Kafka (1991)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
No, this is not a biography of Franz Kafka or a part of a time of his lifetime. It seems that it is like a fictitious account of making Kafka-like a superhero in a setting reminiscent of his stories. Like in 'The Trial' he appears to be working in a large office doing purposeless paperwork. He looks like a bored reclusive office worker who finds more joy in his hobby, writing fictions between his free time and after-works. Incidentally, he is writing about a man who had transformed into a roach! (think 'Metamorphosis'). All through the film, he is writing a letter address to his mother, inking his thoughts and relationship with his father. In real life, Kafka's over domineering and aggressive father is said to have contributed to Franz's perpetual melancholic predisposition to life.
History has it that his mother, the weak one, never got around passing the contents of the letter to his father. Franz never resolves his issues with his father.
Jeremy Iron acts in this movie as the expressionless Kafka, who is embroiled in kind of resistance workers plotting a revolution in a small East European town. Something is happening up in the castle which is overlooking the town. Kafka interests the police when a fellow worker is found killed.
In a picturesque depiction of a black and white vision of old Gothic buildings and scenes reminding us of all Frankenstein movie, our hero sneaks into the castle to unravel its secrets. At the end of the show, Kafka starts coughing blood, just like Franz, who had TB.
A movie based loosely on Kafka's history and his stories.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
No, this is not a biography of Franz Kafka or a part of a time of his lifetime. It seems that it is like a fictitious account of making Kafka-like a superhero in a setting reminiscent of his stories. Like in 'The Trial' he appears to be working in a large office doing purposeless paperwork. He looks like a bored reclusive office worker who finds more joy in his hobby, writing fictions between his free time and after-works. Incidentally, he is writing about a man who had transformed into a roach! (think 'Metamorphosis'). All through the film, he is writing a letter address to his mother, inking his thoughts and relationship with his father. In real life, Kafka's over domineering and aggressive father is said to have contributed to Franz's perpetual melancholic predisposition to life.
History has it that his mother, the weak one, never got around passing the contents of the letter to his father. Franz never resolves his issues with his father.
Jeremy Iron acts in this movie as the expressionless Kafka, who is embroiled in kind of resistance workers plotting a revolution in a small East European town. Something is happening up in the castle which is overlooking the town. Kafka interests the police when a fellow worker is found killed.
In a picturesque depiction of a black and white vision of old Gothic buildings and scenes reminding us of all Frankenstein movie, our hero sneaks into the castle to unravel its secrets. At the end of the show, Kafka starts coughing blood, just like Franz, who had TB.
A movie based loosely on Kafka's history and his stories.
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