Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque:

adj.

1. Of or relating to Franz Kafka or his writings.

2. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger: "Kafkaesque fantasies of the impassive interrogation, the false trial, the confiscated passport . . . haunt his innocence" (New Yorker).

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Towards a thematic adaptation... recontextualizing themes and atmosphere from Kafka's text for a modern audience... themes in Kafka's text fit the aesthetics of film noir, sharing similar traits. The paranoid 'wronged' protagonist, isolation, crime, entrapment, the femme fatale, a subjective point of view.... Psychological metamorphosis



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"You show the protagonist so that the audience can put themselves under the skin of the man. First of all, I use my camera in such a way as to show things, whenever possible, from the viewpoint of the protagonist: in that way the audience identifies itself with the character on the screen and thinks with him."

- Fritz Lang

Bogdanovich, P. (1967) Fritz Lang in America, Studio Vista