I highly recommend this 10-part masterpiece for its pitch-perfect focus on character-driven dilemmas of modern morality which engage you without melodrama or artifice in a world devoid of mercy or hope. These tales of decent folks being slowly...
- 11.October.2009
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- by: Gertrude
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I highly recommend this 10-part masterpiece for its pitch-perfect focus on character-driven dilemmas of modern morality which engage you without melodrama or artifice in a world devoid of mercy or hope. These tales of decent folks being slowly crushed by the consequences of weakness could, however, push a suicidal viewer right over the edge and will break the heart of the most cynical viewer, so be forewarned.
- 11.October.2009
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- by: Gertrude
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This is a fantastic series. The actors, while not familiar, are absolutely superb. At no point does "acting" enter your consciousness while watching. Even if you are not a religious person, it is easy to appreciate how this series explores the...
- 18.September.2009
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- by: krummelk
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This is a fantastic series. The actors, while not familiar, are absolutely superb. At no point does "acting" enter your consciousness while watching. Even if you are not a religious person, it is easy to appreciate how this series explores the difficulty in how to live your life by the 10 commandment precepts. Thought provoking, brilliantly acted, and visceral. An absolute treat that will stay with you for a long time to come.
- 18.September.2009
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- by: krummelk
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The Decalogue is a remarkable triumph for Kiewslowski. For those familiar with the Three Colors Trilogy (Red, White, Blue), these short films have some similarities such as the intermingling of characters from one episode to the next and the...
- 16.September.2009
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- by: ntynes
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The Decalogue is a remarkable triumph for Kiewslowski. For those familiar with the Three Colors Trilogy (Red, White, Blue), these short films have some similarities such as the intermingling of characters from one episode to the next and the presence of voyeurs. But the Decalogue episodes are darker than the Trilogy and more raw. Kieslowski has said that the films are not so much based upon a Commandment as inspired by them as a whole. But some of these have a definitive viewpoint.
The Decalogue contains ten stories about the amazing complexities of life with a deliciously diffused religious subtext all explored by a group of characters unrelated but interconnected by a bleak Warsaw housing complex and its winter misery. Few of the stories could be described as upbeat, but they are life affirming.
The use of different cinematographers for all but two films in the series is a technique later applied in the creation of the Trilogy. Kieslowski remarked that bringing this 'new vision' onto the set each time helped keep things fresh, different yet still connected. The Decalogue reveals some of the initial sketching of Double Life of Veronique and his Trilogy masterpiece.
Kieslowski was a documentary filmmaker prior to his work in narrative cinema. His attention to detail is breathtaking. These films -- this 10-part treatise -- has moments of dullness, but only in that the minutiae of life, which we are well familiar, is examined, giving the stories a tremendously 'real' quality.
Some stories, like 'A short film about killing' and the 9th and 10th episodes, have such a strong narrative that they will be tremendously appealing to most everyone. And note that throughout each and every film is some truly stupendous acting; these actors are pitch perfect every time.
- 16.September.2009
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- by: ntynes
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