If you imagine you are alive, if you assume you exist, then you have to spend some time with Kieslowski. This means, since he no longer is accessible in the flesh, one should and would have to spend some time with his works – specifically all the ten Decalogue series.
Having said that and after watching A short film about killing {1988}, a denunciation for all types of killing drapes the mind – whether the killing is in the form of an act of senseless brutal murder or an organized and legal murder committed by the authorities to punish and perhaps restrain murder or any other form of horrendous crime. Killing is killing – in any form or act and this denunciation emerges as a bleak and depressing reality when faced with existence.
Kieslowski has succeeded in showing us how disgusting murder is. There is no explanation as to why the killer murdered the Taxi Driver. We are nevertheless forced to compare the murder inside the Taxi with the execution of the killer inside the prison. Both acts then look appalling.
The film which was an expanded version of Decalogue V was so powerful that Poland as a country suspended Capital Punishment after the release of the movie.
It haunts.
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