Citizen Kane

The film Citizen Kane is based on a series of flashbacks from the different people in his life. The narrator in Citizen Kane during the "News on the March" newsreel montage is flawless. Rather than being a character from the film, it is the "voice of accuracy". It is an "objective" rendition of historical fact. Most other narrators have a subjective persona because they are perceived to be telling a story. Citizen Kane goes on to use several more narrators in the film, the Thatcher manuscript, Bernstein in his office, Leland in the hospital, Susan in the El Rancho nightclub, and with Raymond at the end of the movie. Each of these narration’s are provoked by the reporter Thompson, who is in turn motivated by his quest to find out what the elusive "Rosebud" mea...