Word: kafka
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...late Italian Playwright Betti was obsessed by what he called "the bewildering incongruity that we see between our existence and what it ought to be according to the aspirations of our soul." Kafka was similarly obsessed, but he found the distance between God and Man unbridgeable, while Betti bridged it by daring to revert to orthodox Christian doctrine. Not a play to stir the passions or warm the heart but to disturb the mind and chill the soul, this exceptional off-Broadway production is an intellectual and spiritual jewel in the theater's cardboard crown...
...would be right. He must please not only his wife but placate the judgment of the sisterhood. Vassar's standards are high. One Vassar girl explains of her husband: "Freddy isn't an intellectual. But before we were married, we had an understanding that he should read Kafka and Joyce and Toynbee. Some of the basic books. So that semantically we would have the same referents...
...Silliphant's reluctance to write a script "unless there is a profound meaning." The meaning of Route 66, he says, has to do with "a search for identity in contemporary America. It is a show about a statement of existence. If anything, it is closer to Sartre and Kafka than to anything else. We are terribly serious, and we feel that life contains a certain amount of pain...
...make his point, and incidentally to make a motion picture which will hold the attention of his audience, Welles departs somewhat from the imagery of the book. Kafka created an atmosphere of horror by contrasting the strangeness of what happens to Joseph K. with the ordinariness of his surroundings, the matter-of-fact way all the characters, even K. himself, accept the fact that K. has been arrested but not charged. Welles creates an eerie world by changing the world itself, instead of relying solely on manipulating people and events. He uses the tools of his medium--sets, lighting...
...film is carried along by Welles' directing and Roger Corbeau's sets. The Trial manages to capture the bleak coloressness of Kafka's world: there is not a single tree in the movie; all the windows are frosted or look out on nothing; one gets the impression that even if the film had been shot in color, everything would still be gray and white. The camera seems to go beyond seeing: it touches, it breathes the dark air. Welles creates drama and visual beauty with the camera by moving it expertly. The sets are superb, from the defense lawyers cluttered...