A metaphorical comparison between Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru and its remake Living by Oliver Hermanus, presented at the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Bureaucracy is a clandestine power that subdues everyone, including governments, parliaments, dictators, kings, presidents. Preferred victims are ordinary, simple people. In front of the modules flattened like bureaucratic rifles, they are annihilated. La muerte de un burócrata by director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea tells of a heroic and terrible battle against the notorious bureaucracy.