In this list there are some movies just inspired by Kafka’s poetics (in the atmosphere, in the construction, in the situations) or based on his works (sometimes a novel, sometimes just a phrase). The entire world collapses and every little thing, political (especially bureaucracy) or private is transformed, exaggerated and distorted by Kafka’s magnifying glass, through which he observes us all as if we were an ants’ nest, concentrating on one particular ant, observing it, until sun rays burn it down. The strangest thing in his literature is that, in spite of the absurd situations the characters are forced to live, they do not perturb them and they deal with them as if they were commonplace. He uses these feelings so the reader can be shocked by the cruelty of the world and of society, but, most of all, by man, who built the two, and who is shown as what he really is: an insect. His novels and short stories are filled with anxiety, surrealism and persecution. For those who don’t know, Franz Kafka is one of the major authors of the 20th century.
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