Paris, never

Kieślowski is my favorite director.

A Song of Opportunity deals with the issues I've been thinking about. In Poland in the eighties, a young man had three possible positions to choose from: join them, oppose them, and be a clean and independent outsider. I think most professionals want to go the third way (although the assumption of "majority" is dubious) - "doing a doctor is about being responsible only to yourself", how good is that.

In "Song of Opportunity", Kieślowski's thinking is: as long as you are a person with a sense of morality, no matter which way you choose, the result is no way to go.

It's impossible to be alone. You may be able to reject an organization on the grounds of belief in God, and you won't be at risk by going to an underground university, but you can't reject a professor who has helped you for many years, and he asks you to travel for him. And the reason he couldn't make it was because his son was arrested for participating in an underground university (that would have been your second way. Yes, even if you didn't choose someone else, so you don't have to be guilty of anything sense). You say yes, get on a plane to Paris, and happen to have some dissenters (who were your companions on the second route), and the plane blows up.

You can't escape. It is true that the plane "crash" is too accidental, but in your life, there will always be countless other people's tragedies happen before your eyes, and there will always be someone related to you. Public life and private life will meet at least at a certain moment, and you always have to step on that node.

What is the way of redemption? What were the possible paths to redemption in Poland in the eighties?

Like Short Love and The Ten Commandments, Kieślowski's answer in A Song of Opportunity may be: love.

Enjoy love regardless of social background.

Yes, on the third road, the male protagonist really feels happy. When he heard that his fiancée was three months pregnant, he took two steps back with joy, and squatted down when he couldn't stand still. When he recited the marriage vows with the priest, he couldn't help laughing, the blood vessels on his forehead bulged out of excitement, and he tried hard to hold back tears, tears of joy. On the one hand, he avoided the organization, on the other hand, he did not support the opponents, and he did it, and all this was also understood by his wife. They have such a common language that they will soon welcome their second child.

I almost believed he had been redeemed.

And then Kieślowski told us, yes, these loves and happiness are real, but they are incredibly fragile. In the face of the suffering of others, it is arrogant and stupid to think that you have the ability and luck to be an innocent outsider.

Pain is almost inevitable. The hero seems to be in a labyrinth towards which he takes Paris as his destination, but whichever direction he starts from, he is fatally led to destruction.

As the singer sings in the middle of the movie: "In this dark situation, everything seems to be irreversible forever."