Citizen Kane was filmed in 1941, which is a very different era from now. The style of the film and the acting is really distinct. The movie opens with a sign reading "NO TRESPASSING" while gloomy music is playing which offers a sort of depressing feel. Soon the camera moves to a lit window in a secluded tower, on the Xanadu estate, a lonely enormous castle. The Xanadu estate is where the film starts because that's where Charles Foster Kane's life ended; there he muttered the word "rosebud" and hunched over, dead. Then, a reporter from the Inquirer journey's into Kane's past to find the meaning of Rosebud. Through this, the magnate's history is discovered with a series of extensive flashbacks from 5 different sources that new the man.
In 1941, the US entered World War II and the great depression had just ended. The film was very appropriate for the time and had a dark feel to it which was probably also the mood of America at the time. It focused on a media magnate, Kane, but......
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