I had forgotten how lovely the movie Red was -- it was beautifully structured from beginning to end, a perfect unfolding. But I've been struggling with how the judge, after meeting Valentine, turns himself in. She's judged him, and he's judged himself, when previously he'd existed in a kind of eavesdropping condition that was outside of judgement -- somewhat sympathetic to the crimes and cruelty of other people, and then Valentine comes in with her "moral clarity" and rehabilitates him.

It's possible Kieslowski is a religious man. He did, after all, make The Decalogue, a powerful series of one hour television shows for Polish TV, each about one of the ten commandments.

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