Maria Miles

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    • Elza 2022-04-11 08:01:01

      Below the novel, above the biography

      I borrowed the disc from the school without even reading the introduction and couldn't wait to open it directly. I thought it was a Kafka biopic, but it turned out to be below the novel and above the biography.

      At the beginning, the horror, suspense and horror are all there, and I thought I got the...

    • Sid 2022-04-11 08:01:01

      "Kafka"

      1991 independent film directed by "Sexual Lies Video" director Stephen Soderbergh. It is neither a biography of Kafka himself nor an adaptation of his novel, but a fictional text of Kafka, who intervenes on the fringes of the incident through a suspense murder case, in which many famous and typical...

    • Danielle 2022-04-20 09:02:56

      Not a biography, but a Kafka betrayal by Soderbergh. The black-and-white tone and soundtrack are not bad, a bit absurd and cold and blurred, but unfortunately the story seems too artificial and awkward no matter how you look at it: the wanton collage of a lot of Kafka elements, but the charm of Kafka cannot be obtained, and the further you go, the more Hollywood ......

    • Marta 2022-04-11 08:01:01

      Although the biggest setting is Kafka's "Castle", the worldview is more similar to "1984". This dystopia, which looks like "Big Brother is watching you" no matter how you look at it, has a lingering 90s America color. As the greatest novelist of all time, Kafka is also a clerk, and it's a bit reluctant to put him in the role of a dystopian detective. What makes a writer a writer is not struggle, but speech and silence.

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    Kafka quotes

    • Chief Clerk: Oh, I know you were friendly with that poor fellow, what was his name -

      Franz Kafka: Raban... Eduard Raban.

      Chief Clerk: Yes, yes, Raban. But he was too like you. Even more like you, perhaps, than you are yourself.

    • Doctor Murnau: A crowd is easier to control than an individual. A crowd has a common purpose. The purpose of the individual is always in question.

      Franz Kafka: That's what you're trying to eliminate, isn't it? Everything that makes one human being different from another. But you'll *never*, *never* reach a man's soul through a lens.

      Doctor Murnau: That rather depends on which end of the microscope you're on, doesn't it?