A Short Film about Killing (1988)
Country: POL
Technical: col 84m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz
Synopsis:
A youth kills a taxi driver and is killed by the state as an idealistic young lawyer looks on helpless.
Review:
Motivation and courtroom rhetoric are eschewed here; what we have instead is an intense, grimly realistic view of society, though perhaps pushed to extremes in its use of metaphor: the drowned rat and hanged cat in the opening shots. Kieslowski, who here opens out his 'Thou shalt not kill' segment from his Decalog, adopts a green filter and liberal use of iris shots to further unsettle the viewer.
Country: POL
Technical: col 84m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz
Synopsis:
A youth kills a taxi driver and is killed by the state as an idealistic young lawyer looks on helpless.
Review:
Motivation and courtroom rhetoric are eschewed here; what we have instead is an intense, grimly realistic view of society, though perhaps pushed to extremes in its use of metaphor: the drowned rat and hanged cat in the opening shots. Kieslowski, who here opens out his 'Thou shalt not kill' segment from his Decalog, adopts a green filter and liberal use of iris shots to further unsettle the viewer.
Country: POL
Technical: col 84m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz
Synopsis:
A youth kills a taxi driver and is killed by the state as an idealistic young lawyer looks on helpless.
Review:
Motivation and courtroom rhetoric are eschewed here; what we have instead is an intense, grimly realistic view of society, though perhaps pushed to extremes in its use of metaphor: the drowned rat and hanged cat in the opening shots. Kieslowski, who here opens out his 'Thou shalt not kill' segment from his Decalog, adopts a green filter and liberal use of iris shots to further unsettle the viewer.