Wealth/Power is Not Always the Answer

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2000)

A powerful study of living just for the power that wealth can give you and ignoring the importance of interacting with people. Kane was shaped early in life when his mother had him adopted just so he could live a wealthy life. It was obvious that he preferred to stay where he felt love. The movie shows brilliantly the results of not being able to return love. As Kane's power grew he grew more distant in his relations with other people. In his first marriage he is shown in a very comfortable living area quite close to his wife. By late in his second marriage the scene shifts to a very cold, barren, cavernous room where Kane is at one end and his wife is by a fire at the other end. Finally at the end, his last word is "Rosebud." The one tie to when he felt something toward people as opposed to just wanting from people.