![]() (A gigantic…what? Banana? Kangaroo?) After many ( many) drafts, Kafka looks down to find a hideous cockroach on his page – which he splats, before realizing that it is his inspiration. (Even if you don't know The Metamorphosis, we are given the full line at the very beginning of the film.) Constantly interrupted by the most normal of folks – a knife sharpener who has lost a little friend, a lovely woman downstairs whose party is making a bit too much noise, the proprietress of a joke shop who has misdelivered a package – Samsa finds himself utterly uninspired by everything around him. It’s Christmas and poor Franz Kafka sits alone in his room, an artist on the cusp of greatness, if only he can figure out the end of the line above. "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic…” ![]() Directed by Peter Capaldi, United Kingdom, 1994, 22 minutes.
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