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First of all, what you have to know about Citizen Kane is this: it was a snarky little liberal putdown of a supposedly conservative American icon ...

It was more of a film-maker's movie. The story starts to look pretty pat and contrived -- the millionaire boy who couldn't find happiness. The point was more the way it was told on screen.

[MarDav]

Wells was definitely about film-making and not so much story-telling.