Bringing to Life Morality of Antiquity
Based on the first commandment "I am the Lord Thy God, thou shall not put any other false gods before me", Krzystof Kieslowski's Decalogue 1 (1988) is a story of a father, Krzystof, who has more faith in computers and logic than in God and of his son, Pawel, curious about death and the existence of God. Krzystof calculated that the thickness of the ice at a nearby lake was thick enough to support Pawel's weight while he skated. However, proving his father's calculation wrong, Pawel goes skating and drowns by falling through cracked ice. As opposed to questioning Krzystof's lack of faith in God, the film challenges the notion of following a philosophical or religious group blindly.
While portraying characters in a natural setting, Decalogue 1 seeks to examine the problem of fundamental sin in ordinary people. By focusing on people in their home, Kieslowski illustrated moral conflict in a contemporary setting with relationships that......
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