The first of the Decalogue’s is to represent the first commandment ‘thou shall have no other gods before Me’. In this film, you see Pavel’s father who is obsessed with technology and amongst that his computer. Instead of having faith in God, he puts all his faith in science. If there is something that makes no sense scientifically, then it makes no sense to him. Pavel is a young boy and wants to know more about faith, life, and death, but his father is unable to inform Pavel forcing him to turn to his aunt. When Pavel asks his father what happens when you die, he is unable to give Pavel the answer he was looking for and instead answers scientifically.
The main points in the film is when Pavel’s father uses his computer to find an equation about the sturdiness of the ice. Pavel wants to go ice skating and after finding the equation, Pavel’s father allows him to go. When people begin to come up to Pavel’s father asking him where Pavel is because something tragic has happened he answers sure that Pavel is safe. To me, it seemed as if in the back of Pavel’s fathers mind he was thinking that it could very well be Pavel who was in danger, but he is not allowing himself to think this way. His computer did state that Pavel was safe so there was no way that something bad could have happened to him, right? God works in mysterious ways. In this film, God was seen as the homeless looking man who was shown randomly throughout the movie.
I think one of the main lessons from this film is that contrary to some humans beliefs, humans do not control everything. Some things are simply out of reach and impossible to do. In Kieslowski’s films, he wanted to make a film that did more than just repeat the 10 Commandments and I think he did an amazing job showing that. Pavel’s father seems to use the computer to make sense out of everything he does. However, this should not be done. “Thou shall have no other gods before Me”.
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