Kafka

Isai 2022-04-11 09:01:07

It's not a complete biopic, but it does a good job of Kafka. The film begins with the disappearance of one of his few friends. The director takes us step by step to gradually understand Kafka. As Kafka has called off his engagement three times in this film, he also insinuates Kafka many times. His works, such as castles, trials, verdicts, and some famous quotes... When Kafka entered the castle, the picture changed from black and white to color, which was like his delusional world. As Kafka said in the film, he described these ...and the director used this color shift to express Kafka's absurd fantasy world. Maybe Kafka also only has fantasy worlds in color.
The truth that the film draws out step by step is so cruel, this dark, corrupt politics is also often metaphorical in Kafka's work. I haven't read Kafka's work, and in my opinion this work not only expresses "Kafka" very well, but also is not as boring as a traditional biopic.

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  • 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

  • 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?

  • Burgel: [sarcastically, as Franz shows up for work] But Kafka, you're... on time!