Citizen Kane

CITIZEN KANE

Director: Orson Welles

American Drama

I personally think this was a 'different' movie. I did like how they told his story through the media, and how others wanted to hear about his life. I didn't like how they made him out to be a bad man. True he was a brute, but he did have feelings and he did care about people. I think that the strange fascination with the statues was that he didn't have a lot of friends and the statues were to replace the feeling of friends.

I do think he was deprived of his childhood and that is why he thought of "Rosebud" when he died. I thought it was going to be his mom or something, but it was his sleigh from boyhood. I think that it was sweet that that was what he thought of with his last breath. Also, i still don't really know why he married Susan. I don't think he really loved her as much as she loved him. i don't think he loved her singing either.

I would like to give this movie 31/2 stars out of 5, because i did like this movie, it just wasn't as interesting as the others.
Characters: Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane. Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane.     Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland.  Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein. William Alland as Jerry Thompson.

I love the symbolism of Susan doing the puzzles. It symbolizes what Kane is all about. That he is one big puzzle, but with one piece missing.

QUOTES

"No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece." ------Thompson

"Really Charles, people will think-"... Emily

"- -what I tell them to think." ----Kane

  "It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was."----Rawlson

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