Citizen Kane

I thought that the most interesting aspects of Citizen Kane was the use of isolation. It seems as though even in childhood, Charles is always isolated from everyone else in the film. For example we saw Charles playing alone in the snow and then when he is being taken away he is isolated once again. I think that this adds to the anti-american dream message that Citizen Kane tries to convey. This is one of the only movies where you see a rags to riches go wrong. All of this comes from the central theme of the difficulty predicting life. This movie shows the viewers that it is not always how it seems no matter how wealthy you are. I thought that the imagery of the snow globe really contributed to all of the messages above. The globe was never really what it seemed (switching from outdoor to indoor, to switching scenes). In the end it also breaks signifying his death, but more importantly the death of the last time he was truly happy.