... pull against his lead until the audience started to get some picture of what goes on inside the hero's head. But Shakespeare was a theatrical artist, and Welles, a veteran of theater, reinvents this idea by replacing outward theatrical indicators with subtler cinematic ones. The figure of Charles Foster Kane -- like the protagonists in many of Orson Welles' other films -- is a tragic, I'd say Faustian one, ... story. The only thing we are sure of at the end of Citizen Kane is that we can never complete the jigsaw puzzle, that while we now know almost everything, we still know nothing. ...

• Word Count: 2870
• Approx Pages: 11