Citizen Kane Review

Citizen Kane was one of my least favorite movies. A majority of it confused me and I didn't understand the ending. I guess it's because I wanted it to be more. Other than that it was ok. I just don't like things that I don't understand. It frustrates me especially when other people do understand it then I feel like I'm just don't have as much common sense. I don't know maybe you guys will understand it and totally disagree with what I said.

The Story

Charles Foster Kane(Orson Wells) is given away by his mother, the real reason isn't known but it might be because his father was an agressive person. He was then raised by a man named Walter Parks Tatcher(George Coulouris). This man wanted Kane to do whatever he wanted and he didn't care what Kane wanted to do. Charles doesn't care about this and he just does whatever he wants. So he buys this old run down news paper called the Inquirer. After he got the news paper running he went on a trip and met the presidents neice Emily Norton(Ruth Warrick). They soon married and had a son, but the marrage didn't last because the news paper was Kanes life and he didn't spend any time with his family. This drove him into the arms of another woman, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore). His wife found out and they got a divorce, and Kane married Susan. Then Emily and his son ended up dieing in a car crash. He MADE Susan become and opera singer even though she hated it. She ended up leaving him because he controlled her and she wasn't alloud to go out and have fun with any of her friends. She had to just stay in this mansion all day and she couldn't stand it. After she left he went mad and distroyed her entire room. After he was finished he muddered one word "Rosebud". Then on his death bed right before he died he muddered this same word. This whole movie is about this reporter finding out what or who rosebud is and in the process we find out the above information about Charles Foster Kanes life. Nobody in the movie actuall finds out what or who rosebud is but in the last shot they show a sled with rosebud written on it being thrown into a fire.

Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's ok
4 - Great
5 - I would watch this again

I would rate this movie a two just because I didn't really like it and I wanted rosebud to be something more than a sled. I wanted it to be a person and I wanted to story to be more interesting. It just wasn't what I expected. It just wasn't that interesting to me.

Director
Orson Wells

Genre
Mystery and Art

Quotes
"You know Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man." - Kane
" I alway gagged on the silver spoon." - Kane
"Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of." - Mr. Bernstein
" I can remember everyting. That's my curse, young man. It's that greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory." Leland

Citizen Kane, in my opinion, could have been a better movie with a few little tweeks, but I'm not a director and I don't have the power to change the movie. Maybe they could have made Rosebud a person and continued the story a little longer to find out why she was so important. I guess I'll just have to wait until I become a director to make movies the way I want.