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Citizen Kane Essay The film Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles, creates its deep inner meaning by displaying its characters in numerous interrogations and situations from the past. Not only are we offered with an excellent use of lighting, cuts, and angles, but also a great use of the technique of time distortion. Since the film was made out of sync, we as the audience have the opportunity to piece the plot, theme, and characters together …

…a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, a missing piece." Rosebud was Kane's missing piece in his quest for happiness. Just as a blind man can't see without his eyes, Kane couldn't find happiness without the love and happiness from his childhood that Rosebud represented. Unable to love, Kane lived life with a gaping hole in his heart. A hole like the missing piece of a puzzle.