Kieslowski has an excellent sense of the overall tone of the film. In "The Short Film of Murder", he and photographer Iziak creatively used a green filter to shoot the entire film. It is said that There are as many as 600 special green filters. However, this green has nothing to do with life, growth or even hope, but instead creates a dazzling cruelty, emptiness and weirdness. Poland's urban streetscapes look dingy and lifeless in a near-brown grey-green. It should be noted that the effect of this film on the TV screen and the movie screen is slightly different. Kieslowski said it was possible to watch the TV version of the film on TV, but that the movie version "would suck". The theme of this film is not just about killing, but about any form of violence. Kieslowski has always been generous in showing the cruel scenes in life, such as the eagle biting a chicken at the beginning of "The Movie Fan", the blood-splattered hospital in the riot at the beginning of "Blind Hit", and "The Short Film of Murder". It was dead cockroaches, dead mice, and a bunch of kids hanging a cat. Violence is one of the most extreme forms of behavior, and Kieslowski is firmly opposed to it. Yazek's killing of the taxi driver was extremely cruel, and the law's death penalty in the name of Justice was equally shocking. Kieslowski took the trouble to record the entire process of these two scenes, and also showed two corresponding intentions that gave the viewer the strongest visual impact. One was the dentures that fell out of the taxi driver's mouth after he died. Falling in the mud, another is Yazek on the gallows fecal incontinence falling into the tray below. Since the birth of this film, it was immediately applauded by advocates of abolition of the death penalty around the world, and it has also become a classic work that they often cite. In fact, the year after the film was released, Poland announced a five-year moratorium on executions. Aside from its rejection of violence in all its names, "Murderous Short" presents the first full ultimate questioning of the law, and it's perhaps Pisjavitz's most focused entry in The Decalogue series. The trainee lawyer full of faith and the future " Three Colors Red "Just like the law students in the book, only after stepping into the society did they gradually discover the big difference between the theoretical law and the practical law. He found it difficult to answer the following question: Does violence in the name of the law necessarily equal good? Is a bad law a law? Is the law more important than prevention or punishment? How to judge the fairness of sentencing between crime and punishment? Bjort recalled seeing Yazek in a cafe before the murder, but he was unable to predict and prevent the crime from happening, and could only watch the criminal accept the death penalty afterwards, even though it would lead to shattering his ideals.
A Short Film About Killing evaluation action
2022-03-15 08:01
Extended Reading
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Josie 2022-04-24 07:01:25
# "The Ten Commandments" in the extended version of the fifth commandment# The whole film, especially the warm tone at the beginning, indicates the opening of a long memory. The cat hanging at the beginning was stunned for a while, establishing a dark, obscure, and alienating atmosphere. Mainly because his sister died for no reason, a very close relationship was suddenly broken, the indifference and alienation of the social crowd, the unwillingness and resentment in his heart, and the pain could not be ruled out for him to have the idea of shattering the driver. Of course, the driver who molested women and was frivolous but would also make way for weak children became the victims of being strangled. Similarly, a young lawyer who is sensitive and upholds the kindness of the public faces the poor and hateful male protagonist and is sentenced to prison, and faces the pain of deep concern and remorse for his mother before his death! Throughout, they are all specific people who are helpless and difficult to understand deeply. In life, the male protagonist will be criticized as an anti-social personality, but in the face of this cold and complex melting pot of society, the iceberg collapses, and which snowflake is innocent. ? Implicit criticism of si punishment, whether the law is just, whether public weapons can deprive others of their lives by means of punishment, and whether humanitarianism is hypocritical? How can human ugliness be restrained?
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Carli 2022-03-29 09:01:09
The scenes of several groups of dead animals at the beginning of the film directly create a very gloomy and depressing atmosphere of the story, and then through the filter, the tone of the film is made extremely lifeless and gray, so that the later realistic killing process is even more cruel and dark. fear. ...When the murderer took possession of the taxi, he heard the children's song on the radio, "I want to hear a story about lions...". Coincidentally, the children downstairs happened to be watching my screening of "The Lion King".
A Short Film About Killing quotes
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Jacek Lazar: I didn't listen in court, not until you called to me. They were all... all against me.
Piotr Balicki: Against what you did.
Jacek Lazar: Same thing...
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Piotr: So you want me to see your mother.
Jacek: Yes, to ask her to bury me next to my father. Can I be buried in a cemetery?
Piotr: Yes.
Jacek: The priest they sent said I could.
Piotr: Naturally.
Jacek: Next to my father is another plot. It was supposed to be for my mother. Ask her to let me have it.