Camilla Broccolo Citizen Kane review

To be completely honest, when I heard that this movie was considered the best movie of its time, I was expecting something much more captivating.  However, I do see how the techniques used in this movie could have been the best of its time.  One scene that really stuck out to me was when Susan was dying from the drug overdose. I thought that their technique of having the medicine in the front, and Kane and the doorway in the back in focus, but Susan not in focus was an interesting way to show what would happen in the following scenes.  It foreshadowed Susan leaving Kane by putting her in  dark, not in focus.  I think the only way they could have possibly achieved this was by putting together the film rolls to make one scene.  Other than this scene, through the entire movie, there was a lot of use of camera angles to show power or importance of a character. Another thing that I found interesting in this movie was how they used the beginning scene of the movie as the ending scene.  I think this was used to tell the audience at the beginning of the movie that the story they were about to hear was very dark and sinister, using it at the end of the movie could have shown that what they just heard was true and secret.  Finally, my interpretation of rosebud was Kane’s lost childhood.  At the beginning of the movie, he was ripped away from him sledding peacefully and having fun as a child and taken to a boarding school where he was supposed to mature right away.  Then at the end of the movie, that same sled with the word “rosebud” burned in the fire, melting away the painted letters.  I interpreted this as the loss of his innocence, and how even when he tried, he couldn’t get it back because his exaggerated life would get in the way.