Joshua Booth- Decalogue

The film concerning “No other God before me” had a good theme within it. The Midrash is used to develop a moral principal that the boy should put nothing before God, including his father and all his father’s teachings. We all expected the boy to make it throughout the movie but he did not and we struggle to come up with a reason that he deserved to die. No one likes death and when it happens to the innocent young people in society it just naturally seems harder to overcome and to accept. The boy who is taught by his father to trust science, reason, and logic was unfortunately ultimately killed by this method although the aunt tried to convince the boy that God had an impact on everyone’s life and that the boy should have had more faith to lead him throughout life. It was sad that after all the work the father and son did together he still fell through the cold ice. I suppose this was the point of having no other Gods before me.

“Thou shalt not Kill” is a commandment that should only be used in context to certain situations. I feel as if you are in war or if you meet the killer of one of your family members I believe you should kill and if you don’t then you’re going to be killed although it does not always happen physically. The boy had many issues after the death of his sister and had lost touch with reality. He was feeling so much guilt he could no longer function with reality. He did not see the signs that God was actually with him every step of the way. He was trying to reach out and save him or even help him grow into a stronger person but the boy never realized it. He really had no reason to want to live and this ultimately killed him. He did not care if he was going to get away with it. He just reacted upon depression and sadness that he did not know how to channel the right way. The torment that the boy was suffering was seen vividly when the boy killed the taxi driver and how he did it displayed the boy’s darker side in which he was now apart of much more than before. Although the taxi driver was not the best of people he did not deserve to die. Since the boy made the decision to kill he deserves the consequence in which he earned.