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Gritty action thriller starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as a reporter
trying to stop a serial killer. After discovering the dismembered
body of his girlfriend, crime journalist Lewis Hicks (Gooding)
finds a diary, seemingly left by the murderer, detailing a list of
his next victims and the gruesome methods he will use to kill them.
Realising his own name is on the list, Hicks must use all of his
experience to track down the serial killer in a desperate race
against time before the madman strikes again.
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of
nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just
what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from
even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it
will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing
tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of
disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last
resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature.
Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a
quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject?
The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant
culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's
struggle between his sense of independence and his need for
approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist,
victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally,
in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with
the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and
no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional
uncertainties and anxieties.
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