Citizen Kane is terrific movie. It topped the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list as well as the Sight and Sound polls of the 10 greatest films for nearly half a century, and rightly so. It is a powerful film that shows the importance of love during childhood.
The movie follows a reporter who is trying to decipher the significance of "rosebud", Charles Foster Kane's dying word. We find out that Kane's parents gave him up at an early age to a wealthy man, and he is forced to grow up almost immediately. He spends his whole life making people love him, when he does not, or cannot, love anyone around him in turn. He also most definitely struggles with love and self-respect for himself. He indulges in things because he is rich enough to, and doing things at the slightest whim makes him feel like he is doing something immature and childish, like he would have done if he had been a kid longer.
He pushes away his friends, coworkers, and both wives, and dies alone in his mansion, Xanadu. I guess the man got sick of trying to please everyone, so he holed himself up in his house and stayed there. It's really a pretty heartbreaking story, but a good one. I recommend seeing this movie, and if you don't like it, well then go back to your Wii, you uneducated teenager.
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