Audience reviews
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liavslia
Watching Der Landarzt feels like falling headfirst into a fever dream. So basically, classic Kafka. I haven’t actually read the original story, but as a big fan of Kafka’s general vibe, this short animation absolutely nails what I imagine his writing feels like. It is surreal, disorienting, and deeply uncomfortable in a way that’s oddly satisfying.
The animation itself is experimental and unnerving, in the best way possible. It gives off a mix of Salad Fingers energy (if you somehow don't know what salad finger is please look it up on yt), a touch of Junji Ito, and something else entirely unique. As of right now I can't exactly compare it to anything and be 100% satisfied with my decision. It’s not horror, but it crawls under your skin and sits there.
One of my favorite things about Kafk…
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Watching this twisted acid-trip of Kafka’s story is like being dragged into the dark depths of someone else's fever dream that you didn’t sign up for. Now, sure, Kafka wasn’t exactly known for his sunny outlook on life, but this anime turns his bleakness up to eleven and then dials it right back down to “what the fuck was that?”
The animation style is, let’s be generous here, "surreal," which is just fancy talk for the visuals looking like they were dreamt up by a caffeinated toddler in the middle of the night. We get bizarre transformations, faces melting like wax, and expressions so vague you’re left wondering if you’re watching existential horror or an unfortunate PowerPoint presentation gone wrong. The characters? They’ve got all the depth and charm of undercooked tofu, just kind of f…
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Sometimes art is stunning to look at and engages the viewer by moving his heart into the right place.
Other times, the art is just ugly because of a lack of budget, vision, and capacity.
In a few cases, while the art might stunning, it just doesn't hit right. Kind of like a weird cacophonic symphony.
This is where Inaka Isha has come to die.
This (quite liberal) interpretation of Kafka's short story is weird, and not in a good sense. It's not ugly, it's not good, it's just off-putting and doesn't deserve 19 minutes of your time.
The story is barely non-existent, the same goes for the characters. But there must be some kind of pull, right? Some catharsis or something along those lines that justifies all of it.
Unfortunately for us, there is none. It's an exercise in style made for its…
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Story with the same name as the compilation of short narratives published in 1920. ''A rural doctor'' is incredible for some clear reasons: first, the story carries the typical Kafkaesque impotence, in which nothing can be done '' Only a doctor, only a doctor''. Nevertheless, this permeates the author's entire work, so the need to justify it for another reason: its explicit synthesis of the Kafkaesque universe, making dialogue with other of the narratives present in the same collection, because there is, at the same time, the theme of the visit, of isolation, and especially of the journey that never comes to an end. The category of the grotesque implies the creation of fantastic universes, the bizarre, and other strange ways of representing reality. In this sense, the artistic choice of th…
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So, the story is pretty straightforward but also kind of confusing if you're just looking for a light watch and since it was a short film, I wasn't expecting the weirdness of it all. Weird is almost an understatement.
I didn't read the story prior to watching, but I did read it afterwards and I was still left feeling underwhelmed with the story.
The animation is what keeps you interested to watch it. The art is beautiful in its absurdness and I think the art is the only thing that gives this story life -- I also think that it further aids the weirdness of the story in general.
Overall, I think it was an interesting watch nonetheless. I do feel like I needed knowledge of the story beforehand to real appreciate the short film and how it really brought a sense of eeriness that isn't fel…
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“I really want to scratch your eyeballs out.” — Terminal child
Not satisfied with the limited selection of the in-town whores, the Doctor (who?) decided to turn toward pedophilia — and LSD — to quell his pent-up sexual frustration; unfortunately, Gandhi (the child) wasn’t having any of it. Not easily deterred, the Doctor (seriously, who?) rubbed his wrinkly shlong all over an unsuspecting horse, in what can only be described as a bizarre case of sexual assault.
Franz Kafka, an Austrian-Hungarian writer, wrote A Country Doctor in 1917, during a period where he suffered from stress, migraines, depression, insomnia — SOCIALIST INFLUENCES — and anxiety. This explains why the main character, the Doctor, exhibited a psychosis of sorts, and seemed unable to rationalize in any coherent manner.…
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https://thespace.lrb.co.uk/article/a-country-doctor-by-franz-kafka-translated-by-michael-hofmann/
That's the link I used to read the story before hand as the other reviewer MechaRainbow suggested I do before hand, which I usually recommend but it doesn't really matter either way.
Pros: Abnormal story. Child choir.
Cons: Almost everything else.
~SPOILERS~ The anime follows the story pretty damn close but it doesn't make a weird stupid story and better. The fact that the animation is some fun house mirror room doesn't improve the story either. Um, not really worth watching.
How can i write a longer review when this episode is only 21 min long and total trash how long must it be.(4)
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Rate of 3
English subtitles
Story
what a mess. I got the basics but the why is a complete mystery for me. Maybe my mind is not capable of grasping the message and full plot but my word they could have tried harder to convey it in a more simpler manner.
Art
In relation to the concept of confusing and mind torturing the art did wonders. Along the art was an eye sore. It made me feel i was on drugs. Not a real nice feeling at all. In addition, why was it necessary?
Character
Basic at best. There was an attempt at expressing a further more enlighten approach on the main character and society as a whole but do to an intellect barrier i could not obtain it.
Enjoyment
those who are psychiatrists or have socialist degrees mind find this entertaining as for the rest it is just a mess.
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From the beginning of its great opening sequence, Inaka Isha catches its audience with a raw humanity right from "Go". This harrowing narrative acquaints us with an experience similar to Teshigahara Hiroshi's ' Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) or the opening scene of Alain Renais' Hiroshima, Mon Amour : we see beautiful animation in the way the snow envelopes the screen and in the sketchiness of the lines, making this seem more like a painting than an anime.
Also, pay attention to the wonderful shadow work in the left most corner of the screen, reminiscent of early silhouette work of Lotte Reiniger (also seen in the chorus of Revolutionary Girl Utena ).
As we are introduced to the character of the Doctor, by way of his two smaller, darker shelves who serve the film as narrators, he look…
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Making sense of Kafka`s work is difficult enough in its original form as prose, but trying to throw a theatrical spin on something as introspective as Country Doctor makes it even more confusing. The story starts with a distraught country doctor who`s horse has died the night before. His maid runs around town trying to borrow a horse so that the doctor might make his urgent appointment, but no one is willing. In frustration, the doctor kicks the door on his pigsty, and he finds a groom inside, and two horses as well. The groom prepares the horses but the doctor realizes he is after the maid, Rosa. Before the doctor can do anything, the groom sends the horses off, which basically teleports the doctor to the patient`s house, though it is supposed to be 10 miles away. This is but the beginnin…
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Franz Kafka's stories are known for their weirdness, and so it was inevitable that at least one would be adapted to anime, where a little bit of weird is the norm. ("The Metamorphosis" is available in graphic novel format) But I'm surprised that it's this story, of which I've never heard, was the one.
The story in "A Country Doctor" was hard to follow. Perhaps I'd understand it better if I read the story on which it's based. A lot of it is probably supposed to be metaphors for stuff. Like when one character suddenly bit another character; that's probably a metaphor for humans' cruel nature or some such thing.
The art may seem really odd for an anime. Characters are depicted with body parts growing larger, and instead of walking, swinging across the screen weirdly. (It's hard to describe…
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