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…expense of human potentialities. The implied absence of free will in the development of Kane's character is thematically constant with the moral climate of his environment. As the techniques used have not been limited in form, so too, Kane's magnitude unchecked by limiting principles or rooted traditions, become the cause of spiritual. It is the implementation of such unlimited filmmaking techniques that help make Citizen Kane the absolute masterpiece that audiences have come to cherish.