the title "The Trial" must be a reference to Kafka's novel. the protagonist Josef K lives in a dystopian state in which tyranny is maintained by all-pervasive surveillance, leading to increasingly absurd complications. merely getting to trial can indeed seem to take "a lifetime," and expecting a fair trial would be regarded as naivete.
in Brendan Perry's treatment of these themes, I suspect he intended to comment on more-recent political developments, not merely to recapitulate Kafka. in this he would seen to be prescient.
(BTW, a band--which also happened to be based in the UK--was called Josef K, and my username is partially a tribute to a Josef K song...but that's another story)
the title "The Trial" must be a reference to Kafka's novel. the protagonist Josef K lives in a dystopian state in which tyranny is maintained by all-pervasive surveillance, leading to increasingly absurd complications. merely getting to trial can indeed seem to take "a lifetime," and expecting a fair trial would be regarded as naivete.
in Brendan Perry's treatment of these themes, I suspect he intended to comment on more-recent political developments, not merely to recapitulate Kafka. in this he would seen to be prescient.
(BTW, a band--which also happened to be based in the UK--was called Josef K, and my username is partially a tribute to a Josef K song...but that's another story)