This critically acclaimed mystery drama’s heart and soul undeniably comes from its eponymous protagonist: Charles Foster Kane. As we watch this renowned individual, through superbly innovative filmmaking, be literally plucked and tossed from his euphoric childhood into the depraved world of newspaper journalism, we come to understand and empathize with his persistent attempts to protect the forgotten man as well as his eventual transformation into a symbol of the very corporate power, greed, and arrogance that he initially fought to vanquish. But although Kane’s immoral actions slowly began to grow and rob the best of him, what remained through every secret affair and yellow headline of his was his “Rosebud”, so to speak. What others saw as an autocratic magnate who objectified the populace and libeled his way to royalty was truly no more than someone robbed of a free, youthful innocence and warped into an inexperienced money-making Rupert Murdoch; this was the reality Kane became aware of and wholly embraced upon his the muttering of his final words, “Rosebud”, the name of the favored sleigh from his childhood. Screenwriters Welles & Mankiewicz toss conventional narrative aside in favor of an endlessly complex introspection of a morally pure soul struggling to sustain against the descending darkness of shady corporate interests. Their purpose is not to entertain the masses, but rather have them contemplate their own flawed existences, remember their invaluable capacity for good, and encourage them to spread that goodness in any conceivable way, so as to promote a philanthropic society instead of one ruled by power-hungry mercenaries.