So, it was 3 AM and I was still extremely high; music was no longer satisfying, my apartment had been tapped for sensory delights, the obvious thing to do was put on a movie and ride out the rest of the trip. Citizen Kane was recently added to Netflix and having never seen it before I added it to my queue. I was the first thing I saw when I logged in, so I thought it was as good a time as any and pressed play.

Uh yeah, so I have this thing on LSD with films. I'm sure lots of you have experienced it, but I become extremely involved in the narrative, the characters, the music, the mise en scène, everything, and almost become so drawn in that I feel like the film is really there and really happening. But because acid, another part of my brain is trying to grasp the meta and subtextual elements and how they relate to real-world fears, anxieties, hopes, angst, dissatisfaction, love, everything. And also because acid my brain is also making random associations, patterns, various visual phenomena and just straight tripping me out.

All of this was going on while watching this film and I started getting this weird mythology going on in my head, that I was part of a collective audience spanning the best part of a century gathered to view this film. I felt the weight and presence of all those people who watched this movie over the years pressed around me, silently judging and appraising each clever trick of perspective, every moment of dramatic irony, every beautifully delivered line of dialogue, every twist in the narrative. The smell of it all, the sweat and sugar of all those people, the sound of their whispers, through time and space, I could almost feel it. Enjoying the film, but wondering... when does it become the greatest movie of all time? Only to be hit with the shock and weight of it during those last few moments. An audience of millions all of us 'getting it' and seeing the brilliance of it all.

Definitely 10/10 tripping experience would watch industry-defining cinema again.