No End/Bez Konca

Bez Konca / No End

Film by Krzysztof Kieslowski

"And I don't even know how it happened

To change from wolf into mangy dog

Maybe my muzzle lost the wind's dark touch

My howling no longer scowled at the sky

A flicker of fear, not a boisterous flame

Stormed upon my back

Maybe no one needed to put this collar on me

And I myself crawled over

To beg fawning and dog like

Lord, who lovest even those who grovel

And can kindle pride in a worm's pale blood

Help open the throat of one mutely shouting

And tell me to walk free even though i'm weeping"

The film ended with this poem, read by the lawyer, with his calmly voice, to the wife who lost her husband.

A woman spend too much time thinking of death, sacrifice, and love, the weight her mind could carry is too much for her physical state, so she is dead.

A man spend too much time thinking of sacrifice, moral, and majority profit, he couldn't accept the argument condition brought by the lawyer, so he is dead.

This is two major keys run through the movie.

The movie started with soliloquize, " Four days ago, i am dead..." the husband dead and the wife left alone. Many little detail capture her endurance and torturing with the life: the glass slipping through her fingers, the dirt on her hand from bumper while she saw a car accident, the fingers twisting with stocking while talking with psychologist. 

Simple but painful.

When the old lawyer works on the law case, in the end, he was in a daze and talked to the younger lawyer, "Whom do we really defend? Against whom? Against what?"...

The movie was made during the gloomy period in Polish history in the 1980s, the politic background is inevitable, however, humanity and individual is certainly more important for the director, a beautiful, confused and grieving wife is an example of the whole. Life is a tragic process. If you decide to live...you must learn to endure. The lawyer spoke to the worker in the film, is also an expression of the director's self.