McKee's assertion that Kafka's story would be lost in film, but Orson Welles completely overturns this judgment with this film. The grotesque and indifferent atmosphere and the boundless despair are all created and handled just right. The coldness and helplessness scattered between the words in the original work are accurately displayed, and Anthony Perkins' performance is also very close to the original work. It can be said that for a famous book like "The Trial", an accurate copy is already excellent enough.
It's like the people and things around you are suddenly boring and strange enough to drive you crazy. I thought that everyone in the world was drunk and I woke up alone, but it turned out to be helpless and surrender under the oppression of the social environment. The light-transmitting door in Kafka's fable is close at hand, and your life is even engraved on the door, but you can only linger outside the door forever.
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