Kieslowski’s incredibly moving miniseries follows a series of interconnected characters as they wrestle with trauma, morality, and limitations.
I recently finished Kieslowski's Dekalog, a great miniseries that follows a revolving set of fictional characters facing ethical dilemmas in '80s Warsaw. Each episode is inspired by one of the Ten Commandments and the nuanced ways people can and do break them. The writers handle this (IMO) in ways both fiercely political and kind. Also, in an era that puts so much artistic value in CGI, loaded backstory, and sloppy cynicism, I was relieved to find a work that embraces the magic that can occur when you've got two characters alone in a room talking. The series is somber in tone with the exception of the last episode where the Tenth Commandment is explored via black comedy, not unlike the Greek tradition of the satyr play. The writers subtly and not so subtly nod to the Greeks throughout the series, most beautifully by way of the Aristotelian idea that plot is a blend of unified actions and that when a story's ideas are dramatized rather than told, we find ourselves in the very center of a person's magnificent heart. What peace.