Rosebud: The mysterious final word of Charles Foster Kane on his dying bed. What does it mean? We could only guess among all the possibilities. (Personally I came up with my own meaning for “rosebud” but I don’t want to spoil the ending if you haven’t seen the movie). What we don’t have to guess is the moral of the story: the great difference between giving money and giving love. And more than sixty years after the production of this film it seems that society, particularly in the American culture, will never get it. As Charlie Kane said himself: “If I wouldn’t have been such a rich man, I could have been a great man”. Selfish individuals who believe in “love in their own terms” are unfortunately at the core of our society and we can only pray for some of these people to wake up to a life with more meaning than exchanging everything they love for something as common as money.
Needless to say, Orson Wells was a genius miles ahead of his time, in more senses than cinematography.
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