Citizen Kane

Scott Pierce 9/11 Film review Citizen Kane Citizen Kane is known to many people and film critics as a top 10 film of all time. This film directed by Orson Welles in 1941, made one word famous for the rest of Hollywood forever, "Rosebud". As we get into the film, the subject that the story is based on dies only speaking one word before his death, rosebud. Rosebud becomes a mystery of the main characters life, for the …

…mans life, we discover it is a symbol of the loss of childhood or innocence. After all of the interviews, and all of the stories, not one character is given the privledge of knowing what the word signifies. In the end we back out of the life and works of Charles Foster Kane the same way we came in, slowly moving back passed a NO TRESPASSING sign, and a locked gate leading to Xanadu. Rosebud.