Familiar with the 1963 Orson Welles film starring Anthony Perkins (not watched as of yet), I started this unaware of the book and its screen history. It's enthrawling right away but infuriating, and that's the emotion that you're supposed to feel, especially living in a country with very specific procedures for being arrested and charged with a crime. But this isn't the United States, and their rules are not our rules, and out of the blue a free man can become a victim of obvious injustice and not understand why.
As Joseph K., Kyle MacLachlan is obviously a privileged young man, calling for his servant and confronted by two men arresting him. He's basically under a strange house arrest, can go to work, but must come up with a way of defending himself, the only problem is that he's never presented with any crime that he's accused of. It could be as simple as accidentally sneering at some official, but they'd never tell him.
That's where the mystery comes in, and with cameo appearances by Jason Robards, Alfred Molina, Juliet Stevenson and Anthony Hopkins, he finds out very little and what he does makes him all the more frustrated. From what I can see this is an explanation of what can happen when people in power get out of control and can turn someone's life upside down for no reason and without justice. Considering that this novel is a hundred yearsold it is quite ahead of its time and definitely a warning. On that note, it's fascinating , but perplexing, and the result is a story that no one will agree on entirely. Definitely a piece of film that's worth seeing simply for discussion.
As Joseph K., Kyle MacLachlan is obviously a privileged young man, calling for his servant and confronted by two men arresting him. He's basically under a strange house arrest, can go to work, but must come up with a way of defending himself, the only problem is that he's never presented with any crime that he's accused of. It could be as simple as accidentally sneering at some official, but they'd never tell him.
That's where the mystery comes in, and with cameo appearances by Jason Robards, Alfred Molina, Juliet Stevenson and Anthony Hopkins, he finds out very little and what he does makes him all the more frustrated. From what I can see this is an explanation of what can happen when people in power get out of control and can turn someone's life upside down for no reason and without justice. Considering that this novel is a hundred yearsold it is quite ahead of its time and definitely a warning. On that note, it's fascinating , but perplexing, and the result is a story that no one will agree on entirely. Definitely a piece of film that's worth seeing simply for discussion.