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."
开头非常惊艳，台词也写得好，但后面有些台词有点莫名其妙，逻辑不是很通或者是牵强（比如女主出场自我介绍那一段就非常无厘头）；对于两人相似度的刻画要么就是有些过于刻意要么就是量子纠缠（同框对称拍摄会更好一些），因为这个世界上几乎不存在一模一样的人...
感觉像是自己的故事，共鸣的地方太多了。一直忍着不哭。最后苏打和村花哭了，再也忍不住眼泪。只是电影是和平分手，而自己是一地鸡毛。京王线也是我回家电车20210214 故事就是故事 现实中没有两个人是完全一致的 磨合和忍耐才是走下去的唯一办法20210727
皮克斯的厉害之处就是在十分常见的母题之上，还能用技术主义层层开天眼，包括幽微的情感、新鲜的设定、远高于大众化需求之上的元素。以商业为目标，又毫不吝啬于提升标准（甚至花功夫做的这些提升对商业而言没什么太大必要）。至于看过后能陷入一两秒的哲思，那更是电影的优等生给世界带来的额外奖赏。
太痛苦了吧，我在切鸡胗，锅里还在炒生菜，听他们最后聊分手那段，苏打说要不就结婚吧！大多数人都是这么过的，为什么我们不可以？我想坂元你太残酷了。爱最后肯定是消亡的，所以更多人在消亡前结婚了，以为那还是爱，其实那变成了恩爱。我觉得这部片子不是讨论爱，是在讨论我到底想过怎么样的人生。
当初不敢告诉你小雏菊的名字，因为女生告诉男生花的名字，以后每次看到都会想起那个女生。如今大概庆幸当初没有说，实在无需有更多的事物沾上你我的回忆。
不由得想到穆旦这句诗，“相同和相同溶为怠倦,在差别间又凝固着陌生。”
这个主题确实非常扎心，后劲很大，但本应该可以更好，结局还是潦草了些。
“进入社会就像进浴缸泡澡。”于是真的有人在浴缸中死去。
大概是日常版本的LALALAND，看到地图里的两个人眼泪突然彪出来了，为此给了五星。学生时代的恋爱转化成社会人的恋爱大概是最难的，短短的几年却可能遭遇人生观的突变，自己可能都变得不认识自己，爱情又怎能不变呢。有时候我会庆幸我和某人从大学开始在一起快八年，经历了几个不同的自我变革期，但也熬过来了，还会觉得彼此最为合拍，有时候又会怀疑的想，我们熬过来了吗？还是会变成苏打描述的那种夫妇呢。总之相比于花束般的恋爱，希望我们最后能变成树木一样的感情，有零落的冬天，也有繁盛的夏天，踏实而缓慢的生长吧。
虽然也没有好看到满分爆灯的程度，但是已经足以拯救无聊的2021世界电影市场了。你没办法定义这是一部约会电影还是一部分手电影，该和谁去看。
恋爱关系是恋爱的天敌。分手内因很重要，推荐给沙漠。
-我心脏跳动的声音盖过了吹风机的声音
踏入社会，成为正式职员，加班996,不再画画，看不进去书，甚至翻起成功学，男主怎么能改变得如此彻底(ー ー゛)纵观我身边很快适应社会的人上学时代也早早准备好了，不肯长大的人至今也不肯长大
男女主根本就不是一类人，只是成为社会人以后才显现出来。这就是每个人都拥有过的爱情类型，但对我来说，失去也不那么可惜，因为成年人要的爱情真的不是书影音了。
看人恋爱喜滋滋，见人分手狂摇头。二人分手的原因很明显，就是上班了，不上班啥啥都好，一上班处处不得劲。
-我会把开心的事留作回忆，好好珍藏的，你也要一样
应该叫“豆瓣上的恋爱”才好，因为共同爱好的书影音走在一起，但是没有前途。
我们总在追寻某些目标，以为只有找到了才能算是拥有有意义的人生，却忘记了在此之前我们就已经在“生活”的道路上了。以前我们会因为见到新奇的事物而兴奋不已，但如今的我们更多的看到的却是那些不美好的东西，经历得太多仿佛已经没有什么能打动我们，流下的眼泪也渐渐不是因为感动而是因为难过，就连给自己拍的照片都需要美颜才愿意相信这是真的“我”……
前半部分完全是坂元特色的时代误植了。到底是谁毁了文艺青年的爱情，还是说爱情本就是文艺消费品所编织的幻梦...
不同于以往的作品，这次更像是一种全新风格，它不是传统意义上的合家欢，更像是为经历过生活打击的成年人量身定制。
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