When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane's (Orson Welles) dying words that was "Rosebud", his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights that turned out to be the downfall of his . Though Kane's friend and colleague Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), and his mistress, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), she'd fragments of light on Kane's life but eventually leaves him through the way he behaves. This leaves Charles Kane to destroy the room in anger and leaving only the snow globe in his had as he says "Rosebud" and leaves the room. The reporter fears he may never penetrate the mystery of the elusive man's final word, "Rosebud". However, the audience can figure the relation "Rosebud" has towards his childhood through the rosebud sledge and the slow globe to portray the happiness he had in the snow as a child. This all connotes the happiest times of his life being as a child. With his aims to grow up being a nice man and not selfish or self-centered turns completely the other way through the dominance of money. This produces him to become the selfish and self-centered man he didn't want to be.
- Citizen Kane grossed over $1.5 million in just the USA alone.
- Citizen Kane also grossed over $200 thousand in the opening weekend during its re-release on the 5th of May 1991.
- Citizen Kane has been regarded by a lot of critics to be one of the greatest movies of all time, even better than some of Alfred Hitchcock's classics like Psycho.
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