Episode Three Decalogue

Episode Three
Lauren Brooks
This movie dealt with the keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. It was also really hard to watch this man leave his wife and children on Christmas Eve to go and look around town for the husband of his past mistress. Not only did he abandon his family but he also told extensive lies to keep his going out a secret and all for nothing. The husband wasn’t even missing and they had been searching for him in vain the whole night. The mistress also told her fair share of lie’s to keep the man with her until the end of the night. But at the very end of the movie she states that if she couldn’t have made it to the end of the night with him she would have killed herself. So was it worth it for the man to betray his family, but more importantly he betrayed space and time. It was Christmas Eve’s!! One of the most sacred and holy days of the year and he was disgracing it by leaving his family.
It reminds me of the many time’s in films when the setting is in a church, known as a sacred space, and someone curses or shouts to God; they are immediately punished and scolded for there wrongdoing and reminded that they are on sacred ground. This man was not necessarily on sacred ground but he was in sacred time, no matter what he was doing he should have been honest with his family and figured out some sort of solution. Honesty always has to be the best policy.