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Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2003)

Spoiler Alert Citizen Kane, started in a new way that most movies back in the late 30's to early 40's never really started. It began with the death of citizen Kane in his home by himself uttering the last word of rosebud. Then throughout the film a reporter was trying to figure out what Kane's last word meant. He interviews his old wives, friends, employees, he starts to figure out how Kane really was a man with out feelings, just power hungry and wealthy. While I watched the movie I went through many feelings, such as disappointment, anger and sadness. I was disappointed that Kane never came to realize why all of his wives left him, and why his friends slowly departed. He worked to hard and always wanted to better himself and not anyone else. Anger because he treated his friends and wives like their feelings did not have any meaning. But sadness because he never came to be happy he started his life unhappy and through the film he tried to buy his happiness but never succeeding but of course how did this man die, by him self. With no one, to even say goodbye to, that man must of had a very dark life. This mans life was dark, and the film portrayed that, not just by his actions but also by the lighting and music when he was alone or even the time when he was in his large home with the singer with he sat way away from her in the dark and she was by the fire doing a puzzle. The films last scene was Kane's ex-employees and reporters packing everything up that way they could get rid of it and sell it. They never figure out what rosebud meant but we did as the last shot was a sled with the name rosebud burning in the fireplace. I enjoyed the film it takes you through the life of someone you never knew, and it had pretty good detail and accuracy. Not only that but shows how different the films were back in the early forty's.