... a new start. When his second wife leaves him Kane realizes the corruption wealth has done on his life and says "rosebud" because he wants to return to his sled, his childhood, to return to the beginning when wealth has yet to corrupt him. Citizen Kane is the story of a man's great ideas to ... make the world better, but unable to because of the corruption wealth brought him. Citizen Kane is set at ... of this film are very important in revealing the theme of corruption caused by wealth. Citizen Kane comprises of one episode after another, an endless stream of events that lead to Kane's ...

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Citizen Kane A. Throughout the movie Citizen Kane the view that nothing really matters and that there is no meaning, or nihilism, is often prevalent. It is said numerous times in the film that Charles Kane lost everything that he ever got. He spent the majority of his life running an unprofitable and failing newspaper, he lost 2 wives and although he had multiple riches through out ... mysterious last words, but in the end he doesn"t find them to mean anything. In a sense the lack of meaning to the word rosebud represents a lack of meaning to Kane's entire life. B. Shadows and silhouettes we...

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Citizen Kane wasn't a film that I would have chosen on my own to make it a movie night, but it incorporated many aspect of film that I found interesting. I found the intense use of shadows ... present. The most interesting part of the film I noticed to be the constant referral to Rosebud, it locked the interest of the viewers perspective to determining the meaning behind rosebud. It wasn't fully determined to the viewers if the reporters ever found out the true meaning behind "rosebud", but the viewers were aware of the fact that he missed his parents. Rose bud ... camera movements and angl...

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