What is the theme in Citizen Kane?!

What is the theme in Citizen Kane?

What is the theme of the movie Citizen Kane? Can you think of any examples from the movie or specific scenes to support this?

In Citizen Kane, the theme can be approached a few ways, but the main theme is of what is lost and cannot be found.

Charles Foster Kane was a man who had everything in his life, more than most people could imagine. But the one thing he wanted he could never have, and that was his childhood.

Searching for Rosebud was only a maguffin ((something that the characters think is the main purpose, but only aids to move the storyline along)) to show Kane's life. While it truly does not matter to the film whether it is found or not, it moves the film's plotline along.

In the end, the unseen reporter describes Rosebud as a missing piece of a huge puzzle of Kane's life. The final scene displays what he lost, and the burning of it shows how in his death, he never got what he truly wanted, his childhood.

It is underlying in the time he mentions Rosebud. He is regreting not enjoying his childhood on his death bed, and it shows when he destroys his second wife's room.

The scene where he gets taken away from his parents can also be used to back it up.

That should be the jist of it. I can say a lot more, but I think it would be too overwhelming.