The Decalogue is a series of 10 hour-long episodes, each interpreting a different 10 Commandment. The first episode deals with "thou shalt have no other Gods before me", while the fifth episode deals with "thou shalt not kill".
In the first episode, we see two characters that have very distinct ways of looking at life. The father sees life in numbers and measurements (believing in what could be proven), while the aunt lives in faith. Pavel is searching for answers somewhere between the two, but dies in the lake before he can find them. After the bodies are pulled out of the water, we see Pavel's father slowly realizing what has happened, and even losing his faith in the science that caused his son to die.
The fifth episode was a little more confusing to me; why did Jacek want to kill that taxi driver? He does go into how his sister was killed by a drunk driver, so maybe he had some deep psychological issues. For me the concept of Madrash was evident in the first episode more so than in the fifth. It way clearly a way to understand the first commandment. I looked up the fifth episode to get some more clarity on it, and it just seems like 'this is what happens when you murder someone, murder is wrong'. It also seems like Kielwoski was using this episode as a way to show his stance on the death penalty, rather than trying to bring the focus back on religion.
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