Free fall market mechanisms in Citizen Kane and Chinatown.
Minimal gains to the public under free fall market mechanisms in Kane and Chinatown. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) and Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) can both be examined using the Milton Friedman doctrine which asserts that the responsibility of a business is to increase its profits (Friedman, 1970). Friedman believed in free-market capitalism and most of his opinions were based on criticism of Keynesian-style economic models where the government closely monitored economic metrics (CFI, 2021). Free market capitalism encourages minimum to no government interference in economic matters. In his 1970 paper, Friedman argues against corporate social responsibilities because businesses are to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society. In the two films, we learn that it is difficult for this to happen, we see both Cross (John Houston) and Kane (Orson Wells) crossing moral and legal boundaries to satisfy their needs to gain more. They are consumed by a...