Joseph Kilian

“What is a five letter word meaning the difference between man and animal?” “Logic?” “No, order!” Allegorical film A Character In Need of Support focuses on the human obsessiveness with order, which makes humankind bitter and apathetic. The main character of the film is a man who one day borrows a cat and the second day struggles to return it to avoid being sanctioned, living through an endless drama. The lending office is nowhere to be found and so the man walks through a maze of corridors, waiting rooms, and offices with a cat in his briefcase only to in the end get used to his burden.