Remarks on Citizen Kane from The New York Times—
"… a kind of metaphysical detective story…. At the end we realize that the fragments are not governed by any secret unity: the detested Charles Foster Kane is a simulacrum, a chaos of appearances.” Borges concluded by quoting Chesterton, "there is nothing more frightening than a labyrinth that has no center." *
* The actual quote is from a Father Brown mystery, "The Head of Caesar," "'What we all dread most,' said the priest in a low voice, 'is a maze with no centre….'"