This essay analizes how the movie "Kafka" is Kafkaesque. That is to say how the movie conveys the theme that Kafka puts out in his works, esp. in The Metamorphosis.

In the formation of the movie "Kafka", the creators did as much as they could to make it Kafkaesque. For something to be Kafkaesque it must first of all have a sense of obscurity and/or surrealism. One can plainly see that this is true by reading any of his work, in particular "The Metamorphosis." Also part of the definition of Kafkaesque are: comic absurdity, weariness of routine or meeting peoples expectations alienation, disconnectedness and …

…be transformed into this beast of a man that will do anything, even commit murder, for a small vial of what we can only assume is drugs is ludicrous. Another defining aspect of something that is Kafkaesque is its weariness of routine, or the general humdrum of life. Most of this facet of Kafkaesque takes place in Kafka's office. The first being the repetition of the employees punching in at the beginning of the workday.