The original version of Decalogue Six is the only film in the series to be “read” not realistically but symbolically, as a parable, a magnificent parable of love. An innocent young man, post-office employee and student of languages, is in love with an older and elegant artist, who entertains men in her apartment across the courtyard from him. He spies on her nighttime trysts with a telescope, he delivers milk to her door in the morning, he telephones the woman and awkwardly tries to tell her he loves her. “Love doesn’t exist,” the woman insists harshly, as she violently destroys his illusions. The guileless man’s desperate reaction signals the beginning of a dramatic change in the woman as she discovers a new way of living. Not by chance, the woman’s name is “Magda.”

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