“If anyone heard Rosebud, it would be that nurse. But the film offers evidence of the nurse coming in after that word's already been uttered. So it doesn't really explain how we even know that this was his last word. The whole thing hinges on a kind of impossibility. … By knowing what Rosebud is, we kind of don't know anything.”

I mean, it's spoken to. The thing that I think is funny is that if anyone heard Rosebud, it would be that nurse. But it seems like the nurse is coming in. I mean, unless, you know, it's sort of like who that word is spoken to us more than it's spoken to anyone. And actually, part of the whole conceit of the film is that someone would have ever heard this. But if you actually, what the film offers us evidence of is actually the nurse coming in after that word's already been uttered. So if it doesn't really quite explain how we even know that this was his last word, so the whole thing hinges on a kind of impossibility.