This movie Citizen Kane was directed by Orson Welles. The movie was released on September 5, 1941. Citizen Kane was known as a drama or mystery movie. This movie was made in a very unique way with flashbacks and flash forwards. In this essay I will discuss the how important flashbacks and flash forwards are, the flashbacks, and flashforwards. Flashbacks and flash forwards are very important in this movie. If you did not pay attention to this movie entirely than you will be lost. In this movie, Citizen Kane it was told out of order. The reason it is told out of order is because it is trying to reach the climax which is what one-word means. They are more flashbacks than flash forwards in this movie. But having flashbacks in this movie tells
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Citizen Kane has many flashbacks. Everybody in this movie is trying to reveal what does rose bud mean. This story is told by many different characters to try to figure it out. The first example I will use is when they are reading the note stating it is 1871 and a kid is playing in the snow. While, his mother and father are arguing inside about who has the kid. This is a flash back because, Kane mother signed off Kane to the banker Mr. Thatcher. The reason Mrs. Kane gave Kane away was for him to live a better life because, they were struggling economically. This flash back shows how his childhood was like. When Thompson goes visits Mr. Bernstein he tells him about how Kane publishes a declaration of principles. By him publishing that that is how Kane meets Emily. This how Kane got up in his first job as a paper boy and meet his lover. Another flash back is when the marriage between Charles and Emily is falling apart. At first they are close together than finally at the end of the scene they are really far apart from each other. This shows the down fall of there relationship. This scene was discussed between Thompson and Leland. Another flash back is when they move to Xanadu with his new wife Susan. From there his relationship ends bad because Susan finally leaves him. Which where Thompson meets Raymond the butler. This is the most important flash back of the whole movie because, this is where we finally reach rosebud.
Citizen Kane has many flashbacks. Everybody in this movie is trying to reveal what does rose bud mean. This story is told by many different characters to try to figure it out. The first example I will use is when they are reading the note stating it is 1871 and a kid is playing in the snow. While, his mother and father are arguing inside about who has the kid. This is a flash back because, Kane mother signed off Kane to the banker Mr. Thatcher. The reason Mrs. Kane gave Kane away was for him to live a better life because, they were struggling economically. This flash back shows how his childhood was like. When Thompson goes visits Mr. Bernstein he tells him about how Kane publishes a declaration of principles. By him publishing that that is how Kane meets Emily. This how Kane got up in his first job as a paper boy and meet his lover. Another flash back is when the marriage between Charles and Emily is falling apart. At first they are close together than finally at the end of the scene they are really far apart from each other. This shows the down fall of there relationship. This scene was discussed between Thompson and Leland. Another flash back is when they move to Xanadu with his new wife Susan. From there his relationship ends bad because Susan finally leaves him. Which where Thompson meets Raymond the butler. This is the most important flash back of the whole movie because, this is where we finally reach rosebud.