for whom the jackdaws sing

Wade 2022-04-11 09:01:07

Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka" is not like an autobiographical documentary. Its picture quality is black and white and then color. It seems to be in line with the absurd and bizarre plot: all those who enter the castle will eventually be "brainwashed" , and become undifferentiated beings.

Because the collective is unconscious, and the individual is always in a state of doubt.

The only Kafka-related imagery is that of

him, with the title of Doctor of Laws, ghostly walking through an old Gothic church to work at the Bureau of Labor Insurance;

there, he is gloomy and reserved. He will not be flattering, nor will he take the initiative to communicate with people. "Kafka" means "jackdaw" in Czech. He is really like a cold crow on Prague Square;

he has been pursuing freedom and love all his life. He has been engaged three times and cancelled all of them. When he meets someone who is united by love, he is on his deathbed.

He suffered from tuberculosis. Even if the blood he coughed up stained the handkerchief, he still wrote non-stop, and the quality was very high, such as "Metamorphosis", "Castle" and so on.


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Milan Kundera said of Kafka in The Art of the Novel: "The novelist demolishes the house of his life in order to build another house of masonry - the house of his novel." good, isn't it? Kafka was a man who made writing his only one.

I often feel that modern people are too comfortable to write when we are healthy.

He's weird again. In the movie, he said to his friends: "If I don't come back this time, please burn what I wrote."

Because he felt "I write by myself...for myself".

Write for myself, alone Explore the tunnels of life. Write for yourself, turn your back to the reader, and stay away from the panic of the crowd.

He is the land surveyor K in "The Castle". No matter how he walks, he is still excluded from the castle and has to wander on the edge.

Without redemption, I hope to understand the importance of life.

However, everything did not go as he "wish". After his posthumous manuscript was published, it immediately caused a sensation, like a beam of bright light, illuminating the slightly dim literary world at that time.

A lot of people go too far ahead, they are alone. Time flies, like a microscope, one after another fresh souls are discovered and recognized, such as Van Gogh, such as Kafka...

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

    Why must Kafka be used?

  • Dahlia 2022-04-11 08:01:01

    Dear Father, I cannot deny now that I am part of the world around me, even though we are different.

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?