ON THE MOVE

Still from Luc Lagier’s Kieslowski, Polish filmmaker.

“People are very lonely in general, I think, regardless of where they live. I often see this because I work abroad…I see that what really troubles people most and what they deceive themselves about most  - because they won’t admit it - is loneliness. It’s the fact that they haven’t anybody to talk to about really important matters. It’s the fact that through the increasing ease of everyday life what used to be important has, as it were, disappeared[…]. I get the impression, more and more, that although people are lonely, many of them, paradoxically, want to get rich to allow themselves the luxury of being alone, of distancing themselves from others… . On the one hand, people are terribly afraid of loneliness. When I ask: what are you really afraid of?, I often hear the reply “ I’m afraid of being alone”…and yet, at the same time, there’s this urge to be independent. Each of the characters in “A short story about killing” lives alone and is, in fact, incapable of doing much. They can’t decide about anything other than their own fate.”