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Citizen Kane
Drama, Mystery
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate formally inventive character studies about power, memory, and the emotional costs of pursuing the American dream.
- Tone
- cerebral, melancholic, bleak
- Payoff
- revelation, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- ambition, wealth, identity, loneliness, lost innocence
- Setting
- early twentieth-century America, newspaper offices, lavish estates, and intimate interiors
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