Susan said there was "nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with", and even though people did vacation there, the vibe that Susan felt from Xanadu was depressing. Just like how Kane acted in their marriage, nothing at Xanadu was very meaningful.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Citizen Kane
While living at Xanadu, neither Kane nor Susan really seemed happy to be there with each other. This atmosphere was partially created by the palace in which they lived together. The mansion was so enormous and spacious that their voices echoed around the house and they couldn't hear each other from different rooms unless they yelled. Everything in the mansion was bigger than them; the fireplace seemed to swallow Kane when he stood in front of it, and the whole house was filled with "nothing but scenery and statues", as Susan put it. It was mentioned earlier in the film that Kane liked to collect statues and he might have put them all here in place of real human interaction. The house was filled with material things rather than sentimental things, and all Susan wanted from Kane was for him to do something meaningful for her rather than him simply buying her any and all things that she doesn't really care about.
Susan said there was "nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with", and even though people did vacation there, the vibe that Susan felt from Xanadu was depressing. Just like how Kane acted in their marriage, nothing at Xanadu was very meaningful.
Susan said there was "nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with", and even though people did vacation there, the vibe that Susan felt from Xanadu was depressing. Just like how Kane acted in their marriage, nothing at Xanadu was very meaningful.
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I liked your connection back to Kane's statue collection, which hadn't really been discussed before- and I definitely agree that they were all replacements for real interactions. Kane only ever bought materialistic things, and these objects that couldn't really hold sentimental value were a big part of that. Susan was just another statue in the end- an object that was incapable of loving Kane back.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how you further discussed the relationship with Kane and Susan in Xanadau. Great use of quotes as well and referencing objects in their relationship. I agree completely how objects act as materialistic objects in Kane's life and we see this in how he has always had anything he's ever wanted, but still doesn't seem happy. Like Lila said, that don't hold sentimental value.
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