Episode Eight Decalogue

Episode Eight
Lauren Brooks
The best reoccurring frame in this movie is the crooked picture, hands down. I love that it’s always crooked and fixing it has become a part of her routine just like changing the flowers and getting the mail. Although I think the story is really interesting, I felt that the movie lacked something that I couldn’t really put my finger on. It was a little hard to follow the story and figure out the person who really bared false witness against whom. In the beginning it seemed really silly that someone might try to use their faith as a reason for not trying to help someone; especially during WWII but at the same time, it’s hard to know what people were feeling at that time.
No one can really deny the irony of the lady being an ethics professor or when she insists on her staying the night at her house. It’s like the first time she was denied that privilege, but now it is being extended to her again. I did think that the scene where the lady was lost in the alley at the house was too dark of a scene for this movie. It was very scary and in your face kind of scene that I wasn’t expecting for this episode. It seemed a little too intense, the old lady was freaking out when the lady was missing and the young lady was happy to watch from the shadows as she continues to look for her and basically freaks out to the point of knocking on stranger’s doors (and some sketchy strangers at that, lol) late at night to look for her. I guess the director wanted to portray the symbolism of having lost that girl and not knowing weather or not she survived. But in the end it seemed to dark. I just expected a better story and a better ending to the non-dramatic story line.