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Citizen Kane's Happiness

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Kane’s happiness

A whole journey through the life of a billionaire and newspapers Tycoon, Citizen Kane is one of those memorable films that you must watch before you die. The film allows us to consider our life path and how do our decisions and life experiences lead us to conceive a new vision of happiness. Directed and starred by Orson Welles, this touching film portrays the struggles of a journalist to uncover the mysterious meaning of “Rosebud”, the last word pronounced by the famous Charles Foster Kane in his deathbed.
The imagery and filming devices used for the production of this masterpiece were so innovative and astonishing at that time that are still object of filmography study. One of the unarguable strong points of the movie, in

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