The color is different here than in some of the other episodes of the Dekalog. It's a little more sepia in the outdoor scenes, or just desaturated. Memory loses its meaning, and yet it has a quality where you can't let go. A guy walks around town, and a little girl looks different... This guys a punk, scaring pigeons and so on... A picture hanger... Knocked over in the stall... I'm not sure why it keeps cutting back to the guy in the room talking about crimes of the world. Following this disaffected youth is really really fascinating. Kind of like following Raskolnikov... When he flings the food at the window, kids on the other side, you can have that distance and being an asshole is fine... (This other guy maybe is a lawyer)...
I love how this is shot. Its like the world is all gray like children of men... The music like a horror film... The murder, they don't show the neck, they mostly show the feet, the tire screeching.... This isn't like "movie" deaths. Its slow, painful, and even the horse turns to see the horn being pulled... I didn't expect the beating. Brutal. Staring at him... Nevermind how he was caught... Now its about the lawyer trying the case. He was for capitol punishment, now against... While this is set in modern times, everything evokes time eternal. The hangman setting up the noose is done without a word. Its a mini-masterpiece of pure storytelling... And it ends with the hard conversation to have. What's special here is to find humanity in a young but cold-blooded killer (and the story of how his sister was killed). Great acting too by the young man.
I love how this is shot. Its like the world is all gray like children of men... The music like a horror film... The murder, they don't show the neck, they mostly show the feet, the tire screeching.... This isn't like "movie" deaths. Its slow, painful, and even the horse turns to see the horn being pulled... I didn't expect the beating. Brutal. Staring at him... Nevermind how he was caught... Now its about the lawyer trying the case. He was for capitol punishment, now against... While this is set in modern times, everything evokes time eternal. The hangman setting up the noose is done without a word. Its a mini-masterpiece of pure storytelling... And it ends with the hard conversation to have. What's special here is to find humanity in a young but cold-blooded killer (and the story of how his sister was killed). Great acting too by the young man.