The second of Kieslowski's trilogy tackles Equality, mainly by
focusing on imbalance and impotence. One dimension of this is
political; the film is a snapshot of post-Cold War Europe, as
Zamachowski's Polish hairdresser moves through the vicious new
economy of the East, and the worn-out materialism of the West, in search
of vengeance on his wife (Delpy). He does finally gain it - and some kind
of romantic equivalence - but at what cost and to which ends? Meaningful
Equality, Kieslowski seems to suggest, is just not possible in such a
fragmented world.
