Citizen_Kane

Citizen Kane The film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, opens with a picture of a castle with a window that has a light turned on. As the backgrounds begin to change into a closer view of the castle, then a view of the castle from the reflection of the water surrounding it, we are drawn into the window as a man falls dead with the last words “Rosebud” coming from his mouth. We are then brought through a maze of scenes that reflect one man’s journey through life from his childhood with an abusive father, to the time he inherits the world’s sixth largest fortune. Charles Foster Kane, is portrayed in the movie as a man who has everything one could ever want. Whatever he doesn’t posess, he tries to buy. Power and wealth to Kane are the epitamy of success, and although he claims or atleast tries to be happy, he truly is not a happy person. As Kane begins to learn that the things he wants most in life he cannot purchase, so to do the people with whom he surrounds himself with. When Kane ran for governor, he tries to use his wealth to overpower his opponent, Gettys. This kane, rosebud, man, things, people, never, love, life, himself, happy, film, buy, wealth, view, truly, tries, public, one, given, everything, childhood, castle, window, wife, whatever, welles, wanted, tried, throughout, through, someone, singer, show, power, paper, movie