At the beginning, the horror, suspense and horror are all there, and I thought I got the wrong disc at one time. Until the serious man in the office appeared, I was relieved, it was him, isolated, silent and sensitive Kafka trapped in his own world, although, this Kafka is not Pikafka.
Black and white film, the main line is the bizarre disappearance and death of Kafka's friends and colleagues. With the plot, Kafka was involved and was almost killed in the same way (a murderer covered in abscesses, scaring me. ), escaped the catastrophe and approached the truth, there seems to be some connection between the police and the castle. . . .
The entire film is clearly a fusion and interpretation of Kafka's biography and his unfinished novel The Castle. Symbols related to Kafka kept appearing: office clerks who were tired of their jobs, wrote and published in their spare time, mentioned that the novel being written was about a man who woke up deformed (The Metamorphoses), Twice engaged and then called off, instructing friends to destroy all his manuscripts if he died, father's control, lung disease, etc.
On top of the biography, some symbols in "The Castle" are subtly embellished: the castle that is so close but unreachable, the documents piled up like mountains, the castle can only be entered by being summoned, the two unreliable assistants ,etc.
In the novel "The Castle", K wandered to the end and failed to enter the castle. In the film, Kafka enters, and an uninhabited tomb is the entrance. The moment Kafka entered the castle, the black-and-white picture became colored, like returning from a dream to reality, but also like entering a dream from reality. Or death?
The gentlemen in the castle want to study people's brains. Those who are missing are brought into the castle as observation objects. After being killed, they will be thrown out of the castle and sentenced to suicide.
As supreme rulers, the gentlemen in the castle say they are not afraid of the public, because "the public is easier to control than the individual, and the public is unconscious. And the individual will always be in a state of doubt." They can't figure it out. Therefore, they opened a square mouth of the human brain and used a microscope to magnify the human brain countless times and project it onto the dome of the castle to observe.
Kafka said that it is because you cannot touch the soul of man through the microscope.
Finally, Kafka escaped from the castle, and at that moment, the picture-the world became black and white again.
Which world is Kafka really breathing?
"I write by myself... for myself."
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