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Rosebud
Anibal 2022-03-22 09:01:08
Rosebud is more probably Welles's intuition of the illusory flashback effect of memory that will affect all of us, particularly at the very end of our lives: the awful conviction that childhood memories are better, simpler, more real than adult memories – that childhood memories are the only things which are real. The remembered details of early existence – moments, sensations and images – have an arbitrary poetic authenticity which is a by-product of being detached from the prosaic context and perspective which encumbers adult minds, the rational understanding which would rob them of their mysterious force. We all have around two or three radioactive Rosebud fragments of childhood memory in our minds, which will return on our deathbeds to mock the insubstantial dream of our lives.
Extended Reading
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Laila 2022-04-24 07:01:02
❶ As an ordinary person - I asked myself what I was doing when I was 26 years old; ❷ As an audience - how many good films did it produce and how many bad films did it prevent? There's no way to prove it, at least there is. And "Rosebud" is a sleigh, a snow day in a crystal ball, and his lost childhood (the original trajectory of his life), for which he protested all his life.
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Zelma 2021-10-20 19:00:33
It's pretty good-looking. Don't just use your current vision to demand it. Where does Windows 7 come from without 98?
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Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, here's a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn't the Inquirer a three-column headline?
Herbert Carter: The news wasn't big enough.
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.
Mr. Bernstein: That's right, Mr. Kane.
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Mr. Bernstein: Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money.