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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.
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Britney 2022-04-12 09:01:11
People's nightmares are like shadows in their lives, and they can only maintain their daily lives by pretending not to know. "I've always believed that it's better to know the truth than to live in ignorance, and now I should find out if I'm right. I no longer deny that I'm part of the world around me, even though we're different."
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Einar 2022-04-12 09:01:11
It is neither a biography showing life history nor a work adapted from Kafka's novels, but a fictional text that uses the guise of a political murder to peek into the soul of Kafka, the master of existentialism. The black and white clerks and big writers in reality, the colorful genocide machines in the nightmare, Kafka running at full speed under the street lights, the absurd horror is hidden in the surface calmness.
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Franz Kafka: I write by myself... for myself.
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Oscar: [to Kafka] Miss Rossman was here looking for you.
Ludwig: Gabriela.
Oscar: Do you know her?
Franz Kafka: Do you?
Oscar: Well, we saw her naked once.