Kieślowski’s the Decalogue

Although the 10 Commandments served to enliven the ethical tales that make up Kieslowski’s The Decalogue, neither the rich imagery that Kieslowski uses throughout the films nor the way they relate to God’s Law as revealed to Moses are in any way, shape, or form straightforward or obvious. The Decalogue’s ideas and subjects are complex and frequently ambiguous, especially when it comes to two recurring images: the enormous condo complex where various characters live and occasionally cross paths, and the mysterious, perplexing male figure who hovers on the edge of the action, soundlessly observing. Kieślowski utilizes these two images to outline and build up the metaphysic that lies at the heart of the movie. Kieślowski is a genuine craftsman whose extreme concern is honesty, that of his characters and furthermore of himself, as a producer. He doesn’t show profound quality in the feeling of “thou shalt not” yet rather mulls over and tests life’s “hazy areas”. As indicated by him, “trustworthiness is a to a great degree muddled blend and we can never at last say ’I was straightforward’ or ’I wasn’t straightforward’. In every one of our activities we wind up in a position from which there’s truly no chance to get out and regardless of the possibility that there is, it is not a superior way out but only the lesser evil. This choosing obviously, characterizes uprightness.

In the phrase ”no other gods besides me“ we see God’s preclusion against excessive idolatry, as well as His purposes behind that disallowance. It was the Lord God who had the ability to bring His kin out of subjugation in Egypt. Only he looked after them to pick them to be His own, and only he conveyed and secured them. For this, He proclaims that only he should be loved and worshipped. No symbol made of stone or wood is God. Idols are hard of hearing, daze, and feeble. The individuals who revere ”other gods“ will eventually confront an indistinguishable destiny as the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel whereby they were tested by Elijah to a duel. The prophets of Baal and Elijah offered penances to their particular divinities, yet they didn’t consume the penances. The god who reacted to their pleas and took relinquish would be pronounced the one genuine God for all people.

Our God is never occupied, sleeping, voyaging, or diverted. He is portrayed as: ”The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of paradise and earth and does not live in sanctuaries worked by hands. Furthermore, he is not served by human hands as though He required anything, since He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.“ Therefore, because we are the children of God, we ought not feel that the Divine Being resembles stone or gold or silver- a picture made by man’s outline and ability. God charges us not to serve different divine beings on the grounds that there are no different divine beings with the exception of the ones we make ourselves.

In the phrase ”For I the lord your God am an impassioned God, Visiting the guilt of parents upon children, upon the third and fourth generations of those who reject me but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who loved me“ we see that the whole family would be obliterated due to some wrongdoing done by their ancestors in light of the fact that the god send them suffering and pain on order to retaliate for them.

Here we see that God punishes our generations because of our wrong doings but on the other hand also blesses our generations if we stick to his words and avoid committing sins. From this phrase we learn that we should abide to God’s commandments and obey his laws so as to avoid curses from God to us and even our future generations. We should therefore obey his law for us to get blessings and even our coming generations.

The primary creation story (Gen. 1:1-2:4a) is a piece of what researchers have named the Priestly (P) tradition. The Decalogue that now shows up as a major aspect of the disclosure at Sinai account was added into the Pentateuch. P’s disclosure (Exod. 19:1) rapidly bounces into the depiction of the working of the Tabernacle. This record goes on about the Shabbat twice (31:12-17, 35:1-3). Each time the portrayal contains extremely extreme talk in regards to the significance of the day and the genuine outcomes an Israelite would confront for disregarding its sacredness.

In this content, we see that the Shabbat is by one means or another related with the self-important snapshot of the mass migration from Egypt, as the Deuteronomist history specialist is attached to doing. Be that as it may, its genuine association with the Shabbat is not as clear as the association with the creation story found in Exodus, and requires more elucidation.

Work Cited

Jewish Study Bible. Place of publication not identified: Oxford University Press, 2015. Print.