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I love this film


Kyle MacLachlan was excellent as Josef K. I could really sense the pathos in his character.

And filming it in Prague made it even better. Prague is a city full of ghosts. Its a place that is, all at once, charming, morbid, beautiful and quaint.

This film did justice to Kafka.

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Kyle MacLachlan was born for this part and for David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. He fits like a glove.

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Could someone explain the movie to me? I just watched it and i'm soooo confused about the whole movie...like why he died in the end and stuff...

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My advice... read the book. It explains a bit more.

The film was about an individual fighting a heartless and soul less bureaucracy.

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I agree he was fantastic, have you seen and liked any other Kafka films ?

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What other Kafka films are there? I've only seen Welles' version of The Trial, which is really great.

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I saw a movie with the title Kafka with Jeremy Irons playing the title character. It was passible. I never saw the Orson Wells film but would like to. I do not know of any more films based on Kafka's work.

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Try to catch 'The Insurance Man' another Kafkaesque film with an early turn from Daniel Day Lewis.

Its that man again!!

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This movie is not bad since K was well played by MacLachlan but its music is distasteful...it reminded me of some mediocre European romantic movies, and The Trial has nothing to do with Romanticism. Orson Welles version on the other hand, made K a hero like Don Juan or Till from R.Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel, and the funny aspects of K's characteristic was interpreted by Anthony Perskins in a Jim-Carrey kind of way, which is HORRIBLE. But I do like Orson Welles' scene displays. So, in a word, forget about the movies and go back to Kafka's book, which is a real treasure of the 20th-century literature.

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I thought Kyle MacLachlan's acting was terribly woody, he doesn't catch his part at all.

Location is great, that's true. I do like the city. But on the whole this film was so bad, it felt like mockery to it's source and location.

Luckily it's an impossible task to spoil the great novel, even though this movie tried hard and came close.

I've seen so many films, but only few really made me feel bad spending money and time on them. This one did.

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