Being a moderate fan of Kafka, I really dug the style and execution of the movie in making a biography in the style of his own art. This movie is not married to truth, rather getting lost in the same paranoid bureaucratic mazes as his characters. I’m down for more biopics if it meant these artistic embellishes on the truth, which seem to bring out a deeper truth about who he was on the inside. From this movie, his writing was far less than fiction, but depicting the world around him, which is both overwhelming and scary. It is really interesting how he decided to stay apolitical in such totalitarian times, yet his writing so much reflects the repression and fear of the time. This had everything going for it but didn’t quite stick the landing for me, but to be fair I never got to the end of a Kafka book, so I don’t know if those endings are satisfying or if most of the appeal is the journey through.
Being a moderate fan of Kafka, I really dug the style and execution of the movie in making a biography in the style of his own art. This movie is not married to truth, rather getting lost in the same paranoid bureaucratic mazes as his characters. I’m down for more biopics if it meant these artistic embellishes on the truth, which seem to bring out a deeper truth about who he was on the inside. From this movie, his writing was far less than fiction, but depicting the world around him, which is both overwhelming and scary. It is really interesting how he decided to stay apolitical in such totalitarian times, yet his writing so much reflects the repression and fear of the time. This had everything going for it but didn’t quite stick the landing for me, but to be fair I never got to the end of a Kafka book, so I don’t know if those endings are satisfying or if most of the appeal is the journey through.
