Dekalog, jeden
- Episode aired Dec 10, 1989
- TV-MA
- 55m
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8.5/10
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A woman worries about her nephew's spiritual education, whose life and his father's are run on their home computer.A woman worries about her nephew's spiritual education, whose life and his father's are run on their home computer.A woman worries about her nephew's spiritual education, whose life and his father's are run on their home computer.
Magdalena Mikolajczak
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- GoofsIn the scene where Krzysztof is in the bathroom and looks in the mirror to see the ambulance, the top of the head of the camera operator is also visible in the mirror.
- Quotes
Computer: I am ready _
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Decalogue 1
Decalogue: One, The (1989)
**** (out of 4)
The first film out of ten tells the story of a father (Henryk Baranowski) and his son (Wojciech Klala) who do everything they can together. The father teaching his son that any of life's problems can be solved through mathematics and that there can be done on their high tech computer. One day the son finds his Christmas gift, a pair of skates, and asks his father if he can go out on the lake. The father does the math on the computer and determines that the ice is strong enough to hold his son and lets him go but soon something isn't right. This first film is centered around the verse "I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt have no other God but me" and it's really interesting how the director/writer uses this popular commandment and yet doesn't tell the story in a traditional way. This was the first film I've seen from the director so I'm really not sure if this was the right place to start or not but this film certainly leaves an impression on a new viewer. I've seen countless films that deal with religion but never one as unique as this one here because the usual way a religious story is told isn't found here as this work comes off totally original and unlike anything I've seen before. I think everyone can read that verse and decide what it means yet the way everything is handled here just makes that saying even more interesting. One could debate how the father was bringing his son up in comparisons to how his sister (Maja Komorowska) would do the job. There are so many calm and quiet moments in this film that it's easy not to pick up on the power behind them. The most noticeable sequence is the mysterious man (Artur Barcis) seen sitting besides the lake. An even more powerful scene happens when the father spills some ink. You can say the spilling of the ink means nothing yet the director gets the point he wants to make across so perfectly that it comes off quite chilling. The performances from the three stars are incredible to say the least and that's certainly true for the young boy who is extremely remarkable considering his young age. There are many entertaining or great films that hit you while you watch them but later the movie just fades from your memory. This one here is the type that you might not realize how powerful it is until minutes, hours or even days later when the memory is still with you and you come to see and feel new things about it. I'm only minutes away from the movie coming to an end and its impact is just slipping into me.
**** (out of 4)
The first film out of ten tells the story of a father (Henryk Baranowski) and his son (Wojciech Klala) who do everything they can together. The father teaching his son that any of life's problems can be solved through mathematics and that there can be done on their high tech computer. One day the son finds his Christmas gift, a pair of skates, and asks his father if he can go out on the lake. The father does the math on the computer and determines that the ice is strong enough to hold his son and lets him go but soon something isn't right. This first film is centered around the verse "I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt have no other God but me" and it's really interesting how the director/writer uses this popular commandment and yet doesn't tell the story in a traditional way. This was the first film I've seen from the director so I'm really not sure if this was the right place to start or not but this film certainly leaves an impression on a new viewer. I've seen countless films that deal with religion but never one as unique as this one here because the usual way a religious story is told isn't found here as this work comes off totally original and unlike anything I've seen before. I think everyone can read that verse and decide what it means yet the way everything is handled here just makes that saying even more interesting. One could debate how the father was bringing his son up in comparisons to how his sister (Maja Komorowska) would do the job. There are so many calm and quiet moments in this film that it's easy not to pick up on the power behind them. The most noticeable sequence is the mysterious man (Artur Barcis) seen sitting besides the lake. An even more powerful scene happens when the father spills some ink. You can say the spilling of the ink means nothing yet the director gets the point he wants to make across so perfectly that it comes off quite chilling. The performances from the three stars are incredible to say the least and that's certainly true for the young boy who is extremely remarkable considering his young age. There are many entertaining or great films that hit you while you watch them but later the movie just fades from your memory. This one here is the type that you might not realize how powerful it is until minutes, hours or even days later when the memory is still with you and you come to see and feel new things about it. I'm only minutes away from the movie coming to an end and its impact is just slipping into me.
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