The Law Is a Metaphor for the Law

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"The law is a metaphor for the law," he says. "It's like being in a maze that there's just absolutely no way of escaping, right? It's completely indecipherable and you can't negotiate for it." The painter starts to shed a little bit of light on his own experiences as an innocent man who has been wrongly convicted or charged with something they didn't do.

David and Tamler conclude their discussion of "The Trial," Franz Kafka's darkly comic vision of an opaque and impenetrable bureaucracy that comes for us all in the end. Plus we interrupt our previously scheduled opening segment because apparently something happened at the Oscars last week.