What would I do if I was there (that person was me)?

There are many descriptions or hints of death in Kee's works, and it is often the death of a person who has a good reason to live: the third paragraph of "Song of Opportunity" is politically neutral, and Wei, who is content with family life, dies. Teke; the "ghost" lawyer in "Never End", and his wife Ursula who has a smart son who works as a translator; the angelic child Pavel in "Ten Commandments 1"; already evident in "Two Flowers" Polish Veronica, who felt unwell in her heart. The theme of death in Kee's works is often a random act, whether it is for a reason or no reason, and the audience always feels powerless. The Ten Commandments, in particular, is almost a series of discussions on death, but behind this is still people's loneliness, contradictions and fears for the future. At the time of "The Ten Commandments," Keith had realized that political background was irrelevant in the mid-1980s, and that politics could not answer the basic questions of human nature: what is the real meaning of life, why do you have to get up in the morning and go to bed at night. He hates life in Poland, and fears people's tension and disillusionment. He tries to make the audience think about the trade-off between morality and ethics through different people who are in dilemma of life and morality, except "who am I" and "what am I going to do" Do", "The Ten Commandments" is more about what is right and what is wrong? What is lie and what is truth? What would I do if I was there (that person was me)? Should we be afraid of life, of sin? The Ten Commandments are considered a moral code, but people break them all the time.
"A Short Story About Murder" tells the story of a boy who was executed by law after a boy brutally killed a taxi driver. In the setting of this story, Ji's extremely cold attitude guides the audience to think step by step: from the background of the environment, they all live alone, neither the boy Jacek nor the driver have any background introduction, the audience cannot directly like A sense of identification with Pavel like that, arouses sympathy. In "Ten Commandments One", Pavel asked his father about death, and the father's answer was that if the heart stopped beating, it was death, and in "A Short Story About Murder", it is not difficult to find that death is an extremely cruel and violent thing , the meaning of life is very important, but more is the lack of sympathy for each other, people hate each other, alone, lack of basic humanity and warmth, leading to murder is a common phenomenon, this common phenomenon does not rule out elegant Zeck was executed, but his murder was a death sentence. Death is the highest act of violence, but the gratuitousness and randomness of death adds to the cruelty. The film begins with dead cockroaches in tree holes, dead mice by a dirty green pool, and a hanged cat all implying a dark and scary world. Jacek wanders aimlessly around the city like a ghost, and Pilcher faces it again. The answer to the question "Why do you want to be a lawyer" becomes "I don't know". In the four years of Pilch's case, it is nothing more than people's lives. The law is a social function, people need it, but other than that, in real life, whether everyone is as Pilch said is asking Does what you do have any meaning? The answer in the film is an obvious no. Including Jacek's murder target, he can be a taxi driver who hates cats and refuses to pick up waiting passengers, or an old lady who lets Jacek leave in the square, or a bad-toned movie conductor, who keeps whistling in the toilet with malicious intent. Man, Jacek chose the driver for no other reason than to do so, not even before the murder with the proper fear of sin. If you have to go deeper, the girl in red selling potatoes is the connection between them, but Keith did not give more clues to explain that Jacek killed the driver for this girl, because he was a taxi driver. accidental choice.
There are two depressing killings in the film: Jacek tells the driver to go around, the rope in his hand ready. He was asked to stop on the side of the road, but the driver refused. He strangled the rope to the driver's neck. Someone passed by on a bicycle, but no abnormality was found, only a horse did. Keith once mentioned the meaning of horses, saying that horses are a kind of desire, they have and can do whatever they want, they run freely without responsibility and obligation. The horse that appears here also implies that Jacek's murder is not only random, but also very smooth, even passing trains are masking the driver's whistle for help. Jacek finally succeeded in the murder with a large rock, this vivid murder film took nearly seven minutes, is the longest murder in film history. Another killing was the execution of the law against Jacek, the preparation of the torturer, the blessing of the priest, the heavy breathing. The waiting time for a cigarette is also a rope, which is pulled hard and quickly. In the end, Jacek ends like a hanged cat in the beginning. The box at the bottom contains his excrement. In the film, this legal The sentencing process took four minutes.
The two time-consuming and detailed murders are a kind of torture to the audience by Keith. How much can the audience endure while watching the perpetrator and the victim? What attitude should one have towards sin and death and life. At the end of the film, Pilche became a father after failing to defend, and it was the beginning of a life. Compared with death, Keith himself has already stated in the second paragraph of "Song of Opportunity" that "life is a gift".

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