The Trial

The Most Remarkable Motion Picture Ever Made!

Plot Summary

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

bureaucracy

based on novel or book

court

society

sexuality

paranoia

dystopia

fascism

surreal

surrealism

trial

confusion

judgment

hegemony

church

interrogation

courtroom

oppression

uncle nephew relationship

oneiric

discrimination

guilty conscience

power relations

hierarchy

painter as artist

accusation

legal system

judicial system

anxious

office worker

franz kafka

law

ambiguity

surrealistic

enigma

social absurdity

ambiguous

human & society