The movie Kafka by Steven Soderbergh identifies how the main character, Kafka, is struggling between two opposing ideas. In the movie, Kafka has been asked to join a secret group set to bring down the happenings inside the nearby castle by planting a bomb. He has two choices. First of all he can decide to go with it and join the revolutionaries fight, or he can choose to ignore it and try to blend in with normal society as well as he can. It’s these two opposing influences that Kafka is forced to make a decision about.
Kafka is pulled into the anti-castle world when his best friend Eduard is murdered. As a result of this a secretary at his job, who is in on the whole thing, approaches him to get him to join her group. Kafka is intrigued and wants to meet the gang, but he is not sure if he wants to go all in.
Once Kafka realizes that the group he has been inducted into wants him to go inside the castle and plant a bomb he pulls away as much as he can. It is this pulling away that may have saved his life. The rest of the group is murdered but because Kafka wasn’t there he gets away to eventually fight the fight against the castle and accomplish the goals of the group he once tried to get away from.
Kafka is torn between two sides of a conflict and he is not sure which way to go, at first he is drawn in but realizes the goals and pulls himself back. After some time Kafka realizes that if he wants to continue to live he must join the group in full force and help them out with their biggest achievement. That is killing the enemy before they kill you.
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