Synopsis Of The Movie 'Citizen Kane'

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The movie “Citizen Kane” directed by Orson Welles is an interesting movie about a young boy and his struggle of life. It is about Charles Foster Kane a young boy starting from the very bottom, and making his way to the very top. The movie is about a reporter is trying to find why the famous and very rich Charles Foster Kane said “Rosebud” as his final dying words. As the movie goes on, the reports go around everyone who knew, talked, liked or disliked Charles Kane, asking is “Rosebud” meant anything. They went around asking his first wife, who left him because Kane would spend all his time working on the newspaper business he bought when he was younger. They have a child together but sadly split up. Kane goes and tries to become the governor, …show more content…

Then he marries another women who was trying to become a famous singer, but really couldn’t sing. He even built an opera house for her to perform in since no one else wanted her; they produced one where she would be the star. I feel like she really didn’t love him no matter how much money or how expensive the things he gave her were, maybe she did love him it just might have been he spent no time with her, just like his first wife. Throughout the whole movie, everyone goes around and always said that it seemed like he just wanted the approval and the love of others. He was taken from his loving mother and a father like person who from what it seemed to me really didn’t want him there, or him overall. Being set away for a better life, for all the riches in the world. I understand his mother gave him away so he could have a better life, and have things he wouldn’t have with her. When he is taken away all he has of his mother is the sled, which they don’t go into in until later. Therefore, maybe that’s all he wanted. The approval and the love of his mother, but since he was taken away from his mother he tried to fill that empty hole in his heart. A love and approval of someone who cares about him, his mother, something he never