The Decalogue

I found this short film to be very interesting and powerful. When I heard that it was a Polish film that was made in the 1970's under the old Soviet regime I assumed that it would not be that good. More specifically I thought that the religious themes of the movie would have been very watered down. But to my surprise this was not the case. There was the deep look at what had happened during WWII as the older woman was a religious Catholic and the young woman the Jewish girl that she had to turn away. Since this time they had both been plagued by what had happened. I find it interesting however that the older woman said that she no longer went to church. Also many people such as the tailor refused to talk about what had happened. I wonder, was this turn from religion and the past because of the current anti-religious Soviet regime? Or had people simply fallen away from their faith or were too horrified from the past to think about it?

- Robbie Heath