Citizen Kane's Last Word 'Rosebud'

The movie "Citizen Kane" is an American drama filmed that came out in 1941. The film was considered the greatest film ever made and topped the American Film Institute's 100 years list in 1998. The movie starred Orson Welles who played the main character Charles Foster Kane. The movie was Welles first motion picture and jumped started is career to becoming one of the greatest actors of all time. The main plot of the movie was not how great of a newspaper typhoon Kane was but his famous word "rosebud". This was his last word before he died. An reporter interviews Kane's friends and associates to find out the mystery behind Kane's very last word.

The following of Kane's death a newsreel gives an overview of Kane's life and career but the producer is unhappy with the film due to its lack of who Kane truly was. So he sends out a reporter to gain information to uncover Kane's famous last word "rosebud". While the reporter interviews Kane's most closet companions we get a series of flashbacks of Kane's past. The first flashback we see was when the reporter goes to

He dies holding a snow globe that reveals a little cottage which is Kane's childhood home and saying his last word "rosebud". The reporter finally interviews Kane's most notorious butler. The butler recounts that Kane had said "rosebud" after Susan left him, then finds and pocketing a snow globe. The reporter spends most of his time uncovering the meaning of this word but finds nothing and gives up. He thinks that maybe a rosebud is something he couldn't get, or something he lost. No one will ever no. As the film ends the camera reveals Kane's childhood sled with the word "rosebud" carved into it. Now many people have their own thoughts on what the word on the sled meant. But what I think was that when Kane died he said that word not only because of the sled but because it was a symbol representing Kane's true