Shannon Corcoran Blog #5 The Decalogue

The Midrash in the first segment of the film can be the computer compared to a false god. The father trusted the computer for detailed calculations while not putting his faith in God. The father believed in everything the computer said but he did not believe in God. When his son went out ice skating, the ice cracked and the boy drowned. The father paid an ultimate price for putting is faith in the computer, a false god. Although the meaning of the film was not obvious because it was a little hard to find out what the other god was and what the punishment was.
The Midrash in the second segment of the film is the act of killing. The main character killed a person but later on he regrets the killing. He kills not thinking on the crime he did nor what the reactions were going to be. To me it was harder to find the meaning behind the story and how it will affect the characters in the story.
Some of the visuals that gap the understanding of the film are the snow in the first segment. The snow is a symbol of death. Also snow is a symbol of sadness. The death and sadness is of that of the little boy. The ice breaks killing the boy. With the ice breaking also can symbolize in the film the breaking structure of truth the father had with the computer. Once the ice broke the truth in the computer also broke.
A visual in the second segment of the film is rope. Rope ties us together and shows where it have been. When the main character kills with some rope. Later, when the main character is being executed, he dies by being hung. The material on which he is hang is rope.
The films relate to feeling because we know what death is and the fear of death. The films shows how some people try to avoid death, either by trusting in a computer or fighting to avoid being executed. The films also shows the effects of death, either it is new or been a while. They show people are sadden by the deaths.
With the flux of the moment people do things on what they think is right or fun. But with the eternity on their hands people will regret the actions they did. In the first segment the action the father regretted is trusting solely on the computer and nothing else. While in the second segment the main character regretted killing the person because now he has to die. The father has to live with eternity regretting his actions. While the eternity of the main character in the second segment is death. He will forever be dead.