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
  • Marge 2022-04-19 09:03:17

    The urban style of Prague is definitely more flavorful than the "flowing feast" Paris. This protagonist also looks like Kafka.

  • Dariana 2022-04-11 09:01:07

    To directly and rudely interpret the castle as a totalitarian bureaucratic machine, and even let the protagonist enter the castle directly in the third act, which is equivalent to directly blocking the ambiguity of the concept of the castle - you must know that Kafka does not even have a castle. Clearly, what about being visible or even accessible? Moreover, the absurdity of "Castle" exists not only in the castle, but also in K; directly replacing the protagonist with Kafka and self-righteously applying the crude logic system that is almost binary opposition is simply a blasphemy to Kafka. . If it doesn't hang a Kafka's name, maybe the score can be higher; since it hangs, there is only one X.

Kafka quotes

  • Franz Kafka: So, that's who the enemy is. Policemen and file clerks. Law and order, you might say.

    Gabriela: You think what we're doing is wrong? What would you suggest, then?

    Franz Kafka: Did any of you actually go up to the castle with Edward? You sit around twisting the facts to suit your inbred theories. In my experience the truth is not... that convenient.

  • 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.