Episode Seven Decalogue

Episode Seven
Lauren Brooks
So this movie was by far one of my favorites out of the Decalogue so far. I loved the story line of the mother and daughter relationships and I even loved the parallel between the commandment and the situation the family was placed in. All of the people in the movie treated the child as an object and put there best interests before hers and in the end they all got hurt. The mother and father lost one daughter, the daughter lost her daughter, the real father lost his daughter, and the daughter lost her biological father and mother. Wow! These are the devastating consequences of stealing.
The only real confusing part I picked up on was the relationship between the girl and the teacher. It seems to me that the teacher really felt something for this girl and would have been willing to come to some sort of arrangement with the family, but at the same time social constraints seem to get in the way and govern most of the decisions made in the movie. So regardless of the feelings I guess they never could really have had a “happily ever after” sort of relationship.
It seems to me that the more we move along in the Decalogue the more it turns into a Soap Opera straight off of daytime television. These stories are only things that we imagine happening not things that actually happen in real life. But turn on the television or open up a newspaper and these things do happen. Think about it, where do the ideas for Grey’s Anatomy come from or Law & Order, there us a reason for the disclaimer at the beginning of these shows. Maybe these fictional shows are based off more reality than we think; it makes you wonder what story from your life could illustrate one of the 10 commandments……