What year were you born? Who are you? What do you most wish for?
These are three questions director Krzysztof Kieslowski asks of approximately forty different people ranging in age from an infant up to an elderly woman who has hit the century mark. Filmed in Poland in 1980, the piece seems to be a reflection of the times. It's a somber film in tone, though the responses one hears carry an uplifting message, in as much as many of the interviewees express their personal desires for freedom, democracy, tolerance, justice, security and peace. These goals transcend an individual's desire for personal fame or riches, an outcome that one might have expected if the film were made today. Or perhaps not. Most of the people answering the questions had a thoughtful approach and appeared to take the questions seriously. Dispensing with a verbal response to the first question, the film short acknowledged the birth year of each respondent, as each successive person was older than the one before. I thought the film ended with an odd yet optimistic response from a hundred year old woman.
What did she most wish for? "I'd like to live longer!"
These are three questions director Krzysztof Kieslowski asks of approximately forty different people ranging in age from an infant up to an elderly woman who has hit the century mark. Filmed in Poland in 1980, the piece seems to be a reflection of the times. It's a somber film in tone, though the responses one hears carry an uplifting message, in as much as many of the interviewees express their personal desires for freedom, democracy, tolerance, justice, security and peace. These goals transcend an individual's desire for personal fame or riches, an outcome that one might have expected if the film were made today. Or perhaps not. Most of the people answering the questions had a thoughtful approach and appeared to take the questions seriously. Dispensing with a verbal response to the first question, the film short acknowledged the birth year of each respondent, as each successive person was older than the one before. I thought the film ended with an odd yet optimistic response from a hundred year old woman.
What did she most wish for? "I'd like to live longer!"