The finest of Kieslowski's trilogy makes sense of the whole. His notion
of Fraternity has to do with the idea that you might walk past the most
important people in your life every day without recognising them. Thus
far in the trilogy, characters have crossed paths, but their stories
haven't overlapped; even within individual films, relationships are
tenuous. But Red's dominant colour is the warmest, and here at last,
connections are made - most memorably in the final scenes, but
throughout the encounters between a compassionate Jacob and the
ageing, God-like judge Trintignant. Without such Fraternity, the
trilogy argues, all the Liberty and Equality in the world isn't enough.
