The Decalogue 1-
In this film we see the dichotomous relationship between faith and evidence. The protagonist, a mathematics professor sees the world through the eyes of logic and reason, and has very little use for faith in god or religion. What is ironic is that he puts his faith into the weather forecast and his own calculations to the point of his own son dying when he skates on ice that is too thin. He has become what he hates, a person so incapable at looking at the other side of an issue that they are blinded by their own unanalyzed faith.
The Decalogue 2-
This film asks the question is it ever right to kill? It shows how horrible murder is but also how equally horrendous the death penalty can be in response to that murder. The director emotionally drags us through the mud and while he never equivalates the two forms of death -the end result of the film that he wants us to take is murder is murder, killing is killing and it is never a completely justified thing. The act itself is perverse.
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