Citizen Kane Peter Lagerloef

                The "Breakfast montage" in Citizen Kane is a very unique sequence of scenes that is not found in many other works of film. The breakfast montage is unique because it is a sequence of scenes in which Charles Kane is having breakfast with his first wife, Emily, and in each scene he is explaining his current state of affairs at the Inquirer, but as each scene comes, he and his wife are more and more agitated and fed up with each other, particularly Emily with Charles. This sequence of scenes depicts the sequence of emotions inside of their marriage and the "downfall" that occurred because of numerous reasons. For example, the money and power Charles acquired got to his head and he therefore could not sustain relationships with the women he loved, whether it be Emily or Susan, his second wife. In the last quarter of the film, Charles hits Susan, causing her to leave him and Charles to be unhappy. I believe the downfall of his marriages and the causes of each downfall are critical to the essential plot and message of the story, which is somewhere between "Money can't buy you happiness" and "There are things money can't buy you", which all leads up to the death of Charles alone in his bed. After all, in the film, I believe leelan narrates and says "she was the only thing money couldn't buy him back", when he is referring to Susan. The marriages of Charles Kane in this film are essential to understanding the turmoil Charles had brought upon himself, and are presented in the film to illustrate the concept that money cannot always buy you what you want, especially if it is not a material object.