Kafka's Castle

Vivianne 2022-04-11 08:01:01

The director is Capricorn Soderbergh, and the heroine is beautiful.

The black and white and gray three-color movie images are like the texture of film, and we are more likely to use this as an opportunity to enter the gloomy and heavy world of Kafka; of course, occasionally because of the strong contrast with reality, it is easier to withdraw from the environment. individuals to rational reflection.

The high-saturation three-color allows us to pay more direct attention to the action details and character expressions that the director wants to present. Combined with the sound of the tiny objects in the picture and the tight circling background music, we can feel the absurdity of the world and the tension and fear of the individual. feel.

The exaggerated deformation of the projection makes people feel hesitant and panic.

The old-fashioned architecture of the early days, the modern people who are bound by the system and move in a hurry, the characters and dialogues of mysticism, are dull and depressing.

In Kafka's dream, the protagonists are endowed with the guilt of the characters. They are cautious but are constantly deceived, mocked and insulted. Behind the weak individuals is the metaphor of the ubiquitous, huge and indifferent society - the castle.

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Extended Reading
  • Ethel 2022-04-22 07:01:58

    I think I am ignorant. The first time I came into contact with a political thriller, the last time I watched "Inglourious Basterds" was the first time I came into contact with the aesthetics of violence. The soundtrack and color transitions are a highlight. Mind control authority, a topic that is easy to come into contact with recently, the "1Q84" just introduced and watched has more or less such a mood. The rules have changed, adapt or resist?

  • Doris 2022-04-11 08:01:01

    The director does not seem to have any intention of blurring the truth and fiction of the film's story, otherwise the ending should have made some changes in terms of color and so on. However, the film integrates Kafka's life story with the content of several novels he wrote, the intersection of reality and literature, and puts Kafka's different novels in the same dystopian world at the same time, which can be said to be very interesting. .

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?