1941 movie.
The narrative method should be considered relatively new at that time. As soon as it appeared, it was the news of the death of the protagonist Kane. Newspapers in different languages used front-page headlines to make a unified voice, and Kane died. It's annoying but also curious about who this Kane is, and the whole movie is to answer that question. The story uses the perspective of a reporter to find an unanswered mystery: Rosebud. In order to know the meaning of rosebuds, reporters searched for the people who were close to Kane before his death, and then looked at Kane, guardian, friends, business partners, ex-wife... from various non-personal perspectives... to form a whole.
What kind of life should a person live? In the eyes of the media, Kane is a careerist who uses the media to manipulate people’s hearts and politics, and he is also a rich man who has been divorced twice, spent money without blinking an eye, and built a huge palace; in the eyes of his first guardian, He is a lucky idiot. He has many cash cows but publishes radical articles in a newspaper that does not make money. In the eyes of business partners, he is smart and thoughtful, and he is high-spirited to make the newspaper bigger and bigger; in the eyes of friends, he He is an idealist defeated by reality; in the eyes of his second wife, he has become an empty shell who once loved deeply, but in the end only knows how to spend money to please people.
There are a thousand Kanes in the eyes of a thousand people. In fact, the movie doesn't tell us what kind of person Kane is in the end. If he changed it to the first-person perspective, how would he describe the ups and downs in his life? Maybe we ourselves are completely different in the eyes of a thousand different people. Are people born for themselves or for others? How to answer the question "Who am I"? Maybe we don't need an answer either, because there will never be a right answer
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