Wow!

Rating: 9/10 (31 July 2001)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I've watched this movie a couple of times, and every time the ending still grips me the way it did the first time I saw it. The story (which some have the audacity to call "boring") is about a man who had everything...except what he really wanted, love. Why didn't he have love? Because he spent all his time trying to accumulate more power, more wealth, more fame.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER AHEAD
Contrary to what many have said on this site, Rosebud not only symbolizes Kane's childhood and other superficial things like that, it also symbolizes the life he missed, the life he could have had, the joy he could have had, the love he could have had, if only money and power hadn't have gotten in the way. We all have rosebuds in our lives, and unlike Kane we are still alive to try to find them.