In 1961, Stanislaw Rozewicz created the novella film "Birth Certificate" in cooperation with his brother, Taduesz Rozewicz as screenwriter. Such brother tandems are rare in the history of film but aside from family ties, Stanislaw (born in 1924) and Taduesz (born in 1921) were mutually bound by their love for the cinema. They were born and grew up in Radomsk, a small town which had "its madmen and its saints" and most importanly, the "Kinema" cinema, as Stanislaw recalls: for him cinema is "heaven, the whole world, enchantment". Tadeusz says he considers cinema both a charming market stall and a mysterious temple. "All this savage land has always attracted and fascinated me," he says. "I am devoured by cinema and I devour cinema; I'm a cinema eater." But Taduesz Rozewicz, an eminent writer, admits this unique form of cooperation was a problem to him: "It is the presence of the other person not only in the process of writing, but at its very core, which is inserperable for me from absolute solitude." Some scenes the brothers wrote together; others were created by the writer himself, following discussions with the director. But from the perspective of time, it is "Birth Certificate", rather than "Echo" or "The Wicked Gate", that Taduesz describes as his most intimate film. This is understandable. The tradgey from September 1939 in Poland was for the Rozewicz brothers their personal "birth certificate". When working on the film, the director said "This time it is all about shaking off, getting rid of the psychological burden which the war was for all of us. ... Cooperation with my brother was in this case easier, as we share many war memories. We wanted to show to adult viewers a picture of war as seen by a child. ... In reality, it is the adults who created the real world of massacres. Children beheld the horrors coming back to life, exhumed from underneath the ground, overwhelming the earth."
The principle of composition of "Birth Certificate" is not obvious. When watching a novella film, we tend to think in terms of traditional theatre. We expect that a miniature story will finish with a sharp point; the three film novellas in Rozewicz's work lack this feature. We do not know what will be happen to the boy making his alone through the forest towards the end of "On the Road". We do not know whether in "Letter from the Camp", the help offered by the small heroes to a Soviet prisoner will rescue him from the unknown fate of his compatriots. The fate of the Jewish girl from "Drop of Blood" is also unclear. Will she keep her new impersonation as "Marysia Malinowska"? Or will the Nazis make her into a representative of the "Nordic race"? Those questions were asked by the director for a reason. He preceived war as chaos and perdition, and not as linear history that could be reflected in a plot. Although "Birth Certificate" is saturated with moral content, it does not aim to be a morality play. But with the immense pressure of reality, no varient of fate should be excluded. This approached can be compared wth Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" 25 years later, which pictured dramatic choices of a different era.
The film novella "On the Road" has a very sparing plot, but it drew special attention of the reviewers. The ominating overtone of the war films created by the Polish Film School at that time should be kept in mind. Mainly owing to Wajda, those films dealt with romantic heritage. They were permeated with pathos, bitterness, and irony. Rozewicz is an extraordinary artist. When narrating a story about a boy lost in a war zone, carrying some documents from the regiment office as if they were a treasure, the narrator in "On the Road" discovers rough prose where one should find poetry. And suddenly, the irrational touches this rather tame world. The boy, who until that moment resembled a Polish version of the Good Soldier Schweik, sets off, like Don Quixote, for his first and last battle. A critic described it as "an absurd gesture and someone else could surely use it to criticise the Polish style of dying. ... But the Rozewicz brothers do no accuse: they only compose an elegy for the picturesque peasant-soldier, probably the most important veteran of the Polish war of 1939-1945." "Birth Certificate" is not a lofty statement about national imponderabilia. The film reveals a plebeian perspective which Aleksander Jackieqicz once contrasted with those "lyrical lamentations" inherent in the Kordian tradition. However, a historical overview of Rozewicz's work shows that the distinctive style does not signify a fundamental difference in illustrating the Polish September. Just as the memorable scene from Wajda's "Lotna" was in fact an expression of desperation and distress, the same emotions permeate the final scene of "Birth Certificate". These are not ideological concepts, though once described as such and fervently debated, but rather psychological creations. In this specific case, observes Witold Zalewski, it is not about manifesting knightly pride, but about a gesture of a simple man who does not agree to be enslaved.
The novella "Drop of Blood" is, with Aleksander Ford's "Border Street", one of the first narrations of the fate of the Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. The story about a girl literally looking for her place on earth has a dramatic dimension. Especially in the age of today's journalistic disputes, often manipulative, lacking in empathy and imbued with bad will, Rozewicz's story from the past shocks with its authenticity. The small herione of the story is the only one who survives a German raid on her family home. Physical survial does not, however, mean a return to normality. Her frightened departure from the rubbish dump that was her hideout lead her to a ruined apartment. Her walk around it is painful because still fresh signs of life are mixed with evidence of annihilation. Help is needed, but Mirka does not know anyone in the outside world. Her subsequent attempts express the state of the fugitive's spirits - from hope and faith, moving to doubt, a sense of oppression, and thickening fear, and finally to despair.
At the same time, the Jewish girl's search for refuge resembles the state of Polish society. The appearance of Mirka results in confusion, and later, trouble. This was already signalled by Rozewicz in an exceptional scene from "Letter from the Camp" in which the boy's neighbour, seeing a fugitive Russian soldier, retreats immediately, admitting that "Now, people worry only about themselves." Such embarassing excuses mask fear. During the occupation, no one feels safe. Neither social status not the aegis of a charity organisation protects against repression. We see the potential guardians of Mirka passing her back and forth among themselves. These are friendly hands but they cannot offer strong support. The story takes place on that thin line between solidarity and heroism. Solidarity arises spontaneously, but only some are capable of heroism. Help for the girl does not always result from compassion; sometimes it is based on past relations and personal ties (a neighbour of the doctor takes in the fugitive for a few days because of past friendship). Rozewicz portrays all of this in a subtle way; even the smallest gesture has significance. Take, for example, the conversation with a stranger on the train: short, as if jotted down on the margin, but so full of tension. And earlier, a peculiar examination of Polishness: the "Holy Father" prayer forced on Mirka by the village boys to check that she is not a Jew. Would not rising to the challenge mean a death sentance?
Viewed after many years, "Birth Certificate" discloses yet another quality that is not present in the works of the Polish School, but is prominent in later B-class war films. This is the picture of everyday life during the war and occupation outlined in the three novellas. It harmonises with the logic of speaking about "life after life". Small heroes of Rozewicz suddenly enter the reality of war, with no experience or scale with which to compare it. For them, the present is a natural extension of and at the same time a complete negation of the past. Consider the sleey small-town marketplace, through which armoured columns will shortly pass. Or meet the German motorcyclists, who look like aliens from outer space - a picture taken from an autopsy because this is how Stanislaw and Taduesz perceived the first Germans they ever met. Note the blurred silhouettes of people against a white wall who are being shot - at first they are shocking, but soon they will probably become a part of the grim landscape. In the city centre stands a prisoner camp on a sodden bog ("People perish likes flies; the bodies are transported during the night"); in the street the childern are running after a coal wagon to collect some precious pieces of fuel. There's a bustle around some food (a boy reproaches his younger brother's actions by singing: "The warrant officer's son is begging in front of the church? I'm going to tell mother!"); and the kitchen, which one evening becomes the proscenium of a real drama. And there are the symbols: a bar of chocolate forced upon a boy by a Wehrmacht soldier ("On the Road"); a pair of shoes belonging to Zbyszek's father which the boy spontaneously gives to a Russian fugitive; a priceless slice of bread, ground under the heel of a policeman in the guter ("Letters from the Camp"). As the director put it: "In every film, I communicate my own vision of the world and of the people. Only then the style follows, the defined way of experiencing things." In Birth Certificate, he adds, his approach was driven by the subject: "I attempted to create not only the texture of the document but also to add some poetic element. I know it is risky but as for the merger of documentation and poety, often hidden very deep, if only it manages to make its way onto the screen, it results in what can referred to as 'art'."
After 1945, there were numerous films created in Europe that dealt with war and children, including "Somewhere in Europe" ("Valahol Europaban", 1947 by Geza Radvanyi), "Shoeshine" ("Sciescia", 1946 by Vittorio de Sica), and "Childhood of Ivan" ("Iwanowo dietstwo" by Andriej Tarkowski). Yet there were fewer than one would expect. Pursuing a subject so imbued with sentimentalism requires stylistic disipline and a special ability to manage child actors. The author of "Birth Certificate" mastered both - and it was not by chance. Stanislaw Rozewicz was always the beneficent spirit of the film milieu; he could unite people around a common goal. He emanated peace and sensitivity, which flowed to his co-workers and pupils. A film, being a group work, necessitates some form of empathy - tuning in with others.
In a biographical documentary about Stanislaw Rozewicz entitled "Walking, Meeting" (1999 by Antoni Krauze), there is a beautiful scene when the director, after a few decades, meets Beata Barszczewska, who plays Mireczka in the novella "Drops of Blood". The woman falls into the arms of the elderly man. They are both moved. He wonders how many years have passed. She answers: "A few years. Not too many." And Rozewicz, with his characteristic smile says: "It is true. We spent this entire time together."
导演的片基本都是这个调的，静下心来看也还行，还是最喜欢前作《四月の永い夢》后面几部感觉缺少灵性
看到最后感觉被耍了一顿，这么搞笑的自毁形式。疫情居家太搞笑，但是都高科技社会了，不会自动消毒or隐形口罩？
有进取心的导演会大胆预测，更会保留自己最擅长的风格又扩大审美追求的半径
被强权盯上到底有多惨，当权者不是耗死你就是弄死你，手段可谓是是无奇不有，怎么不要脸怎么来，这种情况下我们能做些什么呢？
有进取心的导演会大胆预测，更会保留自己最擅长的风格又扩大审美追求的半径，比如热内，热内的冷幽默一向会呼应人性：擅长骗炮的男人无法忍受没完没了的情
你让她等了你好久，好久，等到了晴空，等到了海的那一头。
很棒的电影。想不到是波兰拍得。我们中国什么时候也能拍出这样的电影
三星半。故事有点像黑镜中的某一集，色彩饱和度高，表演夸张。
一步步擦拭强权罪行，冗长且压抑。同时也挺绝望，因为它还在，正在发生
故事可以 拍的一般 太压抑 且太长了 很多没必要的桥段完全可以砍掉 然后整部片子就看得特别憋屈 乔治吧 坚守真相 但是怎么看都觉得是个懦弱的男孩子 给的戏份也不多 内心挣扎也很emm令人不适 芭芭拉我就更不能理解 乔治的爹说的那段话很有威慑力吗？那么容易就退出了？前面的坚守成了笑话？最后还面对媒体巴拉巴拉说了那些话 打不打脸啊？政府捂嘴威胁不让说真话 她又何尝不是一个帮凶 这个片子算是完美解释了啥叫“完美受害人” 确实是 太恶心了 巧的是前不久看了卡廷惨案 有相似之处 但是这部相比卡廷惨案就差太多了 都是在暴政下牺牲 这部连点儿希望都看不到 就算是要表现现实的无奈 但是也没必要用160分钟去讲一个如此emm词穷了 反正就不喜欢
基本是三倍速看完，看完之后只想说幸好是三倍速还不算是浪费了太多时间……海啸幸存者自述一整个在云端的既视感，然而故事没讲好，大量的时长也没拍出足够出色的氛围，看了个寂寞
曾经被问如果与人工智能恋爱拒绝吗 现在看来有个专门满足自己的仿生人简直不要太棒 还会去介意它只是个冷血机器吗
再短点会更好 还不够好玩 色彩很好 法国人这皮肤真不行
怎么会有这样的烂片，眼睛都不干净了，还浪费了我的生命，毁了我的心情，真是太糟了
典型的日影，风景真的蛮美的，特别是航拍大海的几个镜头，节奏很慢，剧情也很无聊，但对明亮色调的画面毫无抵抗力。
一开始以为是部311题材的悼亡片，但在堇的视角加入之后，看出了一点《横道世之介》的感觉。就像真奈问的那样，堇究竟是个什么样的人呢？她的头发越剪越短，她的内心离我们越来越远，即使没有海啸，她这台收音机是否也会对不上这个同一化社会的频道呢？电影由此更进一步，越来越无法做自己的堇形成一种对社会的批判。看得出来导演不太喜欢冲突比较强的场景，一直旁敲侧击地去表现情感，但有时候他反而不会做减法，所以影片显得冗长。
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还有芯片不是还在吗？为什么家里的机器人好像只是修好的？邻居的机器人好像还连修都没修？
痛苦，看得好痛苦，美女也无法拯救这份痛苦！！不怎么会看到如此贫瘠寡淡无趣的视觉语言表现，充斥着大多的无意义，互文视角所得到的信息竟是没有区别，这两小时时长按3倍速都仍觉得折磨。
人物视角转换实在是没有达到预期效果，内容有点少，节奏实在是有问题，保持片长就要充实内容，要么就剪掉半小时。大海、原声带和动画的加成实在让我无法忍心给低分。
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