I think if I were a moviegoer in 1941, I would've been very fulfilled and pleased with "Citizen Kane."It's a really good film no matter what decade. Like many films, it's not dated nearly as bad and there moments when you think it's a Coen brothers film. Some of the shots are fantastic, and Orson Welles just jumps off the screen.
Also interesting is the flow of the story. It starts with the movie reel news story about the character's death and proceeds to jump back and forth between the present and the past and telling the story through, say, a journal or a person's first-hand account. I doubt this type of storytelling was happening very much in Hollywood in the 1940s.
It's an epic at two hours.
It gets a lot of praise and deservedly so.
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