Citizen Kane. A movie about power, what power can do to a person and how it shifts the balance in the society. Power. Ano nga ba ang meron sa power at ito ang pinagkakaguluhan ng mga tao? Bakit nga ba ang tao e ginagawa ang lahat to attain power? Power to control everything, anything. Pag may power ka lahat ng bagay kaya mo gawin, lahat ng gusto mo possible. This is predominantly portrayed in Citizen Kane as Kane, being one badass rich kid, can do whatever he wishes to do. To irritate people, to take away anything from other people, to literally and figuratively lord over others. Power is something seen as a commodity that can be used in order to suppress everybody. Power can drive any man into the top of the hierarchy.
Charles Foster Kane. A man destined to become the most powerful person in the human race. A man whose name speaks volumes of greatness. A man who is attached to every vital political thing in the earth: Land, Media (newspaper), Politics, Charisma. Such a great man that can change the life of a thousand within the snap of his fingers. His power subsides, and coincides with the fact that he "controlled" the minds of the people through yellow journalism. He manipulates the crowd without them knowing it. He managed to become the hero in the eyes of those who became blind by his persuasion. Power (controlling majority of the newspaper reading population) + Power (persuasion, sheer intelligence, great risk taker) = Power that can overcome anything, everything. Something that everyone of us wants, a power that is limitless and endless.
However, mother nature is cruel enough to provide the irony in every living thing. For the case of the great Mr. Kane, it is the lack of love he did not received and felt, his Rosebud. This spot of weakness is one thing that power nor money and fame could overcome. The lack of emotional attachment from someone very important shadowed his great life until his eventual death. The deprivation of his childhood is a burden too much for him to carry that until his deathbed it is the thing he regrets the most, that he wants the most. This deprivation caused his frustration during the first parts of the movie. The angst, the stubbornness, the evil intentions. All of this boils down to the backlash he suffered by the lack of love he received in his childhood.
To be great and powerful, one must sacrifice his/her emotional attachment to everybody. To be loved and to love back, one must be weak and futile to those who are powerful. How pitiful a human life can be.
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