- understanding of The Ten Commandments, Episode 7 "Never Steal" The
concept of ownership is deeply rooted in human nature. Infants and young children who just compete for toys will have "your" and "mine" points for toys. So we can understand the behavior of the mother-daughter battle for "motherhood" in episode 7 of The Ten Commandments (Dekalog 1989). "Ownership" generally refers to "things", but for a child who is still referred to as "it", we can consider it to be the property of the parents, and the law will clearly protect this "ownership" relationship, any attempt to change this The act of a relationship is a form of "stealing," and as long as it's considered "stealing," you can't claim ownership of the stolen thing, because it won't be yours after all. Judging from the theme of this episode, in addition to warning the world about this, it is more likely that we want to see what the consequences of "stealing" people and stealing people's feelings will be.
The grandmother who changed ownership was the mother of the heroine Maika. She was too strict with Maika, and Maika couldn't meet her requirements no matter how hard she tried, so she wanted to have another child to make up for it, but it didn't work out. The rebellious Meka played with her middle school teacher, Walker, and had an unwed pregnancy. In order to solve the scandal, she successfully registered the daughter of Meka, Ania, in her name. , became the legally recognized "mother" of Ania. However, in Meka's eyes, her behavior is a kind of "stealing", not only stealing children, but also stealing "motherhood", and even everything. In fact, Maika's mother did want to possess Aenya as a replacement for her "destroyed" Maika, so she gave Aenia the tenderness of a real mother. Even so, this does not mean that Ania can grow up happily. The child's nature seems to realize something. She wakes up from howling every night, which is obviously a manifestation of psychological uneasiness. After getting a general understanding of everything, she couldn't shout when she was chasing the train that Maika was leaving at the end. She obviously knew that it was her biological mother who had left, but she couldn't call "Mother" in front of her nominal mother. called out. At the end, we seem to be able to be sure that if Maika's mother has lost Maika, then, after this incident, she will also lose Ania.
As for Maeka, she gave up her ownership of the child and obeyed her mother's arrangement. Whatever the reasons for her decision, it now seems to be a mistake. Although she believes that stealing her own things is not stealing, and so does the insider's view, the law does not protect her behavior. She claims to take Ania away from home, which is nothing more than a desire to "return" her child, but she has no support from anyone, and although her father sympathizes with this, in her strong position In front of the mother, the father could only agree and cooperate with her mother to deal with her. She thought her behavior would be supported by the child's father, Walker, but she didn't expect Walker to think her behavior was extreme. Not only did he not support her because he paid a heavy price for his actions at the beginning, but he also believed that the child needed a "normal home". Since he could no longer give the child all this, he would rather maintain the status quo, so that at least the child would have "Own toys", "Her bed" and "Milk for dinner". In addition, he was not satisfied with Maika's hysterical character. Of course, the most crucial reason was that Maika's behavior could no longer be supported by the law, she had given up, and it was impossible to get it back. (Text/Slate Planting Flowers Sunday, August 28, 2016)
View more about Dekalog reviews
