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When POSSESSION Replaces Love, Everything Breaks | Citizen Kane
Have you ever given someone everything you had, only to realize the giving was never really about them? Citizen Kane looks at Charles Foster Kane through the lens of attachment and control, asking why a man with unlimited power ended up completely alone. The central question is whether there is something you have been chasing your whole life that, even if you found it, still would not be enough. Kane is often read as a story about ambition, but the film is really about someone who learned, very early, that love disappears and that things stay.
The episode traces how Kane's childhood loss…
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