Citizen Kane

Name: Citizen Kane
Director: Orson Welles
Released: 1941

Orson Welles

childhood trauma power and corruption the american dream loss of innocence wealth and isolation

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Synopsis

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.