You must not covet other people's property
DECALOGUE
"THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS."
Although many are reluctant, the Ten Commandments have finally written the tenth chapter. The story of the Ten Commandments in the movie is over, but similar things , repeated in life.
Back to the story itself. Two brothers, after the father's death, he sorted out his estate and found that there was almost nothing except stamps. When the two were disappointed, the father's creditor came to demand a debt of 220,000 yuan, so the two brothers planned to sell their father. of stamps. But when they got to the stamp company, the manager who knew their father went to his father's house and told them that the value of those stamps was more than 200 million Polish dollars. The brothers were stunned. In their father's collection there was a famous set of Austrian Mercury stamps, only one in all of Poland, and his father was only short of the red one. They learned that the person who owned the stamp did not intend to sell it and only wanted to exchange the stamp, and the owner of the stamp they needed, after testing the blood of the two brothers, asked for the brother's kidney in exchange - that Man's daughter is seriously ill. After thinking about it, my brother agreed. After the operation, he got the bad news that his father's apartment was robbed, and they had nothing but the red Mercury. The two brothers suspected each other and denounced each other in front of the police, but they were condemned by their families, and they realized that they had fallen into someone else's trap. In the end, the two found out that the other party had bought the latest set of stamps and looked at each other. And laugh.
I have always been interested in the motives of the two brothers. If they went to the stamp market to sell at the beginning, they were motivated by money, but in retrospect, their behavior was more like cherishing the property rather than simply greed for money. . Even if the stamps were sold, it was to repay his father's debt, which was understandable. The two brothers who seem to be quite kind, but they suspect each other at the end. The story has progressed from humor to black humor, and it is completely black. People will think: I am indifferent to fame and fortune, and it is him who has the heart of fame and fortune. But when they think like this, they have just shown their desire for fame and fortune. Here again, this desire is nothing but a calamity instigated by a windfall. The brothers thought they had the situation shrewdly, but in the end they were still being tricked. This story is not so much a Christian morality story as it is a zen-flavored short story. All efforts are in vain in the end, and it cannot be called retribution, because the real perpetrator is not punished, but only It is said that the two still failed to maintain a sense of composure, but after all, the windfall was unreliable.
The soundtrack of the film is extremely simple, and it is almost always just a short reminder when the plot turns. At the end, Prisner uncharacteristically took the rock live recording of his brother's band directly to the end, which was very different from his usual quiet style, but this episode with a strong firework smell was indeed very close to that rock style, and that This tune can also add a touch of irony to the film.
I don't know why, but when I wrote the tenth chapter that was about to end, I didn't have much to say. Maybe the first few episodes were too much to my appetite.
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