In the fourth story of "The Ten Commandments", the atmosphere is solemn again. This is not because the previous two stories are easy, but compared to the dilemma caused by a simple personal behavior such as an affair, challenging ethical taboos will undoubtedly be A heavier and tougher attempt.
The story tells about the love of a young girl Anka for his father Mike. There is no doubt that this love goes beyond the family love within ethics, but tends to go to the love of men and women, but the same love for the same person, ethics as a kind of love. How can abstract references be distinguished effortlessly? That's what this story will discuss.
Unlike the suggestion that Kieslowski is using this story to mock the commandment to "honor your parents", I don't think his personal morality has deliberately influenced the story, although the story itself is full of "Provocation" is used, but it is only used as a method to place characters in extreme environments in order to find a suitable entry and ask deeper ethical dilemmas.
At the beginning of the film, Anka ran to Mike's room to wake him up with water, and Mike also repaid Anka with water in the bathroom. If this ethical relationship between them is not pointed out, it is only from the way of getting along, which is more important. Approach couples rather than father and daughter. Then, a scene of Mike's desire to eavesdrop on the conversation between his daughter and her boyfriend, which is not in the script, was added to push the relationship to a more extreme ambiguous.
As Anka, she didn't know that Mike was not her biological father before that, but even so, she still had feelings for Mike that were different from the normal father-daughter relationship. When she was very young, she would pretend to cry in order to get Mike caressed her, and when she grew up and started dating other men, Mike became an obstacle to her. She felt that it was a betrayal of her father when she was intimate with anyone. At the same time, she deliberately revealed this. This kind of intimacy with others, because she expects Mike to be jealous about it, and rages about it. But Mike has always been in the role of father very well and expressed his understanding of her, which made Anka very angry, so when she was pregnant with someone else's child, she secretly ran and killed her, she didn't say it was because of her I don't want to hear Mike say to her again: It's okay daughter.
Compared with Anka's early confusion and struggle with this ethical relationship, Mike should have been later. When Anka was a child, he had always been very comfortable with the role of father until one day, he found out My daughter has grown breasts, so she no longer hugs her like she used to. As a party who has no knowledge of the blood relationship between the two parties, Mike's avoidance is the beginning of his confusion. Although he has been suppressing certain desires by his own will for many years, the details of his life cannot be concealed, such as his fear of The growth of his daughter, being unhappy about her being with other men, and even being single all the time, all show the existence of this struggle. Although he himself does not want to admit the inevitability of this series of facts, it is just that he is still It is the insurmountable ethical bondage that makes a final effort, and Mike finally arranges for Anka to see the letter left by her mother, where the two struggles meet and become clear.
Within the scope of ethics, whether the family relationship depends more on blood or on this actual parenting relationship, it is obvious that Anka and Mike have made different explanations. Anka very easily chooses the part she needs. Thinking that as long as it is not her biological father, she is not a father, so she took the lead in putting aside the ethical constraints and revealed her feelings to Mike, but Mike could not be as relaxed as Anka, although Anka asked him "what should I call him in the future?" To this question, Mike chooses the more ambiguous "don't know" (in the script: Dad) in the film to suggest the continued mutation of the relationship, but singing a lullaby for him while he sleeps in Anka shows the obstacle Still deeply rooted, his singing of his daughter's childhood songs is an expression of his inner desires. He hopes that everything can go back to the past. If her daughter does not grow up, then everything will no longer be a problem.
But that's just wishful thinking. In reality, there is always a concrete and feasible solution. In the original script, Mike chose to leave. This was only treated as a misunderstanding in the movie. Mike was going to buy something. Anka thought he was going to leave. , so he told the truth, and he did not open the letter left by his mother. She hopes to restore the ethical relationship between them and keep Mike. They burned the letter together, but the disappearance of the form as an ethical entry does not mean that its binding meaning also disappears. This is the father-daughter relationship. Where it will go remains a worrying question.
In the script, Mike tells the story of a fast car guy. This man rides a motorcycle to work. He drives so fast that he sets new records almost every day, but one day he arrives very late. It turns out that he is short-sighted. I didn't realize that the street was so narrow and there were so many people...
Human beings have formulated various rules and regulations in order to make life simple and easy, but in fact, the clearer the rules are, the easier it is to cause extreme difficulties. will say: The law should not imitate human nature but improve it. But moral ethics as a legal aid undoubtedly faces a more complicated situation. In the narrow zone between clarity and ambiguity, confusion continues as always.
View more about Dekalog reviews
