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Kafka
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Deaux
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Let me begin with the praise: This film is beautiful. The cinematography is superb. The sets and computer graphics are excellent and completely continuous. The score is subtle and powerful. Charlie Deaux took a lot of cues from Eraserhead.
Other than the visuals, however, there is not much to this short film. There are a lot of images in the work that are beautiful in their own right but only distracted me from the film. For example, toward the end of the piece, there are shots of laborers and a portrait of well dressed men. Those shots could have become segments that could have expanded (or even created any amount of) depth to the characters. In fact, some of these sequences were longer in the trailer, from which you can absorb all of the plot that is in the full short.
The piece only references Kafka's In the Penal Colony (upon which it was based) in a very superficial way (some of the objects in the film are similar to those in the short story). I have read reviews of this film that claim that the content of the film is the mood it creates, just as Kafka's works did, but this film's mood has nothing to do with Kafka's. The dialogue is trite and overly "dark" and unconvincingly intellectual for the sake of being edgy.
But the thing that bothered me the most about this film was the editing. As I mentioned before, there are pieces that seem to have been completely edited out, and there are pieces that seem to have been edited in for the sake of self-indulgence. The most beautiful shots were edited into split second images.
I would compare this piece to Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny, which was also a technical achievement for the sake of technique.
All in all, very very beautiful, but completely lacking in content.