"Citizen Kane" is not a wooden horse but a sleigh! Unforgettable is childhood~

"Citizen Kane" is a biographical film shot by Orson Welles in 1940. Orson Welles served as director, producer, screenwriter and Starring. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1941 and eventually won the Best Original Screenplay Award.

Reprint:: The audience saw the key scene to clarify the truth, that is, the words Kane said before his death were the trademarks painted on his beloved sled from his childhood. These words represent the sleigh of his childhood, which in Kane's mind is a symbol of the happy times of his childhood. We see that he refused when his guardian offered him a new sled to replace his; his sled had been kept by his mother and later collected by Kane as a relic of her mother. He always remembered this sled. Now the sleigh was reduced to a wisp of smoke like his body. It is easier to understand the scene when Kane angrily punched his guardian with a sled as a child, and the furious Kane who picked up the glass ball with the snowy scene inside and said "rosebud" after Susan left. The film begins with a powerful image that highlights the broken crystal ball in Kane's hand (a sled is missing in the snow scene), until the end of the film, when the discarded items of Shenandoah Manor are burned, a childhood favorite of Kane is revealed. The sleigh, with its faded "Rosebud" logo, was devoured bit by bit in the fire. This sled echoes the crystal ball at the beginning of the film, suggesting that at the end of Kane's life, what he cannot forget are still some innocent things from his childhood, revealing the reflection of the "humanity" deep in Kane's heart that has not yet been extinguished. With implicit artistic ink, the film elevates modern social problems to the philosophical level of human alienation, and profoundly presents the huge contradiction in Kane's character: the irreconcilable opposition between greed and tyranny incited by capital and human nature. The words "Rosebud" that Kane moaned out before his death showed the deep sorrow and intensity in the heart of this old man who was driven through the course of his life by the wealth of capital, political ambition and extremely selfish love and possessiveness. The sense of loss and helpless pain. In Kane's life, in the words of his friend, "Kane was always trying to prove something." Kane has been fighting all his life, but he failed in the election, and his plan to promote Susan as a singer failed. The kingdom he spent his whole life building was not completed until his death. Kane's character is revealed layer by layer through different character relationships, making it appear full and thick. American film theorist Bordwell once pointed out: "Citizen Kane" contains huge historical contradictions. Its original title was "America". It bears the contradictions and pressures of the entire modern United States. The contradictions it depicts " It was the echo of the whole country", thus giving the screen image "a new contemplative intensity". It is in this sense that he hailed "Citizen Kane" as "a monument to modern cinema."