Dekalog 2

Before jumping into the conclusion of episode 2 of The Dekalog, I need to return to a matter of controversy. The second commandment is about the worshipping of false idols -- graven images. But if you do a Google search about the topic of episode two, everyone concludes that this

Dorota arrives at the hospital, where a nurse tells her that the doctor has made an exception -- presumably to give her a status update on her husband. I would hope that partners would have the right to daily visitations at this hellish hospital, but who knows. As Dorota is

I noted in the first episode of the Dekalog a silent watcher. In that episode, he seemed to be a homeless man. He sat next to the pond with his dog, who then froze to death. At the conclusion of the episode, he had disappeared. Since we did not see

The doctor is able to slip Dorota for a at least a few minutes, long enough to get into his apartment and to see a note from his housekeeper that says she repotted the cactus and received some response “from the advert.” So apparently he was circling some kind of

I neglected to mention a couple details in my last scene recap. Before Dorota meets the office clerk at her front door to receive her husband’s sick pay, she systematically destroys a plant. She does this by snapping up all of the large leaves, one at a time, and

Dorota is facing a moral dilemma. Remember, however, that this episode isn’t about adultery or killing, it’s about making false witness. (Again, we have no definitive word on this either, it could be about graven images.) So, perhaps, the crucial moral choice in this episode is not hers.