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The two most famous episodes of Kieslowski's 10-part series, "Decalogue V" ("Thou Shalt Not Kill") and "Decalogue VI" ("Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery"), were expanded to feature length for release as A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, but these original hour-long versions stand on their own as the most potent episodes of the series. In "Decalogue V," the faith of a young lawyer is shaken when he defends a man accused of the violent murder of a taxi driver. Like Tim Robbins's Dead Man Walking, it's a provocative attempt to reconcile the gap between murder and state-sanctioned execution, and Kieslowski pulls no punches on either side: the murder scene is excruciating in its relentless intensity. But as he looks through the eyes of the troubled attorney who suffers a crisis in faith, the film turns inward and becomes contemplative and personal. "Decalogue VI" is a touching and troubling story of a young, emotionally unstable postal worker who becomes obsessed with a promiscuous older woman. He steals her mail and peeps through her apartment window with a telescope, but when she returns the gaze the one-way relationship becomes much more complicated. Kieslowski gets under the skin of both characters as the older woman confronts the boy and shames him with loveless sex--and they come out the other end of the tale as humbled humans who take a harder look at themselves and a sympathetic second look each other. --Sean Axmaker
The two most famous episodes of Kieslowski's 10-part series, "Decalogue V" ("Thou Shalt Not Kill") and "Decalogue VI" ("Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery"), were expanded to feature length for release as A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, but these original hour-long versions stand on their own as the most potent episodes of the series. In "Decalogue V," the faith of a young lawyer is shaken when he defends a man accused of the violent murder of a taxi driver. Like Tim Robbins's Dead Man Walking, it's a provocative attempt to reconcile the gap between murder and state-sanctioned execution, and Kieslowski pulls no punches on either side: the murder scene is excruciating in its relentless intensity. But as he looks through the eyes of the troubled attorney who suffers a crisis in faith, the film turns inward and becomes contemplative and personal. "Decalogue VI" is a touching and troubling story of a young, emotionally unstable postal worker who becomes obsessed with a promiscuous older woman. He steals her mail and peeps through her apartment window with a telescope, but when she returns the gaze the one-way relationship becomes much more complicated. Kieslowski gets under the skin of both characters as the older woman confronts the boy and shames him with loveless sex--and they come out the other end of the tale as humbled humans who take a harder look at themselves and a sympathetic second look each other. --Sean Axmaker
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