From the moment the film starts it is clear from the "No Trespassing" sign that the director is taking us somewhere we are not welcome. The close ups of the chain link fence and the iron gates are further evidence of the inaccessibility of the castle in the distance. The images of the emptiness in the gondolas and a decaying golf course suggest that this place was built by someone of wealth. Then we are introduced to a single word “Rosebud” having just tuned into the movie I had no clue what the word means. From there we are thrown into an ocean drowning down memory lane the moment we are introduce to Charles Kane, it’s always from someone else perspective that gives us a distorted view of this man.
The image that embodies innocence is the
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In the end Charles loses morality, decency, kindness, intelligence and wisdom all the qualities that we saw him possess at the beginning of the film deserts him, like all fallen heroes they disappoint you with their frailty’s
Throughout the whole movie, I got a feeling that Charles never had any real emotions and nothing could affect him, well this is until I learn what rosebud was the sled from his childhood is something Charles was deprived of.
Charles had everything any one man could want in life, a beauty wife who for the most part in the beginning was loving before his ego pushed her away, but she was still there for him, an extravagant social life and last but not least millions of dollars. Charles had all this but he still never seemed to be pleased.
One can only speculate had Charles been brought up with a childhood, one that provided love and nurture as most children experience, maybe he wouldn’t have been so cold and brutal. The attraction of money wore out for him after a few years but it had already done its damage, and then we find him stuck, with nothing to do and most of all nothing that pleases him in life