Way of Lesser Resistance

Katka is an ordinary Slovak woman at the beginning of her independent life. Expectations and demands of the others - her boyfriend, her parents and the surroundings - fill up her mind. The others are elder, more experienced with a clear concept concerning Katka’s behavior and her duties. When in her childhood she did not do what she had been told, she was simply beaten and it worked like that. Fear seems to function nowadays. It also induced her habit of telling lies in order to comply with the wishes of the other side: she says what the others want to hear. She gets to be wound up in her own words and acts and so she hangs back in the shelter of promises... Katka’s parents’ generation only had limited possibilities due to the closed system of the Eastern block up to 1989. The social reality has substantially changed since then, but people’s way of thinking changes slower. Not only that young generation’s values differ from the elder, but the whole hierarchy of values of society has undergone a transformation in the last twenty years. The material well-being becomes the measure of success. We cannot recognize the human beings as our closest ones with their confused opinions, relative values and in unstable financial conditions.