Kieślowski expands the fifth segment of his Dekalog, into a feature set during the final years of communist rule in Poland. In the first section, a drifter brutally murders a taxi driver. In the second, the drifter is executed by the state. “Devoid of sentimentality, self-satisfaction, and subconscious sexiness, A Short Film about Killing has the coolness and rigor of a mathematical proof. Yet few films have cried more passionately and articulately against the cycle of human violence” -David Kehr, The New York Daily News.