The Decalogue is a
series of episodes created to explore the emotions of the Ten
Commandments. The episode which really
impacted me was the episode on the commandment “Thou shalt have no gods before
Me.” It focused on a father and his
named Pavel. Pavel’s father was
extremely smart and understood everything has fact and technological. While Pavel appreciated technology like his
father, he was also very curious about religion and immaterial things. Pavel’s father calculated the thickness of
ice on the iced over pond near their apartment and told Pavel that it was safe
for him to go out on the ice. However,
his calculations failed him and Pavel slipped through the ice. The tragic event which led to Pavel’s death
was because of a mistake made by technology.
This made me think of how reliant society is on technology these days
and how we sometimes forget to look beyond material things. While this episode was based on not worshipping
false gods, I think it can also serve as a representation of how much
technology has taken over the world recently.
If we took a step back from technology for a week or even a day, how
different would we see the world around us?
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