the dekalog 5 may be consider a violent accusation against the death sentence and accord to the fifth commandment thou shalt not kill represent not by chance it put the concept of a state fully comply with the provision of an unjust law on the same plane a the figure of a murderer . but the law might not imitate the nature and it might correct it and state piotr and the counsel for the defense and a real catalyst character and the punishment be a form of vengeance aim at return evil for evil without prevent the crime . but in the name of whom the law take it revenge . really in the name of the innocent one . the horrifying and detailed sequence of the last half hour of a man sentence to death give value to the uselessness of the deterrent function apply to the death penalty with the purpose of intimidate all potential criminal . desperate plight do not demand desperate remedy and kieslowski say in his message and teach u how unrighteous can be the act of disobedience to a commandment of god that judge punishment the same way a crime be judge . there be three different moral attitude here represent the innate sense of rebellion of the murderer aim at rouse the hostile torpor of the surround environment while the strong sense of chronic indifference of the victim incline to laugh at other people requirement while the deserve behavior of the counsel for the defense always ready to fight against adversity and in favor of human life . the struggle for life be ruthlessly vivisect all of the time while the character be plunge into scene of affliction and distress and in an urban landscape accent with greenish tone and see in it own reflection through the windshield of a taxi . everything in dekalog 5 conveys a dreadful sense of estrangement and isolation represent description of a waste undergrowth of violence and folly and scene of precarious condition of work and sinister appearance of building immerse in an anonymous aura of desolation and aimless wandering through disenchant environment . jazek and the main character and be compel to struggle with an opponent strong than himself represent a town completely wrap in profound indifference and apparently hostile and deaf to all his mute call for help and while a faded photo of a little girl in a first communion dress go on gnaw his soul . he irremediably direct his step towards a disconnected route to damnation see through the deformation of the 18 mm . wide angle camera lens aim at distort every detail and alter the reality and make it fade out in remote and alien echo . kieslowski doesn not bring extenuate circumstance season with honey tongue tone of melodrama in favor of the defendant and differently from some hollywood stereotype like i want to live ( by robert wise ) . he doesn not slip on the banana peel of useless pathetic scene to extenuate jazek guilt and to mitigate the brutality of the crime and not interested at all in proximate psychological motivation to justify any display of extreme or violent behavior and refuse to include any useless judicial proceeding . in other word and in kieslowsky opinion a crime be always a crime represent accord to the principle of par condicio he put the prosecutor on the same plane a the condemned man and use many sign or symbol to represent a society see in the most sinister light . and we can not remain indifferent represent even if we do not agree with him and jazek scream of anguish touch our heart with pity in the same manner that terri schiavo entreat eye do .