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irrelevant to the writer
Ibrahim 2022-04-11 08:01:01
Find out that this film is compared with the idea of "Capote". It's just that although this film is also similar to the biography of the writer and also involves violent murder, it is completely different from the point of view of the theme. "Capote" focuses on an actual creative experience, a personal spiritual experience, and this film should be a life adventure fictionalized by the director, a revealing of the good and evil of human nature. "Castle" is Kafka's famous image, although I haven't read it, I suppose it should also symbolize imprisonment, closure and dictatorship. This film concretizes the image of the castle into a real thing, which is full of various dictators, conspirators, as well as the control methods of human nature and inhumane punishments. The outer town streets are also gloomy and dark, people are allowed to be anesthetized in the bars, and the secret police are hiding in the corners to keep an eye on the movements of the sober and resisters. The most shocking is of course the brainwashing experiment, but many facts in history can prove that this is not a sensational legend. Treating weak writers as lone heroes, of course, makes the film somewhat stereotyped, but this approach is still very successful. The conversion between black and white and color is so common these days. In my opinion, black and white in this film represents deception, while color represents the truth. In the end, although the male protagonist has learned the truth, he is well aware that the reality that the people are deceived cannot be. Change, but also willing to fall into that uncivilized chaos, and continue the life of drunken life.
Extended Reading
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Doctor Murnau: You despise someone like me - because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it.
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Youthful Anarchist: [discussing Kafka] How much have you told him?
Gabriela: He's a clerk; he knows nothing.
Mustachioed Anarchist: Eduard said he's a writer.
Youthful Anarchist: That could be useful.
Female Anarchist: That could be dangerous.