For the record, Andrew Mathias is responsible for me writing reviews again. His are hilarious, go check them out. Anyways, I saw this directly after finishing the novel it is based on, Kafka’s The Trial. I understood some of the subtle liberties Welles took in adapting the novel, mostly consolidating characters and scenes to make it fit within a 2 hour film. One interesting difference is he made everything seem more grandiose, the novel describes the suffocating atmosphere of the…