Film as Midrash - Dusty Nelson

Midrash is meant to bring out questions.  It brings out the meaning of scripture, however the meaning is personal for the receiver.  Decalogue I, centers around the relationship between a father and son.  The father, a man who is inclined to learn about the world through math, or anything that can be measured is shattered by the death of his son after he falls through the ice skating.  My personal feelings about the meaning of the movie were that of heartache for the dad.  It seemed that the movie was trying to inform us that regardless of how to want to deal with it, there is always an element of the unknown.  Some higher power that we can't ever know.  The father acknowledges this when his son asks him what death is.  He says, "Me personally, I don't know".  Even a person who believes in the ability to know things acknowledges that he doesn't know everything.  However I'm not sure how faith would make something like the death of your child any easier to bear, or why it would bring you closer to a personal God.  I don't think this film is trying to inject a position either way.  I think it is a beautiful representation of a simple idea.  In this way it must be personal.  A universal truth that no one fully understands must be reckoned with personally.