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Dekalog 5: Thou Shalt Not Kill (TV)

Dekalog, piec - Dekalog 5 (Decalogue Five: Thou Shalt Not Kill)

1990

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Krystyna Janda ...

7.8

2,250

Drama "Thou Shalt Not Kill" - a shorter, slightly less graphic version of 'A Short Film About Killing', but the plot is essentially the same: murder followed by execution, two killings, one illegal, one legal, both hideous.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Wally Hammond Time Out	"Extraordinary (...) [It] gets to the heart of our inability to obey the edict 'Thou shalt not kill', thus suggesting the mystery of our deepest motives, without preaching or simplification"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A story so full and powerful that Kieślowski would later extend the episode into a full-length feature called 'A Short Film About Killing'"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"One of the great legacies of 'The Decalogue' is that its vision of humanity is infinite: Behind every door, there are desires, secrets, and feelings worth exploring on film."	POS
United States	Jack Mathews New York Daily News	"Kieslowski makes a blunt dramatic argument against capital punishment (...) There are no niceties to this stark tale"	POS
United States	Annette Insdorf The New York Times	"Kieslowski's ambitious fresco offers a profound vision of human fallibility."	POS
United States	Marrit Ingman Austin Chronicle	"'Decalogue Five' ('Thou shalt not kill') is perhaps the most celebrated of the films. It is almost certainly the most artful."	POS

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