Citizen Kane Narrative
Citizen Kane,directed by Orson Welles, contains multiple narrators who knew the late Charles Foster Kane. Through these narrations one sees the life of how one of the richest men of his time dealt with his livelihood and the people who surrounded him. For a man who seemed to have it all people failed to realize that he lacked one thing: a childhood. Kane’s lacking childhood affected his adult life by hindering his ability to keep healthy relationships; Welles portrays this to viewers through distance, framing, and multiple narrators in order to show the audience that past events can have a lasting effect.
In the beginning of the film there is a news reel that plays a brief biography of Charles Kane. Some of the points made were that he came …show more content…
Kane and Alexander’s relationship started in the midst of his first marriage. At the point when Kane had the affair it was at the point where his marriage was extremely distant. The scenes in the movie show the degression of Kane and his first wife Emily’s relationship. The framing of the scene places the husband and wife opposite to each other at the ends of a long table to show the distance that is being formed. In the beginning of their marriage, they started out with constantly talking to each other and showing affection to one another, then over time they start talking less and less and becoming cold. The ending of that particular scene is when Kane and Emily are sitting in their designated spots at the table but not a word is being said, they both are reading the newspaper but Kane is reading the Inquire while Emily is reading the Chronicle. This is significant because it shows the audience how the relationship was in a bad place and how it caused Kane to become vulnerable to seeking out another relationship. This scene is shot at a low angle which mimics how a child looks up at his parents, it makes us feel like we’re helpless and can’t help the deterioration of Kane and Emily’s marriage, much like how Kane must have felt in his adolescent days when he was snatched away from his
In the beginning of the film there is a news reel that plays a brief biography of Charles Kane. Some of the points made were that he came …show more content…
Kane and Alexander’s relationship started in the midst of his first marriage. At the point when Kane had the affair it was at the point where his marriage was extremely distant. The scenes in the movie show the degression of Kane and his first wife Emily’s relationship. The framing of the scene places the husband and wife opposite to each other at the ends of a long table to show the distance that is being formed. In the beginning of their marriage, they started out with constantly talking to each other and showing affection to one another, then over time they start talking less and less and becoming cold. The ending of that particular scene is when Kane and Emily are sitting in their designated spots at the table but not a word is being said, they both are reading the newspaper but Kane is reading the Inquire while Emily is reading the Chronicle. This is significant because it shows the audience how the relationship was in a bad place and how it caused Kane to become vulnerable to seeking out another relationship. This scene is shot at a low angle which mimics how a child looks up at his parents, it makes us feel like we’re helpless and can’t help the deterioration of Kane and Emily’s marriage, much like how Kane must have felt in his adolescent days when he was snatched away from his