Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is about Charles Foster Kane (Orson Wells), an extremely rich media magnate. The film opens on the scene of Kane’s death. As maid enters the room, Kane dies clutching a snow globe containing a little wood house and uttering the word: Rosebud. A reporter Thompson (William Alland) is assigned to find out more about Kane’s private life, and the meaning of his last words. Kane’s life is told in a series of flashbacks. As a child abandoned by his mother, Kane later ruthlessly pursues wealth and power, to the point that he does not shun creating a real war in order to increase the interest of the public for his newspaper. In spite of his meticulous investigations, Thompson can not find out what Kane meant by his last word: Rosebud. He concludes that it will remain an enigma forever, but at the end of the film the spectator is given the clue that solves the mystery.