The Trial Comments

  • Lourdes 2022-03-21 09:03:26

    7.7/10 1. Expressionist photography creates absurdly surreal labyrinthine dream cages, how could I have imagined that it didn't fascinate me. 2. Wells couldn't help but mention his name at the end of the film, and the title of narcissist really lives up to its...

  • Reginald 2022-03-20 09:03:07

    The jaw-dropping panorama, the nerve-wracking editing, and the maze-like icy and terrifying movement of the camera, the nerves were tense throughout the whole process, and at the end he even said that he was overwhelmed and unable to interpret. Wells' visual talent is too suitable This story, the only sober person in the machine society, can't avoid going crazy in the end, and Perkins' performance is...

  • Lee 2022-03-20 09:03:07

    I sin therefore I am, sin is itself. The more Citizen K pursues the true meaning of life, the deeper his ill will, and the more he pays attention to life itself. Although K did not fully understand the legal world, every time K further violated the law, there was always something in K's heart that called him to realize the existence of the law and called him to face the trial. This force towards the Dharma is K's guilt. Although it is often ignored by K, it does not work all the...

  • Bartholome 2022-03-20 09:03:07

    A movie that is extremely admirable but very broken, dense lines with a huge amount of information, a unique oppressive perspective and play with light and shadow, a symbol with a profound sense of form and profound meaning, a man who bears an unwarranted crime is placed in a strange dream. Space, the process of seeking and defending justice in the distorted, dark and ugly "justice system", on the basis of Kafka's creation, Ao Pang has branded his own distinctive imprint and...

  • Casimer 2022-03-20 09:03:07

    In the end, I don't know what the crime of Perkins is, maybe there is no crime at all, this is Ao Fat. So I really like his performance more than the director of Ao Fat. Ao Fatty's films are always permeated with various imbalances in human nature and society, as well as the contradictions and contests between justice and evil. I need to admit the height and artistic value of his films, but it's really not my...

  • Marge 2022-03-20 09:03:07

    Wells is really awesome. This is the only way that Kafka's novels should be visualized. The crazy alternation of high-angle and low-angle shooting, the contrast between small people and big scenes, the paranoïa edited quickly, infinitely high and open space, everything is just an illusion of social justice and morality. Perkins' casting is perfect, thin, neurotic, powerless, innocent, tragic, natural, but unfortunately gay's temperament is so strong that no amount of kisses can hide...

  • Amos 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    So unreal! Cass is really strong! I just watched Jules et Jim a few days ago, and there is that girl in this movie too..and Sissi,...

  • Liana 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    2019-10-18 Revisited; 4.5; The geometric shadows cast by the building, the labyrinthine spiral staircase, and the silhouettes all over the face all show Wells's intention to restore the expressionist tradition. A nightmare driven by daily logic, time is stuck in a chaotic mystery (deliberately blurred day and night), while the influence of space is everywhere, whether it is cramped or a church/company/ Courts (public places that represent a normalized society, crowds such as accused dolls) and b

  • Damien 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    Kafka's works have always been interpreted from two perspectives: "outward": criticizing the bureaucracy, and inward: reflecting on the absurdity in one's own thinking. The genre of the film determines that large monologues and inner descriptions in the novel cannot be realized. It must be more interesting to say that the first kind is completely absent, but it must be more interesting to interpret everything as the second kind, as the externalization of one's own...

  • Coby 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    #大光 Cinema# 4.5 points. Romy Schneider Exhibition. The first Orson Welles. Personally, I feel that it would be better if it was not so "American". The "Kafka feeling" of the film is actually a bit weakened (or vulgarized), even if I can feel that Orson Welles is a little...

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The Trial quotes

  • Hilda: He's starting to take an interest in me. So, maybe I could do you some good, eh? This morning he sent me a pair of stockings for the law student. Want to see them? I've got them on now.

    [pulls up her dress]

  • Hilda: It's Bert.

    Joseph K.: Bert?

    Hilda: I know. He's ugly. Did you get a look at those legs of his? All the same, I gotta go and be with him. I'll come back soon. Then I'll go with you wherever you like and you can do with me whatever you want. What's wrong? Don't you believe me?

    Joseph K.: Why should I? This could be a trap.

    Hilda: Are you afraid?

The Trial

Director: Orson Welles

Language: English Release date: December 22, 1962

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