Dekalog (1989–1990): Season 1, Episode 1 - Dekalog, jeden - full transcript

Eleven... twelve...

Thirteen... fourteen...

I couldn't go on

Dad?

Could you think of
something, Dad?

Kermit running away.
From Miss Piggy...

riding a sledge at sixty-two
kilometers per hour

Piggy chasing him, skiing at
eighty-seven kilometers per hour

How much later has she left?

Three minutes

Fix the numerical value



It'll catch up 626seconds later

I made it, Dad

She'll catch up with him in ten
minutes and twenty-six seconds!

Hi

Come on in

Cold, isn't it?

Say, somebody dies abroad

Would his obituary be
published, too?

Possibly...

You see, there are paid ads
You pay, they publish ??

Why do people die?

It depends...
Heart failure cancer...

Accidents, or just old age...

I mean, what is death?



Death?

The heart ceases
to pump blood...

Blood fails to reach the brain...

Everything stops... stops dead...

...and that's it

What remains?

Everything you did

The memory of what you did,
of you as a person

Memory's quite important,
I guess

You remember there was
somebody who walked

with a funny leap,
or who was a kind man

You remember his face, his smile...
the gap in his front teeth...

Come on, Pawel, not yet

What do you want?
It's too early

Turned sour, eh?

Yeah...

It says here, a requiem mass...
may her soul rest in peace...

You never said anything
about the soul

It's just a way to bid farewell...

There isn't any soul...

Aunt Irena says there is...

Some people just find
life easier if they believe in it...

What about you?

Me?

I really don't know

What are you thinking about?

It's nothing... it's just...

I was so glad in the morning when I
managed to get that calculation right

And then the pigeon came
for the bread crumbs

But I went shopping
and saw a dead dog

I knelt over him, and I said
to myself, what good is it?

Who needs the information
how long it will take

Miss Piggy to
catch up with Kermit

It doesn't make any sense

Which dog was it?

The one with the yellow eyes

You could always find him
at the dust-bins

Yes?

Maybe he's better off where he is
now. How do you think

We have visited School No 218
to talk to the head-master

I see you distribute milk
to the children

Yes, We've made
an arrangement with the dairy

The children get a glass of milk
each during the long break

But this milk tastes foul
The children pour it down the toilet!

Not in our school,
during the long break

What is it that you've got?

A guinea pig

What for?

I brought it to biology classes
But the teacher is scared of it

Look, it's got sharp teeth,
hasn't it?

Pawel!

Just one more time!

Pawel!

What's for dinner?

Soup and something
to follow, right?

Sure it is, I'm hungry

Some TV people came to
our school today

Why?

I don't know, something about milk
They told us to run about

Did you?

Of course I did

Want to take your bag home?

Yes, I've got a great thing
to show to you

See?

Stop at the door

Which door?

The front one

O.K. I'm ready

Now watch it,
it's going to lock it...

Has it?

Yes

Now it's going to unlock it

So it has

Go to the bathroom

But don't touch anything

Watch the tap

Water

Look what I programmed

I got a letter from Mum,
saying what

she does during the day,
hour after hour

Well, I fed that into its memory,

and I added the time
difference, too

It's now...

thirty-three minutes past three...?

Mama 15.33

She's asleep

Ask it what she's dreaming about

what does she dreaming about?

I do not know

It doesn't know

Do you know what you
Mum's dreaming about?

No, I guess I don't

Why that's simple, you...

Me?

Of course

She's dreaming about you

Not about Dad?

Who knows...

Know what he's doing?

More or less...

Christ!

What is it?

I'm hungry

Let's go

I wish Dad let me try his one

It would surely know
what Mum's dreaming about

Care for a race?

O.K.

Do you want odds?

Not today, well

Go!

That was good

Want me to wash the dishes?

No, thanks
I'll do it

I want to show you something

Hey, Pawel

Come here!

That was when you brought
that pink pen-case for me?

Right, I had them developed

Know who it is?

Yes

Is he... kind?

Yes...

And wise?

How do you think... Does he know
what people live for?

I guess He does

Dad says we all live to
make life easier...

...for those who come after us

But sometimes we fail

Yes, that's right
Sometimes we fail

You know...

What matters in life is that
you can do some thing for others

help them...

Whenever you do somebody
a favor, no matter how small

You feel they need you

And then, life's easier

There are big and
small things you can do

Say today, you liked the ravioli
and that made me happy

Life is...

...a present

a gift, you know

I say

Dad's you brother, right?

Don't you know?

Ah, you mean,

Why we're different?

Your father and I...
We grew up in a Catholic family

But you Dad noticed very early...

...that a lot of things could be
counted and measured...

And then he started to believe that
everything could...

He still thinks so today

I guess he has doubts sometimes...
but he won't admit it

A life like your Dad lives
may seem more reasonable

But it doesn't mean
there's no God

...for your Father, too...
Know what I mean?

I'm not sure

There is God

It's very simple... if you believe

Do you?

Do you believe in God?

Yes

Who is He?

What do you feel?

I love you

Exactly... And this is what God is...

Checkmate!

That's would be too simple

She's already won six games

Checkmate

Seven

But look, she'll use
the queen as a shield,

and then we've got her
where he want her

Checkmate

I told you...
She plays routine games

Well, what happens now?

The bishop - and checkmate

Checkmate

Congratulations

Thank you

Is that you, Pawel?

Yes

Have you talked to your father?

Hey, Dad... It's Aunt Irena

Well?

She wants to know
if it's all right with you

Irena?

I enrolled him for religious
instruction. Has he told you?

Well, if that's what he wants

Of course, if that's what he needs

I talked...

to the priest

Oh, you did?

They're building a new church
not far from your house

The priest is a young man
I think Pawel's going to like him

How about tomorrow?

No, thanks, I can manage...
Well, bye

Pawel...

Did you switch it on?

No, I never touched it

Hey, mate

what do you want?

I am ready

Switch yourself off, will you?

What if - if it really
wanted something?

Like what?

I don't know, but you asked him
Hey, mate, what do you want?

Just trying to be funny

It's half past nine, time to bed

Are you going out?

Yeah... But I'll leave
the lights on for you

Have you checked
the thermometer?

Yes, it's fourteen degrees
below zero

Think Mum's going to phone
before Christmas?

I guess so

Group one: Juda, judasz, judzic

Group two: Podbechtywac,
podskakiwac, podkopywac...

Group three: Dranstwo, zaprzanstwo,
swinstwo, koltunstwo, panstwo

These are associative fields

Now...

Take a word which does not exist
in the Polish language

But which we find rather
easy to understand

The problem only arises when we try
to translate it into another language

In exceptional cases only,
a foreign language

become one's own
intimate language

We may have a very good
rational knowledge

...of that language

We may be able to use it to
discuss most intricate problems

Have an immense vocabulary

But - that's it
how could we get...?

To what's hidden deep
behind the separate words

syllable and letters?

How could we discover that
language's cultural heritage?

How could we formulate its
connections with history, politics

...culture and everyday life

How to know and understand...?

...all that creates the
spirit of a language,

its metasemantics...

or perhaps even
its metaphpysics?

According to Elliot, poetry is...

...untranslatable

But was Elliot necessarily right?

Imagine a translator who...

...is able to accumulate
the entire knowledge

there is about words
or about a language

A translator who has
an unlimited memory...

that can be drawn from any time

Used in an unconventional way,

a computer may be something -
somebody - liomebody - like that

Consider that instrument

it seems to discern just two figures,
zero and one

But actually it not only has something
that might be called intelligence

but also a kind of consciousness
it select which means it makes a choice

Or perhaps it might be
called conation?

As I see it,

an appropriately...

programmed computer may have...

it's own taste

Aesthetical preferences...

Individuality...

Ah, yes...!

For our next class...

Please choose a line of any text...

and do what i did

with that word I conceive myself

I hope it's not too much
for homework

Is it?
That's good

Look,
I left it here for one hour only

Would tea freeze, too?

Yes

Just touch it

Hey, be careful... it's glass

Great, isn't it?

Leave it in the tub...

No, let's leave it here and
check what happens

Nothing, it's going to melt as
soon as a thaw sets in, what else?

Or maybe during the day,
in the sun...

Let's calculate it

You promised?

Oh, all right

It would be wrong to assume that
the temperature never goes up

Say, it's below zero during the
night only About ten hours

But we need precise data

O.K.

All right, call the Meteorological
Institute and ask them...

about the temperature
near the ground today

yesterday, and the
day before yesterday

Hello... Is this the
Meteorological Institute?

I need information
about the temperature

near the ground, please... today...

Yesterday...

And the day before yesterday

Yes, in Warsaw
Thank you, good-bye

What's the pressure formula?

P equals F divided by S

Fine... Now, the temperature?

Eleven today, fourteen yesterday

and twelve and a half
the day before yesterday

There's been frost
for eight days now

Well?

As you see: Maximum load is
257kg/m2<

It means a fellow three times
your weight

...can skate safely

Really?

Can I have them?

Have what?

What I was to get for Christmas,
From Mum and you

Can I have them?

I found those skating boots...

Where?

In the counch...

Can I have them?

Lake depth: 3.5m

Maximum load: 257kg/m2<

How's the size?

They're perfect

Well, then... Put off
your clothes and go to bed

I'm going for a walk
by the time I'm back

You asleep?

No, I've been
watching them shine

I checked the ice

That's why I couldn't sleep
I guessed where you went

It's all right

But promise never to come close
to where the river falls into the lake

Keep a distance of fifteen meter,
right? The river never freezes

O.K., fifteen meters it is

It's a shallow river but I don't
want you to take a bath in it

Where's your elephant?

Asleep

Is Pawel home?

No, why?

I don't know
Mum wanted to know

Pawel? Where are you, Pawel?
Over

This is your father calling...
Pawel? Over

Mummy!

Mummy...

Jacek darling!
Where have you been, sonny?

We've been playing in that old car

Come on, dear, we're going home

Excuse me, sir
Pawel was...

to phone me in the afternoon

Do you remember me, sir?

That boy might know something

Which boy?

The small one, Jacek

Please wait a moment

He didn't play with us

He skated on the lake!

On the lake!

I am ready...