content: Citizen Kane is not the greatest film of all time. How it garnered that reputation is far beyond me. This film is often prided on its technical innovations. The lighting, the cinematography, the editing is all done exeptionally. Lovers of the film resort to saying things like that, because the actual content of the film is banal and uninspired. Charles Foster Kane is not an interesting character. Through Well's film we learn nothing of Kane, he is one dimensional. This film is completely shallow, as if no emotion went into making it. It is mechanical, fails to make me think or question what I thought to be true. It fails as a character study and as an examination of human behavior. For a true work of art, by a true artist (as opposed to merely a Hollywood personality like Wells), watch City Lights instead. Citizen Kane is just empty.