Ahhh, the layers... the layers is what makes such seemingly easy-to-digest 60 minute episodes turn into something to dwell on forever.
In this particular episode, involving the commandment "Thou shalt not steal," a young mother tries to reclaim her true daughter from her grandmother-cum-legal mother, and the drama that develops as they try to work out what was hidden long before to avoid scandal.
Of course a huge issue involves who rightfully should be mother to the young girl... is it by blood, legality, comfort, choice? Any of those? And who stole from whom here, anyway, the grandmother from the mother, the mother from the grandmother, or even simply societal decency? Furthermore, what else is really being taken here? There's also issues of pride, a missing childhood, and an entire relationship ruined.
Of all of the episodes of the Decalogue, this is one I feel I could return to quite often to try to figure out the questions I have been given above, as it has so much going on behind hidden motivations and secrecy.
--PolarisDiB
In this particular episode, involving the commandment "Thou shalt not steal," a young mother tries to reclaim her true daughter from her grandmother-cum-legal mother, and the drama that develops as they try to work out what was hidden long before to avoid scandal.
Of course a huge issue involves who rightfully should be mother to the young girl... is it by blood, legality, comfort, choice? Any of those? And who stole from whom here, anyway, the grandmother from the mother, the mother from the grandmother, or even simply societal decency? Furthermore, what else is really being taken here? There's also issues of pride, a missing childhood, and an entire relationship ruined.
Of all of the episodes of the Decalogue, this is one I feel I could return to quite often to try to figure out the questions I have been given above, as it has so much going on behind hidden motivations and secrecy.
--PolarisDiB