Becca Hornick--Decalogue 8

The short film had a great concept and was very moving. The theme that I found to be the most prevalent was life is not perfect,and people are not perfect. People make mistakes and sometimes live the rest of their lives paying for them, or trying to find ways to make up for their mistakes. The elderly woman in the movie is an example of someone who made a huge mistake and spent years worrying and trying to make up for it and forget about it. Finally though the young girl she let slip through fingers returns to see her and she can finally have the comfort of knowing the girl is alive, tell her the truth and apologize for her wrong doing and seek the forgiveness she needs to move on. The girl also needed answers to why she was hurt and abandoned so she too gets her answers, her apology and she can begin to move on as well.