Nick Lynch
The facet that intrigued me the most about this short film was the similiarities between the woman described by one of Zofia's students during a class discussion in which a woman becomes pregnant with another man's child while her husband is slowly dying of disease. The woman is described as living within the same apartment building as her husband's doctor and is conflicted as to keep or abort the baby. We later find out that Zofia's husband died of cancer, his doctor lives in the same building as Zofia, and that Zofia's son is estranged from her, which could be the result of his discovery of his birth being a product of infedelity. Too many similairities exist between the two to be dismissed.
Decalogue 8 refers to the ninth commandment which demands that "thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" which when simplified boils down to "don't lie". While the film deals primarily with the interactions between Zofia and Elzbieta, I believe that the parallels between Zofia and the woman in the story represent the falibility of people in general and points to what seems to be a dishonesty inhierent in everyone. Zofia being abandoned by her son and her lonliness in general represent the punishment for breaking this commandment.
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