Stanley, an unemployed young man with a passion for boxing who wants to improve his strength and stamina, is the focus of Kaufman's Game. When a stranger approaches him outside the gym and offers him a specially produced steroid, Stanley is drawn into the increasingly violent operations of a powerful organization, unwittingly entering a series of tests designed to prove his mettle. This is a film about power, willpower, and being your own worst enemy. It pays homage to classic film noir archetypes as well as Franz Kafka's dark, conspiratorial storytelling technique, but with a modern minimalist aesthetic.
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Stanley, an unemployed young man with a passion for boxing who wants to improve his strength and stamina, is the focus of Kaufman's Game. When a stranger approaches him outside the gym and offers him a specially produced steroid, Stanley is drawn into the increasingly violent operations of a powerful organization, unwittingly entering a series of tests designed to prove his mettle. This is a film about power, willpower, and being your own worst enemy. It pays homage to classic film noir archetypes as well as Franz Kafka's dark, conspiratorial storytelling technique, but with a modern minimalist aesthetic.
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