tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post3889056036075328836..comments2024-03-19T02:14:31.704-04:00Comments on <center>OnFiction</center>: Kieslowski's DecalogueKeith Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-6682278189971478842010-10-15T11:03:28.581-04:002010-10-15T11:03:28.581-04:00I look forward to your review, Keith. Please feel ...I look forward to your review, Keith. Please feel free to add yourself to my Guestbook and add your blog details and description. Perhaps, after you have seen Decalogue 6 - 10, you might like to start a new post on my Forum with your views and comments. As you say, it's good to have the DVD collection available; I have the Artifical Eye 2-DVD collection. When I first saw them screened on television the easiest one to pick up on was Decalogue 1 but after seeing the others I began to see what Kieslowski was up to. I won't say anymore at this stage until you have done your review. Suffice to say that Kieslowski linked out to everything that followed Decalogue. I am still finding this out even now! Almost impossible to comprehend these links in a cinema setting unless you buy lots of tickets and go back many times! I bid you a very good day for now.Alexandre FABBRIhttp://www.weronika.freeserve.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-62297232169057697262010-10-14T16:54:48.001-04:002010-10-14T16:54:48.001-04:00Thank you very much, Alexandre, for this comment. ...Thank you very much, Alexandre, for this comment. I think Kieslowski's idea, that you describe, of audiences seeing the whole sequence of his <i>Decalogue</i> films fairly closely together seems absolutely right. I think each of the films invites reflection but, as you say, the whole sequence does indeed offer a very moving basis for thinking about how we live, and about how we should live. The DVD set that one can buy now enables one to see the films over a short period and thus to keep all of them in mind as one ponders. I'm going to review <i>Decalogue 6 - 10</i> in an upcoming post, probably at the beginning of November.Keith Oatleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-10263637003384417482010-10-14T16:22:41.440-04:002010-10-14T16:22:41.440-04:00I believe to understand Kieslowski's Decalogue...I believe to understand Kieslowski's Decalogue series of episodes made for Polish TV, one needs to have the time to view them together and not separately. As Kieslowski remarked, the Polish audience tended to lose the connection between the films because of the fact that they were aired once a week each Sunday rather than one a day. Also, as opposed to a cinema setting, the average household would have disturbances going on, kettle boiling, children playing, etc., which would not help in the thought processes required to understand where Kieslowski wanted to take his audience. He certainly did not wish his films simply to remind his Polish and predominatly Catholic audience of how some ten commandments might apply to them but rather wanted to ponder things over and ask questions of themselves.Alexandre FABBRIhttp://www.weronika.freeserve.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com