Citizen Kane

              Citizen Kane came out in 1941and was directed by Orsen Welles. The film was done in a non-linear structure. Non-linear is storytelling out of chronological order, sometimes used to convey memories of characters. In the case of Citizen Kane Welles flashed forward and back throughout the film. The first jump comes in the beginning when an young Kane is at christmas and they flash forward  to an adult Kane and Mr. Thatcher finishing his sentence that he had begun in the previous scene. There is a point in the film where Kane and his wife are sitting at the table and she is repeats the same question to Kane a few times, each time it is a little further in the future. Most of the film is flash backs because the reporter Thompson is interviewing people who had previously worked with Kane. Thompson is interested in finding out what Kane's dying words meant. When he interviews Kane's collegues they are much older and then flashback to their memories of Kane. Non- linear structure is still used today director Quentin Tarantino often favors this method of story telling one example would be in his film Pulp Fiction.