Like A Dog Film Analysis

“Like a Dog”: Novel vs Film The Trial, written by Franz Kafka, is a novel about a banker named Joseph K. who is being arrested in his own room. He is arrested in a very suspicious way without knowledge of his charges. Although K. has been arrested he can go about his daily routines with the occasional visits to court. As the case goes through, K. meets many women who seem to be attracted to him. The case seems to become irrational and surreal causing K. to slowly lose his grip on reality. Realizing that everyone around him is corrupted K. becomes frustrated, because he has to helplessly defend himself in court. In the end two wardens kill him with a knife. Because some things changed between the novel and the movie, a different perspective …show more content…
The different ends that both of these pieces contained really influence the concept of the story. In the novel, K. ends by being killed with a knife to the heart while in the film he is killed with dynamite in a little cave. This shows how the surrounding changes. In my point of view, the end of the novel seems more conventional because K. was fighting to defend his innocence the whole story, and that makes him seem like a hero. On the other hand, K. seems weaker in the end of the movie because he doesn’t do anything to safe himself. The overall environment of the movie gives an impression that K. was looking forward to his own death. Also, I think that the different endings show how in one version the wardens are brave and confident, and in the other are cowardly. In the novel, the wardens just kill K. while in the movie they are not brave enough to kill him, and they just go away and throw him the dynamite. The very controversial and important phrase that K. says at the end “Like a dog!” (229), which to me, shows how he compares himself to an animal because he is treated like such, and ultimately is killed like …show more content…
has with women are different concepts in both of these pieces. In the novel, I find K. more in a passive way to women. He eventually has contact with women but not in an active way like he does in the film. In the film, the fact that K. has so many women attracted to him makes him seem more sexually activate. The relationships that K. has with women are a source of more guilt and that is why in the film he is weaker. While in the novel the relationships with women are not a big deal to him, in the film they are actually trying to improve his case. In the movie, the women are seen as a tramp and a weakness to K. Also, the special relationship that K. has with his neighbor Miss Burstner is completely changed. In the novel, Miss Burstner is supposed to be a stenographer meanwhile in the film she is converted to a dancer at a nightclub. That changed makes her more attracted to K., so that is why he feels guilty when the wardens are in her room moving her stuff. In the piece of Kafka, those scenes are not deeply involved and showed to the reader. In contrast, in the movie the scenes with women are mostly the ones who have importance and give information to the watchers. In the novel, when K. goes to Miss Burstner’s room, the intention of K. is to make himself seem innocent to the fact that the wardens were there before in the morning. That is why he states, “You must picture to yourself where the various people are, it’s very