"Citizen Kane": A Story of One Man's Inability to Love.

Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" is a cleverly crafted movie told in a series of flashbacks telling the story of a man who manages to distance himself from everyone he comes into contact with. Throughout the film Welles uses mise-en-scene and cinematography both deliberately and subconsciously to point things out and foreshadow things to come to the audience. Specifically the relationship of Susan and Kane can be used as an example. In the scenes involving Susan …

…has come crashing down. In one short sequence we see how misconstrued Kane's persona is. We see that indeed Kane cannot differentiate from ownership and love. For Kane, love means having to own. As a result Kane never realizes true love. Like the blues song said "There is no true love", and for Kane this hits home hard. Charles Foster Kane, with everything he had he lacked the one thing to make him complete, love.