Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

Introduction

Citizen Kane is a film of U.S. director Orson Welles. It was awarded as the best film of the year. Citizen Kane lends itself to myth-making at more than any other film in the history of cinema. The portraits in Welles' film newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, was in fact, strongly influenced by the real media entrepreneur, William Randolph Hearst. Citizen Kane got known for many elements, such as the amazing use of cinematography, including deep focus techniques and narrative structure.

Discussion

The lead character Charles Foster Kane dies at the beginning of the film in his bed, and it stutters “Rosebod” while he makes a snow ball fall to the ground without it. In the movie, one can see a different person in the room with him. Yet the whole film is based on the premise that “Rosebud” was Kane's last word out. Near the end of the film, we learn from Butler that he was in the room when Kane died. We have never seen him in the bedroom, but the camera has never shared the view on the whole space, so it is quite possible. Why he was not shown us in the room with the dying Kane? It may be so that the suspense of the movie remains there. Every single scene of the movie has safely assumed that everything has a purpose, and it is a good reason for it. The narrative of “Citizen Kane” is largely subjective, based on as seen by Charles Foster Kane in the stories and opinions of the interviewed companion. Depending on who tells about Kane, he was a different person each time. Here, is the key message of the film, that there is no truth and complete picture of a person, but a lot of fragmented images, none of which ...