Citizen Kane

Brianna Bosco

Non-Linear Editing

Alex Bordino

February 23, 2015

Citizen Kane by Orson Welles is a movie from 1941 that takes a different approach to how the film is presented.  This movie has many back and forth scenes that bring us back to when Charles Foster Kane was a young boy to present day of him dying and at his funeral.  Throughout these flashbacks, a story is being told. This story is to solve the newspapers word: “Rosebud”. Throughout the movie, flashbacks occur of the man reading the word Rosebud in the newspaper. These flashbacks help us understand what the other characters are learning about Kane at that moment. The flashbacks show what Kane was doing during his life and it helps the audience to understand why he did those certain things in his life. In many films today, directors will put the video in order from what happens at the beginning to what happens at the end, where as in Citizen Kane, Orson Welles uses flashbacks.  This movie is considered one of the best movies of all time because of the way Welles uses flashbacks and how they help to tell a story. Flashbacks help us to put a story together almost like a storyboard, where things happen in a certain order and in the end they all go together.