My favourite film is The Decalogue, a series of ten 1-hour films by Kieslowski. A grey apartment complex in Poland encapsulates so many extraordinary happenstances of ordinary lives.

A child dies because his father has miscalculated the thickness of ice.

A young girl plans to seduce a man who may or may not be her real father.

A man sells his kidney for stamps.

A woman turns a teenger stalker into a hapless victim.

An executioner murders a murderer.

Scriptures leave no room for moral dilemmas. Laws do not account for the close-up faces of desire, or torment, or despair. Commandments of "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not" are so absurd here, because human lives are always human-like: intertwined, ambivalent, circumstantial.

— 2005. 11. 03