Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles, Clip: The end...

The Image: Nobody can fail to be in awe of this clip. The final return to the No Trespassing sign; that horrifying huge chimney that blasts all the smoke from the fire that consumes much of Kane's possessions (including the Rosebud sled). A funeral pyre of loneliness.

I always thought that those tall piles of Kane's various personal possessions and packing cases, sprawled about like the junk it always was, festering in that anonymous room while people wander about, aimlessly speculating on the Rosebud myth, look like lonely skyscrapers when the camera pans away.
(Perhaps everyone says that)

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