Das Schloß

Conveys the absurd, surreal and uncanny sense that the issue at stake is not just the enervating and absurd character of bureaucracy, but the problem of being before a door that never opens, not just of the law but of desire, and where, even though what one believes one wants seems to be right there waiting to be plucked, somehow what one gets is never quite the object of one’s desire, every decision ends up sending us back towards a horizon one can never approach, and to uncertainty about whether we even have a clue about what we want, the consequence being a loss of sleep, and therefore of dreams, this amounting to a situation that is bound to end up as fatally entropic – except that one never gets to that ending either, because even if everything is destined to come to a stop, nevertheless, as far as our experience is concerned, everything must always remain unfinished. Quite a successful adaptation, but the actor playing K. is about a decade too old.