I am highlighting this entry, originally published as part of my series on the canonical "Big Ones" in November 2011, for the Anniversary Archive series. Comments, sharing, bookmarks, and recommendations are welcome on the original piece, also linked after the intro.
In case you missed it, yesterday's entry was a mock-letter to Roger Rabbit. Also, last night I posted my latest #WatchlistScreenCaps round-up.
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This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers.
Like many films in this series (Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, and Fantasia all come to mind) The Decalogue is simultaneously one film and many. Today I watched the whole film straight through, stopping here and there to sum up my thoughts, each chapter a single page of a legal pad (although I'll admit I ended up doodling in the margins as well!). What follows is a sort of viewer's diary, chronicling my journey through this magnificent opus for the second time, my first viewing in a half-decade.