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The Decalogue

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The Decalogue	comment	The Decalogue (Polish: Dekalog) is a series of ten Made-for-TV movies by acclaimed director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Each movie represents one of the Ten Commandments of The Bible, dealing with different characters that are related only in the setting and making small appearances in some of the other chapters. There is also a strange man that appears in almost all the movies, usually as a bystander playing different roles. Decalogue One (I am the Lord thy God... thou shalt not have other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image... Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.) - An atheist university professor trains his young son in the use of reason and the scientific method using a computer he bought. One day, the computer miscalculates the thickness of the ice on a lake where the boy usually goes skating. Decalogue Two (Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.) - An elderly doctor is approached by a woman who asks about her gravely ill husband's chances of survival. She is pregnant by someone else. If her husband dies, she wants to keep the child, but if he has a chance of living, she will have an abortion. Decalogue Three (Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.) - On Christmas Eve, a taxi driver has to choose if he will help find his former mistress' missing husband or spend it with his family. Decalogue Four (Honor thy father and thy mother.) - A young woman and her widower father start to feel attracted to each other when one day, she discovers a letter from her mother that says he might not be her father after all. Decalogue Five (Thou shalt not kill.) - A malicious young man murders a rude taxi cab driver for no reason. He is caught and sentenced to death. Decalogue Six (Thou shalt not commit adultery.) - A naive young man spies on a woman and falls in love with her. Decalogue Seven (Thou shalt not steal.) - A young woman abducts her own daughter, who has been raised by her parents as her sister. Decalogue Eight (Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.) - A Holocaust survivor confronts a Catholic ethics professor who once refused to help her on the basis of not bearing false witness. Decalogue Nine (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.) - A man who has become impotent suggests his wife that even though they love each other, she should find a new lover. And then she does. Decalogue Ten (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.) - Two brothers inherit a valuable stamp collection from their deceased father and soon become consumed and obsessed with their windfall.Itâ€™s very similar in tone to KieÅ›lowskiâ€™s later Three Colors Trilogy, but this one has a more religious background associated for obvious reasons.Stanley Kubrick declared this film the only one worth admiring in his lifetime.
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The Decalogue / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
The Decalogue / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: According to ElÅ¼bieta in Decalogue Eight, Zofia made a name for herself in the Polish resistance against the Nazis and is responsible for multiple Polish Jews getting through the war alive.
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The Decalogue / int_165308f6	type	The Commandments
The Decalogue / int_165308f6	comment	The Commandments: Each of the ten films is loosely inspired by the respective commandment, though usually with nods to some of the other commandments: Dorota asks the doctor treating Andrzej in Decalogue Two to effectively play God to her unborn child, who was conceived during an adulterous affair. Rather than spending Christmas Eve with his family, Janusz spends most of Decalogue Three with Ewa, with whom he once committed mutual adultery (and who accuses him of having sabotaged the affair with an "anonymous" phone call to her husband). The object of the "theft" in Decalogue Seven is Majka's daughter Ania, who was "stolen" from Majka by her mother Ewa (whom Ania thinks is her real mother) and whom Majka tries to "steal" back, suggesting that neither Majka nor Ania are honouring their mother and father. In Decalogue Nine, Mariusz doesn't just covet Roman's wife, he commits adultery with her. The partners in crime in Decalogue Ten go from coveting the Janicki brothers' stamp collection to stealing it.
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The Decalogue / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Decalogue / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Decalogue Five is notoriously different than the rest of the episodes, being Darker and Edgier and more political in its message. Decalogue Ten is outright Black Comedy.
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The Decalogue / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Decalogue / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: In Decalogue Four, Anka is very close to her father MichaÅ‚, her mother having died when she was a newborn; however, this has reached the point that they have become jealous of each other's romantic partners, and when Anka finds a letter from her mother revealing that MichaÅ‚ isn't her real father, she considers acting on the romantic tension between them. Then she admits to MichaÅ‚ that she forged the letter, so they go back to living as father and daughter, but when they burn the real letter, just enough of it remains to suggest that MichaÅ‚ might not be Anka's father after all. Majka in Decalogue Seven is much closer to her father, Stefan, than she is to her mother, Ewa. As Ewa always wanted a large family but could not have any additional children after complications arose during Majka's birth, she has always been cold toward her; by contrast, Stefan remains affectionate toward Majka, comforting her when Ewa refuses her permission to take her daughter Ania (who believes Majka is her sister, not her mother) to Canada with her.
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The Decalogue / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Decalogue / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Marcin, the friend of Tomek and the son of the landlady, is only ever mentioned, but never seen through both cuts of Six.
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The Decalogue / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Decalogue / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: In both cuts of Decalogue Six, Magda ends up crying over spilled milk. Just not due to spilling it.
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The Decalogue / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
The Decalogue / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: Dorota's lover from Two, who is only ever heard over the phone. He's still played by Piotr Fronczewski, another star actor of that era, with very characteristic voice.
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The Decalogue / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Decalogue / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Despite taking all the safety precautions and measurements, the ice still breaks under PaweÅ‚ in One.
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The Decalogue / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Decalogue / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The postal office manager from Six. Tomek plants fake postal advice in Magda's mailbox, so she will show up at the post office where he works. Instead of engaging him, she call the manager. The lady manning the post office turns out to be a rude, crude and downright hostile clerk, who chews up Magda for creating problems for her, even if it's the postal service that apparently lost Magda's mail and ultimately throws the poor woman out of the post office. While it might look like a comedic exaggeration, this sort of behaviour was the "norm" in Poland back then.
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The Decalogue / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
The Decalogue / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: Discussed in Decalogue Four, since it's dubious whether or not Anka is actually her father's biological daughter. In the end, they burn her mother's letter that could have revealed the truth, and instead agree to live on as father and daughter.
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The Decalogue / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Decalogue / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Decalogue Five starts with the murder of a cat and continues with two of the three main characters being rude to others non-stop until one of them kills the other for his car.
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The Decalogue / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Decalogue / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Decalogue Ten tells of two brothers trying to complete their deceased father's stamp collection, which is already worth hundreds of millions of zlotys (some of the individual series of stamps would fetch enough to buy a car or an apartment), purely to increase its value even further before selling it. All goes miserably as one of them is persuaded to donate a kidney to a complete stranger in exchange for the missing stamp, during the surgery for which the entire collection is stolen by a trio of con artists (including the one who claimed his daughter needed a kidney), yet they end up laughing together about the absurdity of their situation in the last scene.
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The Decalogue / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
The Decalogue / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Anka's mother's letter in Decalogue Four that she left for her husband and daughter to open at a given time. They fear it might reveal that she's not actually his child, and eventually burn it because of how much they fear the consequences of that.
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The Decalogue / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Decalogue / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Piotr, the murderer's lawyer in Decalogue Five, asks a superior if he could have done better. The answer is basically no. Jacek was destined to be executed as soon as he was brought to court.
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The Decalogue / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Decalogue / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Decalogue One climaxes with Krzysztof being betrayed by his faith in computer simulations as his young son PaweÅ‚ falls through the ice on a frozen pond that the computer simulation claimed was more than thick enough to support him.
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The Decalogue / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Decalogue / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The composer Van den Budenmayer (fictitious, but treated as a real person) mentioned in Decalogue Nine is mentioned again in The Double Life of Veronique and the Blue and Red movies of the Three Colors Trilogy.
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The Decalogue / int_2f948e12	type	Throwing the Distraction
The Decalogue / int_2f948e12	comment	Throwing the Distraction: In Decalogue Seven, Majka, while hiding behind a wall, throws a small wooden ball down the stairs, thus distracting an old woman watching over the entrance to the back of the stage.
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The Decalogue / int_310f67d2	type	Unrequited Love Switcheroo
The Decalogue / int_310f67d2	comment	Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Occurs in Decalogue Six. Tomek spies on Magda and falls in love with her, and she not only rejects his advances, but also attempts to show him that love doesn't exist. This leads to his suicide attempt. After that, Magda feels guilty and gradually comes to care for Tomek, but by the time he's healed, he tells her that he "no longer watches her."
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The Decalogue / int_3621828	type	Jizzed in My Pants
The Decalogue / int_3621828	comment	Jizzed in My Pants: Tomek from Six barely even touches Magda, not to mention getting undressed, and is done, all while she teases him. Humiliated, he runs away and tries to kill himself.
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The Decalogue / int_3e2a5fe3	type	The Rock Star
The Decalogue / int_3e2a5fe3	comment	The Rock Star: Artur in Decalogue Ten is the singer of a punk band called "City Death".
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The Decalogue / int_3e458831	type	Water Wake-up
The Decalogue / int_3e458831	comment	Water Wake-up: Anka and MichaÅ‚ in Decalogue Four seem to wake each other up this way frequently.
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The Decalogue / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Decalogue / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: A medical variant. The ophthalmologist in Decalogue Four admits she isn't picking the letters at random, but rather to see what people know and how much they use their intellect to answer, rather than their eyes.
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The Decalogue / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
The Decalogue / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: Ania from Decalogue Seven has been raised believing that Stefan and Ewa are her biological parents and Majka is her older sister. However, Majka is her real mother, having got pregnant at 16 after an affair with her Polishnote As in, language and literature. teacher, Wojtek. Even when Majka confesses the truth to Ania, the latter is too used to calling her "Majka" to start calling her "Mommy". In the final scene, hearing Ania call Ewa "Mommy" when she and Stefan finally catch up with them in the train station persuades Majka that Ania will never see her as her mother, and she boards the next train on her own.
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The Decalogue / int_42c8293a	type	Sibling Team
The Decalogue / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: Artur and Jerzy in Decalogue Ten try to complete and sell their deceased father's stamp collection and go through a lot for it.
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The Decalogue / int_440d55b3	type	Expansion Pack
The Decalogue / int_440d55b3	comment	Expansion Pack: Decalogue Five and Decalogue Six were expanded into A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, respectively; about 25 minutes were added to each. This was part of the deal that got the miniseries made, as the feature films would be easier for international distribution, and the condition that they would be produced provided additional funds.
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The Decalogue / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
The Decalogue / int_4548bae	comment	Majka in Decalogue Seven went through a Teen Pregnancy and Ania, her "sister", is actually her child.
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The Decalogue / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
The Decalogue / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: The premise of Decalogue Six. Magda initially is annoyed at Tomek and humiliates him. After he attempts suicide, she starts to feel for him.
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The Decalogue / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
The Decalogue / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Every movie deals with moral imperatives. Decalogue Five in particular has been interpreted by many as a film arguing decidedly against the death penalty, although KieÅ›lowski himself clarified he wanted to depict the topic impartially.
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The Decalogue / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Decalogue / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Decalogue One opens with the filming of a documentary at PaweÅ‚'s school; in the final scene, Irena watches the documentary on her TV.
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The Decalogue / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
The Decalogue / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: The message of Decalogue Five. Piotr grapples with the ethics of the death penalty and passionately argues against sentencing Jacek to death for murder, but despite the (offscreen) eloquence of his plea, the judge tells him that Jacek was condemned to death before the trial even began.note Coincidentally, the Polish government evidently agreed with Piotr, putting all executions on hold in 1989 and abolishing capital punishment entirely eight years later.
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The Decalogue / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
The Decalogue / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: Subverted in Decalogue Four. Anka not only has some feelings for MichaÅ‚, the man who raised her, but the feelings might be mutual. However, when she starts undressing in front of him, he refuses to go through with it.
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The Decalogue / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Decalogue / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Granddaughter rather than wife, but in Decalogue Seven, Majka abducts her daughter Ania, who has been raised believing that Majka is her older sister and that Majka's parents, Stefan and Ewa, are her parents. Majka takes Ania to the home of her biological father, Wojtek, and calls Ewa from a pay phone to tell her that she has Ania, and one of the conditions for her return is that her birth certificate be amended to acknowledge Majka as her real mother. Ewa, who regards Ania as the second daughter she always wanted but could not have due to complications from Majka's birth, wavers and does not agree until after Majka has already hung up.
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The Decalogue / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
The Decalogue / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Averted in Decalogue One. Krzysztof doesn't believe in God, but he has no problem with the fact that his sister does.
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The Decalogue / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
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The Decalogue / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Decalogue / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Tomek from Six hires himself as a milkman. The store clerk reminds him that it's a job requiring him to get up early, to which he replies that he's an early bird anyway. Smash Cut to him barely waking up to the sound of the alarm and struggling to stay awake.
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The Decalogue / int_69121204	type	The Un-Favourite
The Decalogue / int_69121204	comment	The Un Favourite: Majka from Seven. Ewa apparently loomed over her for her entire life and once Ania was born, she doted on her to no end, further neglecting Majka. By the start of the story, there is a rift the size of the Grand Canyon between Majka and Ewa - and it only gets worse from there.
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The Decalogue / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Decalogue / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal:Â MichaÅ‚ in Four always had his suspicions and can even pin-point the potential father of Anka among family photos. Majka in Decalogue Seven went through a Teen Pregnancy and Ania, her "sister", is actually her child.
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The Decalogue / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Decalogue / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: A stamp collection is the center of the story of Decalogue Ten. The brothers want to complete it to make money, but shady people want them as well. The brothers joke about it themselves at the end.
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The Decalogue / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Decalogue / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Two examples, both of which are fortunately unsuccessful. In Decalogue Six, Tomek tries slitting his wrists after being humiliated by Magda. The friend's mother with whom he is boarding finds him before he can bleed to death and rushes him to hospital. In Decalogue Nine, Roman rides his bike off a bridge when he thinks Hanka has resumed her affair with Mariusz. Although he ends up in a full body cast, he survives.
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The Decalogue / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
The Decalogue / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Before the events of Decalogue Seven, 16-year-old Majka had an affair with her teacher, Wojtek, that resulted in her getting pregnant. To avoid statutory rape charges, Wojtek was dismissed and moved to the countryside outside Warsaw.
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The Decalogue / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Decalogue / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: In Decalogue Eight, although ElÅ¼bieta credits Zofia with saving the lives of multiple Polish Jews during World War II, the latter has always been deeply ashamed of having to back out of her promise to transfer ElÅ¼bieta herself to a Catholic foster family and leaving her to an uncertain fate, ostensibly because producing a forged baptism certificate would have constituted bearing false witness, but really because the foster family supposedly had links to the Gestapo (links that were later disproved, but not before the family were ostracised), which would have had disastrous consequences for the Polish Resistance cell operated by Zofia's husband.
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The Decalogue / int_6fb07cc4	type	Science Is Wrong
The Decalogue / int_6fb07cc4	comment	Science Is Wrong: Krzysztof in Decalogue One uses his computer to calculate if the frozen lake will be able to hold PaweÅ‚. The ice breaks anyway.
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The Decalogue / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Decalogue / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: It's the late 80s and it's Poland. This even includes doctors and patients smoking in the hospital.
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The Decalogue / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Decalogue / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Jerzy and Artur in Decalogue Ten are too blinded by greed to think rationally. Why not just sell all the stamps right away and split the money? Why give a kidney to a total stranger? Why not put the stamps in a safety deposit box somewhere?
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The Decalogue / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
The Decalogue / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: Used extensively in Five, particularly in scenes with Jacek.
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The Decalogue / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Decalogue / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: In Decalogue One, Krzysztof (a linguistics professor) and PaweÅ‚ (his scientifically-inclined son) participate as a team in a simultaneous chess exhibition against real life Polish grandmaster Agnieszka Brustman. They are the first players to defeat her.
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The Decalogue / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
The Decalogue / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: The landlady in Six is fully aware of what Tomek is doing at night, but is cordial about it, seeing it as an adolescent thing. At one point she tries to even distract Tomek with the Miss Polonia competition, but he has his eyes only on one woman.
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The Decalogue / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
The Decalogue / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: In Decalogue One... probably. Krzysztof runs the calculations of whether or not the ice in a nearby pond will be thick enough for PaweÅ‚ to skate on, and the computer claims that it can support three times PaweÅ‚'s weight. The ice breaks anyway, and PaweÅ‚ and several of his classmates are killed.
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The Decalogue / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Decalogue / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Played with in Decalogue Two. Dorota tells the doctor treating her husband, Andrzej, that she is three months pregnant with another man's child, so she is nearing the end of the time frame for a legal abortion under Polish law. If Andrzej is expected to survive, she will go through with it, but if he is expected to die, she will keep the baby. The doctor says Andrzej's cancer is metastasising at an accelerated rate, so she keeps the baby. And then Andrzej's cancer starts responding to treatment... Averted in Decalogue Four. Anka tells MichaÅ‚ that one of her previous boyfriends got her pregnant, but she had the pregnancy terminated.
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The Decalogue / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
The Decalogue / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: In Decalogue Four, drama student Anka visits the optometrist over concerns about a sudden decline in her eyesight, and when Michal returns from his trip, she greets him at the airport while wearing an unflattering pair of glasses with bright pink frames.note However, those were just the regular glasses of that era, at least in Poland, and people would be hard-pressed to get any other frames for prescribed glasses, even if they wanted to.
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The Decalogue / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Decalogue / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Jacek is the most prominent character in Decalogue Five. He murders a taxi driver just to get a car.
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The Decalogue / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Decalogue / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: The entire plot of Decalogue Six revolves around this. Tomek watches Magda from his window everyday over the course of a year and falls in love with her in the process. The film depicts his attempts to make contact with her and confess his feelings.
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The Decalogue / int_8bf19707	type	No Dead Body Poops
The Decalogue / int_8bf19707	comment	No Dead Body Poops: Averted in Decalogue Five. The hangman, being a professional, even has a litter box prepared precisely because a hanged man will poop.
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The Decalogue / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
The Decalogue / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: PaweÅ‚ in Decalogue One is about ten years old and highly intelligent for his age, starting his day by entering physics problems improvised by his father Krzysztof into their computer and participating in a simultaneous chess exhibition against grandmaster Agnieszka Brustman (in a cameo as herself) at which, thanks to his observations of Brustman's style of play against her other opponents, he and Krzysztof score an upset win. He is also developing an interest in philosophical and theological questions, such as the existence of God or the afterlife.
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The Decalogue / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Decalogue / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Played with and exploited. Waldemar, the murder victim in Decalogue Five, ogles little girls, scares a man's dogs, and runs from any client he doesn't want to take in his cab (including Dorota and Andrzej, crossing over from Decalogue Two). When Jacek tries to strangle him with a length of rope and then settles for bashing his brains in with a rock, it's hard to feel sorry for him... except this is a story about the fifth commandment. Nobody "has it coming" or "deserves it". In fact, Waldemar's dragged out murder is portrayed with all the awfulness of the act, as is Jacek's eventual execution.
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The Decalogue / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Decalogue / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: What was in the letter from Four? And more importantly, is Anka reading the remaining piece of it for real, or is she toying with MichaÅ‚ once again?
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The Decalogue / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
The Decalogue / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: In Decalogue Two, Dorota ultimately decides to keep her pregnancy, despite it being the result of an affair. Then her dying husband gets better. In Decalogue Four, when Anka confronts MichaÅ‚ with the supposed contents of her deceased mother's letter claiming that MichaÅ‚ is not her real father, he shows her a picture of her mother with two men and another woman, explaining that her father is one of the two men in the picture, but he has no idea which.
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The Decalogue / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Decalogue / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: In Decalogue Nine, Roman's doctor friend who informs him of his impotence in the most unsympathetic way possible. Then when Roman asks what he should do about his wife, the doctor replies with one word: "Divorce."
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The Decalogue / int_9bf3470e	type	Santa Claus
The Decalogue / int_9bf3470e	comment	Santa Claus: Janusz disguises himself as such at the beginning of Decalogue Three.
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The Decalogue / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Decalogue / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Decalogue One, Krzysztof and PaweÅ‚ conduct an experiment in which they put a bottle of water outside their window; the water freezes and expands, cracking the glass. PaweÅ‚ suggests leaving it outside the following day, but Krzysztof notes that it will be warmed by the sun. The ice that is supposedly thick enough to skate on, according to both a computer simulation and Krzysztof himself walking onto the ice in the evening, melts the following day, causing PaweÅ‚ to fall through and freeze to death.
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The Decalogue / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Decalogue / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Characters from each story occasionally appear or are mentioned in another, usually for a second or two. Just to give a few examples: In Decalogue Three, Janusz, wearing a ÅšwiÄ™ty MikoÅ‚aj costume, briefly passes Krzysztof from Decalogue One on the steps outside his apartment building. In Decalogue Four, MichaÅ‚ and Anka briefly share a lift with the doctor from Decalogue Two, and we catch a brief glimpse of Waldemar from Decalogue Five in his taxi. Dorota and Andrzej from Decalogue Two try (unsuccessfully) to hail Waldemar's taxi in Decalogue Five. Roman from Decalogue Nine makes a brief appearance in Decalogue Six. As an ethics problem for her students in Decalogue Eight, Zofia relates the story of Dorota carrying another man's baby while her husband Andrzej is (supposedly) dying of cancer from Decalogue Two. She later tells ElÅ¼bieta that Dorota and Andrzej (and the unnamed doctor) live in her building. Decalogue Ten focuses on Jerzy and Artur, the sons of CzesÅ‚aw "Root" Janicki, Zofia's philatelist fellow tenant in Decalogue Eight. Near the end of the film, Jerzy buys an assortment of stamps from Tomek from Decalogue Six.
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The Decalogue / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
The Decalogue / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: The ending of Two is scored to Dorota's performance in the orchestra.
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The Decalogue / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
The Decalogue / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	â€¦And That Little Girl Was Me: In Decalogue Eight, having listened to Zofia present several ethical dilemmas to her students, ElÅ¼bieta asks if she can present her own ethical dilemma, which she says is based on a true story. In 1943, a Catholic woman promised a 6-year-old Jewish girl whose parents had been sent to the Warsaw ghetto that she could hide with another Catholic foster family, but the transfer required producing a forged baptism certificate for the girl in case the Nazis became suspicious. The Catholic woman balked at this, ostensibly because it constituted bearing false witness, and sent the girl away to an uncertain fate just before curfew. Zofia gradually realises that she is the Catholic woman in the story, and ElÅ¼bieta is the Jewish girl.
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The Decalogue / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
The Decalogue / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: And he even has the right name, even if the idiom doesn't work in Polish. Tomek in Decalogue Six spends his evenings spying on Magda, who lives in the building opposite his, through a telescope, watching her undress and occasionally entertain boyfriends. When she catches him, she turns the tables on him by telling her boyfriend, who knocks Tomek to the ground with a single punch.
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The Decalogue / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
The Decalogue / int_a864d2d8	comment	Ewa in Seven arranged for Majka to get a passport (which was quite a feat under the commie government) and a travel visa to Canada, in the hopes that she will not only go, but also decide to stay, not wanting to go back to Poland. She gets her wish fulfilled in the end, but not before having a massive fight with Majka, leaving her heartbroken.
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The Decalogue / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Decalogue / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Krzysztof from One is always calm and collected, but eventually cracks under pressure when PaweÅ‚ doesn't come home on time and is apparently missing. It goes only downhill from there. In Four, once Anka finishes reading the letter from her mother to him, the otherwise mild-mannered MichaÅ‚ suddenly gives her a powerful slap across the face and storms off.
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The Decalogue / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Decalogue / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Exploited in Decalogue Five. During his bar exam, Piotr quotes Marx for a good measure. This being the People's Republic of Poland, the bar now can't fail him, even if they wanted to.
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The Decalogue / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
The Decalogue / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: At the beginning of Decalogue Nine, Roman is diagnosed with impotence. The film as a whole is a rare case of this trope being Played for Drama instead of comedy, as his self-esteem is shattered by the diagnosis, while his marriage suffers as he suggests that Hanka should seek sexual pleasure elsewhere and then realises that when she does, he feels worse.
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The Decalogue / int_aed59f28	type	Girls Love Stuffed Animals
The Decalogue / int_aed59f28	comment	Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Ania from Decalogue Seven is a little girl and likes her biological father's teddy bears a lot.
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The Decalogue / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Decalogue / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Magda from Six. Not only is she a beautiful woman, but she spends a third of her screen time naked or in lingerie, befitting a story about The Peeping Tom.
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The Decalogue / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Decalogue / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Anka from Four opens a letter from her deceased mother, in which she explains that MichaÅ‚ is not her actual father. After a moment of pondering on the subject, MichaÅ‚ goes to a family album, takes out a single photo with two strangers and Anka's mom and explains that either of the men is likely her real father. Except the letter was fake and Anka wrote it herself when her father was on a delegation - and as the situation unfolds, she has nothing but regret about doing so, eventually admitting the whole charade. Ewa in Seven arranged for Majka to get a passport (which was quite a feat under the commie government) and a travel visa to Canada, in the hopes that she will not only go, but also decide to stay, not wanting to go back to Poland. She gets her wish fulfilled in the end, but not before having a massive fight with Majka, leaving her heartbroken.
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The Decalogue / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Decalogue / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: You would think the duo of technicians from a gas company in Six would know better than to search for gas leaks with a burning newspaper. Keep in mind that the phone operator Tomek called to summon them explicitly warned him not to do that and wait for professionals to arrive.
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The Decalogue / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Decalogue / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Ewa from Seven is not only a very controlling and caustic person, but considers Majka to be the worst thing that ever happened to her in a very open, direct and verbal way.
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The Decalogue / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Decalogue / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: Throughout Six, Tomek is always addressing Magda in a very formal way, which is part of what amuses her during their date.
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The Decalogue / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
The Decalogue / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: Anka confronts MichaÅ‚ in Decalogue Four after finding a letter from her deceased mother claiming that he isn't really her father. Then at the end, it turns out she forged the letter and it was all a lie. Or was it?
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The Decalogue / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Decalogue / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The ophthalmologist checking on Anka's eyesight in Decalogue Four is wearing a pair of huge glasses. It's little surprise that Anka ends up with Nerd Glasses.
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The Decalogue / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Decalogue / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The doctor treating Andrzej in Decalogue Two is unnamed despite being one of the focal characters.
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The Decalogue / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Decalogue / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The ice breaking in Decalogue One in spite of reliable calculations that proved that it wouldn't. The mysterious man in white. He features in almost all of the films, usually in scenes in which the characters are going against one of the commandments (such as Krzysztof testing the thickness of the ice in Decalogue One, or Anka contemplating opening her mother's letter in Decalogue Four), and, as reported by his actor Artur BarciÅ›, has been described as an angel by KieÅ›lowski.
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The Decalogue / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Decalogue / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Anka's mom in Decalogue Four passed away a week after giving birth due to unspecified complications. Since she was aware of her impending death, she left behind a letter to her daughter, to be given to her later.
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The Decalogue / int_dae7053d	type	Sexy Stewardess
The Decalogue / int_dae7053d	comment	Sexy Stewardess: Hanka, the wife in Decalogue Nine, is a stewardess for KLM, and she is sufficiently alluring to have captured the attention of physics undergraduate Mariusz even before her husband Roman is diagnosed as sexually impotent.
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The Decalogue / int_dcf1e0e2	type	Punch a Wall
The Decalogue / int_dcf1e0e2	comment	Punch a Wall: In Decalogue Six, after pulling the prank with the gas company and laughing about it, Tomek suddenly smashes a nearby wardrobe.
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The Decalogue / int_dfd18c4	type	Typecasting
The Decalogue / int_dfd18c4	comment	Typecasting: Invoked and openly exploited by KieÅ›lowski. GraÅ¼yna SzapoÅ‚owska had a rather... special reputation: every single movie she starred in had a nude scene with her. So naturally, she plays Magda, the woman Tomek is ogling in Six, just like the vast majority of male movie-goers of that era.
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The Decalogue / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Decalogue / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Both the murderer and the murder victim in Decalogue Five are deeply unpleasant people. Jacek spends the first half of the episode engaging in all manner of petty acts of sociopathy, such as shooing away a flock of pigeons that an old woman wants to feed simply because she told him to leave and stop scaring them, shoving a man into the troughs at the bottom of a row of urinals, dropping a stone from an overpass onto a passing car, flicking the dregs from a cup of coffee at the cafÃ© window and then spitting in his dirty cup before leaving... all of which is merely a setup for his biggest crime: murdering Waldemar to steal his car. Waldemar, the taxi driver, is rude toward his customers, leaves a pregnant woman hurrying to the hospital to her own devices, abuses a dog that did nothing to him... Ironically, the only person he doesn't treat like shit is Jacek.
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The Decalogue / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
The Decalogue / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: In Decalogue Three, Janusz starts to have doubts that Ewa's husband Edward is really missing when he goes into her bathroom; although he sees two toothbrushes, a shaving brush, and a safety razor, he dismantles the last of these and notices that the blade is rusty and too dull even to cut the skin on his hand. Ewa finally confesses that she and Edward divorced three years ago, and he has moved to Krakow, re-married, and had two children.
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The Decalogue / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
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The Decalogue / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: In Decalogue Three, Janusz' excuse to leave his wife and children on Christmas Eve is a false claim that his taxi has been stolen; he asks his wife to phone the police. When he and Ewa drive past two police cars and realise the police will assume they have stolen the taxi, he drives like a madman through the streets of Warsaw in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to outrun them. After being let off with a warning, Janusz decides to pick up where he left off, driving full speed toward an oncoming tram in a tunnel (driven by the recurring character played by Artur BarciÅ›) and swerving at the last second. Roman on his bike in Decalogue Nine. Especially when he tries to kill himself by driving into the lake.
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