In the ant agonizingly long, but insightful, movie Citizen Kane, he utters a single word, "rosebud", before he dies. The entire movie is based on his Kane's elaborate life, and underlyingly hints to what rosebud actually means to him. We do not find out until the very end of the movie, after Kane has died and people are searching through his enormous amount of junk at his home, what rosebud actually means. The word rosebud is written on a sleigh that Kane has had from his childhood. Kane was taken away from his home at a very young age, and forced to live a slightly adult-lead lifestyle rather than a care-free childish life. Rosebud signifies the childhood that Kane never had. Besides the hidden message, to touch on what we've been talking about in class, Citizen Kane is also a big movie in the forefront of camera angles and lighting. The camera angles are very modern in Citizen Kane because not only are they from far away or in the corner, but they help to shape the story. For example, a lot of the camera views of Kane with other people are facing downwards on the other people as to signify that Kane is above the others and more important than them. The lighting is really modern because Citizen Kane makes use of dark and light sharp contrasting shadows which were very hard to do in the time period without hours worth of perfecting the lamps.
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