Citizen Kane Response

Citizen Kane Review Essay “Rosebud”, repeated throughout the movie, was a word that many viewers might have let slip away without really taking into consideration what it could mean. Rosebud was the last word to come out of Charles Kane’s mouth before his death and truly just another piece to a jigsaw puzzle. It had many meanings and many memories that were so dear to Charles Kane. Rosebud and its last memory is what made Kane the man he is known to be- strong, stubborn, strict, and powerful.
When Charles Kane, played by Orson Welles, was a child, his parents discovered a gold mine on their property. Kane’s mother used whatever came out of the mine to send Kane to live with Thatcher, the banker, so that he can get away from his abusive father …show more content…
To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect and I had to watch it three times to really understand what was happening and I had to rewind to certain clips to understand what something meant. I wasn’t very interested in the beginning but when Kane got married to his second wife I kind of felt like I could relate to her, which is why when we were having a discussion about her being naggy towards him and wanting materialistic things- it’s not really about him getting her diamonds or bracelets, she just wanted something sentimental so she could feel important to him. There were many things that people thought she could have wanted, like she wanted to have his child or she wanted diamonds and jewelry. I feel like she just wanted some affection from him. She wanted to mean something to him. She wasn’t very impressed with her life either. They were so wealthy and had so much money to spend on whatever it was they wanted, yet, they were sitting at home surrounded by statues collecting dust and jigsaw puzzles waiting to be put together. Another thing that made me think differently is her being obsessed with jigsaw puzzles. Maybe she wasn’t so interested in them but in trying to figure out her husband and understand what kind of person he is and why he does the things the way he does. Also, the snow globe seems like it meant something. It kept popping up in some scenes which had me thinking it was more than just a snow globe, like Rosebud. The snow globe is what was left from his second wife’s room after he tore it down because she left him. Maybe it was like Rosebud, the last “good” memory before everything went