Procès [The Trial] (1963)

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Here the guilty are condemned without trial - by themselves. In such cases, any acquittal can only ever be ostensible - until the next arrest on unspecified charges. Like the victims of sex, class and culture snobbery, the already-and-always-guilty are blamed for their victimhood so that the truly guilty can excuse their bad behavior through exculpation. Similarly, the immature victims are deemed to be doomed never to believe in themselves since those who claim the universe irrational are merely excusing their own irrationality. However, this is also true of people who make films like this.

Exploring the mind of a paranoid - raised to be guilty for uncommitted crimes - this offers no solutions just a vivid description of same. There is no justice in such a world only conspiracy theories and blaming others. The only defense possible here is that of growing up and facing the world that those who want you to be their sacrificial victim ignore. This surreal black comedy is all very well but really takes us nowhere except an aesthetic pleasure garden of black & white delights.

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