THE DECALOGUE is a film project by Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. It tells of the ten commandments. Ten commandments. Ten films. The first Decalogue, as all the others do, takes place in a compartmentalized little world. A father and son faun over their computer. It can shut off the water, lock and unlock the door, perform extremely complicated mathematic problems. The father is a professor of math at a local school, the son, bright and sunny as a child can be, shows interest in God, math, and spirituality. The crime committed, however, is this duo's trust in a God other than God. The duo put their trust in this emblem, and they are thus doomed. This is a sad film, but a great one. A man watches their plight from the shore of a frozen lake. He knows as we do the doom.
The Decalogue I: ★★★1/2
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