The Metamorphosis

One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes to find he has become a monstrous insect.

This is not a dream. Kafka offers no explanation and asks for none. The transformation is simply the condition from which the story proceeds — and what follows is more unsettling than the metamorphosis itself. A family reorganises around the fact of Gregor. Obligations shift. Affection calcifies. The man who once supported everyone becomes the thing that must be managed, hidden, and finally removed.

The Metamorphosis is a study in what happens when a person is no longer of use. It is precise, domestic, and without sentimentality. Kafka renders the absurd as administrative — the tragedy arrives not in catastrophe but in the slow adjustment of those left standing.

What the text asks is not why Gregor changed. It asks what was already true about the world he changed in.

Directed by André Agius.