Since I have been on this film journey, I have watched movies from the early days so I can see (kinda sorta) the progression of movie making. From silent films in the early 1900s to blockbusters today. Viewing this movie today, you say....so what? It's not a bad story. Yes, Welles wrote it, directed it and starred in it. But so what.
If you watch the films that came before this - then the lightbulb goes off and you say 'wow, that is an impressive piece of movie making'. This is a complex story told in a very innovative way (for the time). Now, it's commonplace. You start in the present - then the story goes back in time and ends up where you started.
Also, Welles was a young guy and had new ideas as to how to make a film. He (in conjunction with his Director of Photography) developed a deep focus lens, so he could tell the story in all the planes of the screen, and not just the foreground.
This is considered to be the greatest movie ever made. (At least according to AFI's Top 100 Films.) I don't disagree with that. I will have a better opinion on that though, after I have seen all the movies on my list.
One word to describe 'Citizen Kane': Rosebud.
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