Orson Welles’ film The Trial (1962) is based on a book of the same name by Franz Kafka. The story follows a man named Josef who is charged with a crime but does not know what it is. He is allowed to work and go about his life during the day, never detracting from his input to capitalism. However, he is eventually sentenced to death and killed: he never discovers his crime. My retreatment relates his experience to Fredric Jameson’s text on late capitalism and postmodernism. The text was rich with concepts and potential perspectives to analyze the film through, but what stood out to me was the idea that the postmodern built environment is out of scale with the human occupant and represents a greater confusion with one’s place in society.