Thus marks the Halfway point of The Decalogue, as painful as it can be i cannot look away. The masochist within wishes to blaze through and i indulge him like a single woman and her cats. It doesn't take a wise man to figure out where this film is going early on, what the main theme will be, character fates. It's Hitchcock's bomb under the table technique getting me again. The fact that you know it's going to happen, makes it ten times more tense. Where, Why, Wha- oh. In fact i have come to love this sort of technique, the impending doom and dread, the agitation, the unease, these are a few of my favorite things.

Surely i am…

You always see execution chambers in movies as these grim, dark sets that are constantly waiting to their next victim. You never see who sweeps the floor or tidies the curtains. Who'd have thought that would make it even more haunting? This film's structure is beautiful, perfectly mirroring an individuals contemplative, sadistic plotting of murder to the same methodical killing machine that is the death penalty. The movie cuts out the trial that one might expect to be the heart of the film to avoid getting us too invested in logistics, forcing us to focus on the moral elements. This is pure visual storytelling, what we see is what we get. The morbid voyeurism lets us serve as silent witness…

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Killing takes on a rather simple narrative to outline a much larger critique. In doing so, it projects a pronounced degree of pathos that could only result from the hard work and passion of such a visionary artist. Indeed, this film - particularly its final third - presents one of the most harrowing downward spirals that I have witnessed on film. It is an evaluation on shallow human assumption and overarching bleakness of the human condition that we all seem to take for granted. As an extension of a chapter from his Decalogue, Kieslowski takes this tendency, and magnifies it in the form of a few character studies, presented with the 90-minute frame of…

Grim, uncompromising, opaque: these are the first words that come to mind when viewing Kieslowski's "A Short Film About Killing." One of two full length films to emerge from his famous "Decalogue", this film focuses on the dark side of human nature. No attempt is made to balance the scales with any glimmer of hope and Kieslowski is relentless in achieving his goal. The film is about 3 polish men and how their fates are intertwined. The murders, one the cause of spontaneous violent desire and the other a calculated act of the state, are both agonizing to watch. The audience is given no heroes to root for or villains to wish ill upon. Instead, Kieslowski wishes to show the…

Zapravo, moglo bi se reći da ovo gledam drugi put, jer am gledao pola sata kraću verziju u sklopu Dekaloga (Dekalog 5).
Petica mi je uz šest i deset omiljeni dekalog, tako da sam imao volje pogledati ovu dulju verziju.
I GLE ČUDA: rula mi još više!
Jako mi se sviđa Kieslowski i to njegovo "obični Poljaci u komunističkom režimu" izdrkavanje, taj kurac mogu progutati u bilo koje doba dana ili noći! Zakon.
Kako je jeben ugođaj, savršeno. Toliko jeben da mi je posljednjih pola sata filma, onih u zatvoru, bilo tako neugodno, posebno kod finalnog akta. (BTW, kapanje fekalija je rulalo <3 :))) )
Dok sam gledao film mislio sam kako ću sve događaje lijepo iskomentirati, ALI TRENUTNO ME…

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Killing takes on a rather simple narrative to outline a much larger critique. In doing so, it projects a pronounced degree of pathos that could only result from the hard work and passion of such a visionary artist. Indeed, this film - particularly its final third - presents one of the most harrowing downward spirals that I have witnessed on film. It is an evaluation on shallow human assumption and overarching bleakness of the human condition that we all seem to take for granted. As an extension of a chapter from his Decalogue, Kieslowski takes this tendency, and magnifies it in the form of a few character studies, presented with the 90-minute frame of…

Thus marks the Halfway point of The Decalogue, as painful as it can be i cannot look away. The masochist within wishes to blaze through and i indulge him like a single woman and her cats. It doesn't take a wise man to figure out where this film is going early on, what the main theme will be, character fates. It's Hitchcock's bomb under the table technique getting me again. The fact that you know it's going to happen, makes it ten times more tense. Where, Why, Wha- oh. In fact i have come to love this sort of technique, the impending doom and dread, the agitation, the unease, these are a few of my favorite things.

Surely i am…

Lyrical indictment of the death penalty. Kieslowski draws the lines between the doomed misanthrope and the troubled and equally doomed child masterfully and mostly through visual terms (all of the red versus/plus green stuff is excellent), his and Piesiewicz's great dialogue helps too. And, naturally, beautiful cinematography and music from Idziak and Preisner respectively. It's been under a year since I saw Decalogue 5 but I can't say I could pinpoint where the story was expanded/contracted/changed. Definitely recognized some images though.
Finally, this is probably just because I watched this this week too, but it's a link I thought was interesting enough: this is kind of the inverse of Anatomy of a Murder? A Short Film About Killing is incredibly…

Zapravo, moglo bi se reći da ovo gledam drugi put, jer am gledao pola sata kraću verziju u sklopu Dekaloga (Dekalog 5).
Petica mi je uz šest i deset omiljeni dekalog, tako da sam imao volje pogledati ovu dulju verziju.
I GLE ČUDA: rula mi još više!
Jako mi se sviđa Kieslowski i to njegovo "obični Poljaci u komunističkom režimu" izdrkavanje, taj kurac mogu progutati u bilo koje doba dana ili noći! Zakon.
Kako je jeben ugođaj, savršeno. Toliko jeben da mi je posljednjih pola sata filma, onih u zatvoru, bilo tako neugodno, posebno kod finalnog akta. (BTW, kapanje fekalija je rulalo <3 :))) )
Dok sam gledao film mislio sam kako ću sve događaje lijepo iskomentirati, ALI TRENUTNO ME…