Eve Ingram- Decalogue
Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue is a film and a commentary on the Ten Commandment that walks the audience through each one with a different story and different dilemma. The first commandment, you shall have no other god before me, and the fifth commandment, you shall not kill, are the ones that are focused on. Midrash, or discovering the literal meaning of biblical text is prominent in these two films by making the meaning of the text personal to everyone. The first film shows humanity's relationship with technology and how they might revere it like a god. Visually, it shows a man and son running to the computer every day, inputting equations, completing household activities, and basing life off of algorithms. The man trusts the computer so much that he even trusted an algorithm to determine how thick the was on a lake so his son could skate. The joy on their faces and the son's impressed emotions bring into perspective how much we depend on and are in ...
