The Trial (1962) Reviews & Ratings

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The Trial reviews

The Trial holds a 7.4/10 average from 590 TMDB ratings.

There is something really quite terrifying about the scenario in which "Josef K" (a career-best performance from Anthony Perkins, I think) finds himself in this rather sinister thriller. He is awakened one morning to find the police in his bedroom. He is arrested and told he is to stand trial. For what, you might think? Well, that's what he wonders too - and every effort he makes to establish just what he is suppose…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

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— CaseyReese (10/10)

The Trial: Welles's Brilliant Exposition of Guiltless Guilt Orson Welles's "The Trial" exists in a lineage of dystopian narratives that includes Kafka's original text of the same name, George Orwell's "1984", and Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" film - all works that explore bureaucratic dehumanization and the absurdity of institutional power. If the first layer of the film reveals bureaucratic absurdity and inaccessible ju…
— badelf (10/10)

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

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