When Kane choked and begged Susan not to go, when Kane was playing with the glass ball with snowflakes and muttering "rosebud", I finally understood his pain.
As said in the film, "A rosebud is just a piece of cardboard in a jigsaw puzzle, the missing piece." Yes, he was an outstanding leader, commanding his legion to execute his orders resolutely and accurately, constructing a material power The kingdom of influence, with thousands of cardboard pieces on the puzzle of this kingdom, is missing only one piece, and its name is "Love".
It's just that this kingdom doesn't seem to be what Kane wants. He has always been eager to exchange material power and influence for that piece of "love" cardboard. Be a revolutionary fighter for the love of the poor people, build the opera house for the love of Susan, who is sometimes like a saint, sometimes like a tyrant, every aspect so real and without contradiction, because he doesn't love them, he just Hope they love him.
The only friend Li Lan's drunken rant is very pointy, "You mention voters as if you own them, as if they belong to you. Oh my God! You've been talking about giving power to the people since I can remember, as if you Can give them freedom as a gift, as a reward for their service to you... Remember those laborers? You don't at all when you find that means they think something is their right and not your gift won't like it...you just want to convince people that you love them so much that they should repay you with love. It's just that you want to define the way you love, as you make the rules, It 's a game to play."
Kane's political ideals were shattered because of the exposure of an underground affair a week before the election, and as a result, he was able to marry Susan. "Susan is a cross-section of America." Kane bestowed upon Susan the love that would not have had the chance to bestow upon America's poor.
After marriage, Susan first shouted "Why don't you let me decide for myself", then committed suicide. The first sentence after being rescued was "I can't let you understand my feelings". Then, like a queen, she lived in a palace of 49,000 acres and was lonely day after day. What she said to Kane before leaving echoed Li Lan, "You turn a blind eye to the things I really care about... Yes, you gave me a lot of things, but those things are meaningless to you, then It's just money, it doesn't mean anything, the things you care about have never been given to me. You have never given me anything! You just want to buy me and ask me for it. You don't love me, you just want I love you."
If Kane, the tragic king, gave him a monologue, I guess he would say, "How can I give others what I don't have myself? That's how my mother loved me, give me what she thinks The best." If he was given the right to choose, would he trade his childhood without his parents' family for a rich life?
Bernard Shaw said that there are two tragedies in life: one is not getting, and the other is getting. In fact, what is even more tragic is that after you get it, you find that you don't want it, and the price you sacrifice in the pursuit is the most precious...
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