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The Trial (1962)
★ 7.4 · 555 ratings on TMDB
The Most Remarkable Motion Picture Ever Made!
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
DirectorOrson Welles
The emergence reading
The Trial keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing law, bureaucracy, authority, justice, absurdity.
zero-distanceUSlawbureaucracyauthorityjusticeabsurdity
Also inFilms about justice
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)E10 · absurdity, authority
R.I.P.D. (2013)E8/E10 · authority, bureaucracy
Judge Dredd (1995)E8/E10 · authority, justice
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)E8/E10 · absurdity, authority
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)E8/E10 · authority, justice
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)E10 · authority, bureaucracySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
