I desperately need an explanation of this film! *spoilers*

"I didn't understand what was happening toward the end."

Lucky you, man. I didn't understand the beginning, middle or end. We need a Kieslowski fanboy to help us out.

I didn't find it boring, though. I plan to rewatch it soon. Kieslowski needs some digestion time before you can properly assimilate his stuff.

"Help!"

I second that motion.



"Rape is no laughing matter. Unless you're raping a clown."

You were probably expecting some action, or at least something practical. Well, this movie is about feelings. About emotions. The movie is all revolved around emotions, their emotions. You just looked too much into it. You'd just have to watch it and enjoy the beauty of the feelings and emotions expressed. For example, the puppeter is sugestive. The way he discovers their lives and plays with them... sort of like God. Or the old woman. Or that woman that gives bad looks to Veronique all the time. Or the way relationships with they fathers are portrayed. Or the black lace that Weronika keeps... when she sings, she pulls it and it becomes straight, just like when someone dies in the hospital (at this point we know that Weronika has a heart condition). They are not explained in the movie, because that was not the idea. The idea of the movie was that all the things in the world are connected. Hence the last scene, where she touches that tree and her father the other one and he feels the presence.

I always thought that scene was suggestive too, because the tree she touches is alive, just like her, while the other one, the one her father works with is dead, like Weronika. And they feel the connection because, and i reapeat, everything is connected. So no, Veronique is not the same person with Weronika, (as you can see they actually meet each other, and that phenomena is called doppelganger and usually announces death.)
As someone once said, Kieslowski is pure visual poetry with deep philosophical message, but not everybody can understand that.

artful films like Amadeus or la Vie en Rose

I don't understand it yet. Still loved it. I have time to revisit.

My favorite movie of all time. I was swept away by the beauty and mystery in this film. Sorry you did not enjoy it, because there if something there if you try not to look too hard.

What were you expecting from it, and why did you watch it? I see it as you get with twins sometimes - a kind of connection between them. Here we get two unrelated women, but connected by appearance and perhaps time of birth. Some unknown connection exists between them, which V feels when W dies. Then all these similarities and coincidences they share.