citizen kane

This movie is good for people who want to be in big business because it shows a lot of techniques that people could learn from. This was a very controversial movie at the time it was in theaters due to the communism controversy going on at that time. I liked how this movie incorporated what was going on in real life in the movie. Citizen Kane has to be Orson Welle's best film he ever was in hands down; he did a great job.
it starts out with an eerie feeling in the castle called Xanadu, with Kane on his deathbed uttering his last words, "Rosebud". After that the movie continues on as a newsreel, talking about the death of this famed and accomplished man. It then goes through his life from the time when he was a child and his parents gave him up in order to give him a better life and so on to his great successes as the owner of the New York Inquierer newspaper. Noone had known what Rosebud had meant, and they wanted to; so the entirety of the movie is a reporter interviewing different epople that Kane was close to in order to find out what it meant; telling their stories and creating flashbacks. Rosebud is never truly found out until the end, where KAne's wooden sled in the scene when he was just a little boy is thrown in the fire where all of his other collectibles and items were thrown. On this sled, read Rosebud. So i guess it meant his childhood and peace and a simple life [before he grew famous and hated as well as loved]. Noone saw this though, thats what makes it a great ending to the movie. The scene just before this particular one, shows the reporter talking to all of his coworkers, thinking that rosebud maybe meant something he couldnt get orsomthing lost, saying that one word cant explain a mans life & certainly not his life; and that rosebus perhaps may have been a missing piece of a puzzle. When the Sled is shown at the end it gives a powerful feeling especially after the mysterious reporter said what his thought of Rosebud meant.
I think that this is a great movie and everyone should watch it at least once. IT shows the perks and downfalls of the rich and famous life. The scenery was amazing as well as the acting and storyline. i would definately reccomend this film. Anyone in a film studies class should watch this film at least once, it is the best one in the black and white era; hands down.