear him whisper it. Joe struggled to express, to formulate, the revolution in his ambitions for the ragged-edged and stapled little art form to which their inclinations and luck had brought them.
Clearly Citizen Kane.The use of deep focus, foreground and background both clear as n the scene with the with Agnes Moorhead inside the cabin window, while discussing the child, Kane, playing in the background through the window in the snow and on his sled( Rosebud) Also his use of shadowy lighting, using a grid on top of the set to create a sense of mystery. He introduced so many conventions into film. Everything s about juxtaposition of shots from one to the next.
