Rosebud.....

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2003)

There are many reasons WHY I like Citizen Kane. One of the main reasons is how it effected me after repeated viewings. I was curious to know why this movie is considered to be great so I watched it. But the first time I thought it was only 'decent'. But CITIZEN KANE was the kind movie that grew on me. When Kane was a small child, he was poor, he was living with his parents, and he was happy. But as he grew up and began to live a rich and powerful life, he threw away the love he had before for power and fame, and in doing so, he lost one of the most important things in his life, and that was happiness. He had everything. Everything that he ever dreamed of, but that wasn't enough, he was missing something in his life. I always remember the saying that 'money cannot buy happiness', and to me, that was the lesson I learned from this movie. If I say any more I will probably spoil the movie but I will say that Orson Welles really brought the character to life. We, the audience really get to know him. From his humble beginning to his tragic end. And I guess that there is a Kane in all of us, how we might long for power and forget what means the most to us, but we should look back at this movie and take a deep look at Kane's life. This was a complicated character, and as we go along with the movie we can finally understand him as the character itself is built more and more by structure---------until the final climax, we see the looks on his voice and hear him say his final words.