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."
不得不相信已经有很多外星人混入了人类当中。
4.5 冷血人手持温柔刀。贵族农场主戏谑暴虐下却掩盖着跨越数十年的深情，纤细又冷漠的少年剖尸杀伐好似折纸花般轻巧。非常喜欢，没有看过原著，但电影本身非常有文学感。
还是很厉害的 那个交换抽烟的镜头堪称经典
这掌控力，这尺度拿捏，这审美段位，这人物塑造，绝妙无比，意味深长。
卷福的表演和摄影是唯二的亮点。有人说邓斯特表演也很不错，我却讨厌她那永远长不大的娃娃脸和腔调，如果非要用她，把身份设定改成瘦弱男的姐姐，可能还有一定可信度。
经过了 2021 年后，电影中描写的世界末日都是可以忍受的了……
这就是过去两年，人类对待这次危机的态度，众生相，政客贪恋权利，媒体贪恋流量，资本依旧逐利，学者无力，民众不知道信谁。反智，嘲讽，发泄，祈祷，人类渺小，面对自然和宇宙，我们什么都不是
(2021TGHFF) (Titan廳大銀幕)
太隐秘太克制了
冷酷的哥哥、沉默的弟弟、脆弱的弟媳、陰柔的繼子，共同生活在廣渺草原裡的牧場，一切事務不一定是誰說了算，最後還得看哪個人夠狠。
新冠爆发的这几年很多事和三星中将贩卖白宫免费零食一样荒唐
笑不出来，看完只觉得彻骨寒凉，除了临时调转火箭以外没有一处荒诞，这分明就是我们在面对的现实。画面质感还不错，摄影和剪辑也很妙，但每个角色工具性都很强，没给这一帮卡司太多发挥空间。Bash老总演的好，比起蠢和坏，更可怕的就是这种人了吧。
还是很厉害的 那个交换抽烟的镜头堪称经典
唉，虽然有些不太喜欢的部分，但还是共情了。
其实只是把末世灾难类型进行了荒诞处理，夸张呈现疫情时代以来的所有荒谬，政治漫画和SNL段子的融合但又不乏动人的戏剧化处理，内核有点像《火星人玩转地球》，在表层的荒诞背后全是焦虑、恐惧和绝望，这得益于导演在形式上尤其是剪辑对语调的把控（提前切断的情绪和叙事，以及最后晚餐的蒙太奇和突然定格，这是脱离段子小品和讽刺喜剧的关键），不同之处在于火星人最终回归到喜剧，而这片则由始至终都是悲剧，所以观影过程几乎没怎么笑，反而有泪目时刻，最后甚至有点《忧郁症》式的绝望感。全明星卡司里面Mark Rylance太亮眼了。另外比较好奇的是这片为何在美国和法国会有完全不同的媒体反响（法媒以称赞好评为主
比较蠢，看似全球视角，全片只有一个美国……
英国气质混搭西部片。
波米说这部电影建构了“新集权”框架——第四权力下放，大数据、流量经济、官能刺激绑架议程设置→后真相时代，信息战与认知战、转移焦点、“等反转” ——也是搭建在对人类这一认知之上的必然，所以彗星最终也必然落下。
人物描写非常好，演员也演得很到位。本就喜欢凶杀发生后层层剥开发掘真相的作品，看完这部发现我也很喜欢凶杀前层层堆砌引致高潮的作品。看影评说原著的人物的性格更极端，本电影的改编更贴合现实，也更彻骨寒心，让我想到如果《Rusty Lake: Roots》要改编成影视作品的话，找简导来拍一定非常合适。toxic masculity，缺乏自爱自尊又需要变强大，通过伤害对自己示弱的人来找回自尊；但是如果刚好又爱上的话，那这段关系只能慢慢滑向一方杀掉另一方的结局，因为爱对这种人来说过于沉重。如果不除掉外面的防卫来让真实的心变强大，而是继续加强防护，那么他们始终弱小的心灵就终将无法承受这种感情，只能通过把另一方毁灭掉来寻求解脱。原本以为BC只能演学究，开始还有点嫌弃他的口音。支持拿奥斯卡影帝和最佳导演。
太痴情了太纯情了....明明就是爱的很深的爱情片，可是太残忍了，被看透就全是软肋，一击毙命。送绳子那里不知所措的扔在地上，好心痛。
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