I started to watch this film and i did not feel any compassion for Charles Foster Kane. He is a rich and powerful man who owned many newspapers but as the movie went along i began to feel sorry for him. To say Kane had a bad childhood would be an understatement. When he was young he was sent to live with a banker named Mr. Thatcher. Schooling and work took up all of Kanes Childhood and left him away from his parents at an early age. Kane would never recover from the horrible childhood that he had endured.

The movie shows me that having power and money does not make you the happiest person in the world. I would say that Kane wanted to be loved for having power and not for being himself. Some old man once told me that unless you love yourself, you can not love anyone else. This is the truest statement i have ever heard and it applys to this movie. Kane had two wifes and both divorced him and left him in a state of depression. Even with all of his power and fame he would still be alone and unhappy. When he died he had accomplished so much. He had owned several news papers, ran for public office and had made millions of dollars. All of this meant nothing to him because he was alone in a world where he did not love himself