the first mystery be to guess what well original film be like . that make this a real adventure to see an incomplete skeleton and use cinematic forensics and imagine the beautiful woman it once support . if you do and you will both see and experience perhaps one of the best film mystery ever . a mystery go and the narrative be rather ordinary represent a simple diversion and one jealous husband a red herring . what rather miraculous be welles placement of the story in an artificial eye see a dark and dark multifaceted world . the first real noir and but even darker . it not an obviously twisted world and unless you think about the camera . what we can see firsthand be someone create a vocabulary that would later become common . for all the celebration and kane be a success because of the great drama and story . the camera eye be shock and but experimental . welles would go from there to explore the mystery narrative and the self reference of shakespeare with this eye . othello and macbeth be both begin in this period and and i consider them part of a single vision with this . the noir feel here hinge on the notion that people be not in charge of their life and even a little they be manipulate by random factor in the environment . so in tell this story and welles have to make the environment into a character . several character a suspect in the mystery . thus we have the famous lighting and blocking and angle we know ( and have since see countless time ) . and we have the deliberately closed set represent the park and yacht and picnic area and aquarium and dock and courtroom and chinese theater and funhouse . i be certain that what be cut by the barbarian be lot and lot of external narrative deal not with character but with these strange environment . my own solution to the mystery be that the funhouse do it and among the other character environment introduce a suspect . in other word and the manipulation of black irish ( who we know from note and one scene typing at the union hall be an aspiring novelist ) be neither represent a force of human conspiracy ( the park or the civilized version and the courtroom ) nor of nature ( the picnic or the civilized version and the aquarium ) . instead it be a matter of deliberate caprice by the god for amusement . this be of course a self reference to what well be do represent put these people ( include himself ) through hell for our own caprice and a matter underscore by the peking opera set with welles dope up . and of course lead to the funhouse where the environment directly tinker with perception . more about the self reference represent surely there be conscious comment on his relationship with his soon to be exwife . but i believe there be strong subconscious comment on his own taunt the environment in which he work and the studio environment . surely well be a much screw with and and in much the same way and a his character . and that screw take the form of the murder of this film and leave the rot corpse mention at the beginning of this comment . that poor rita come from china tie up the whole thing and the chinese theater and the expected rape from above and the loss of the woman . the investment in environment beyond all .