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."
花太多笔墨解释内涝不夜佛州高谭黑帮老大二公子不是小丑和半缸水盗忆机的使用方法，情感故事和内核被兑水太多需要观众自行加料才能移情。回忆不管好坏都是令人欲罢不能的头号非物质毒品，谁不希望被ghost时对方另有隐情或回心转意。古二蛋疯狂夹带广普what a 龟孙子
格局小，剧情无聊，背景有创意，两位猪脚的颜值再高也撑不起这部戏
【6.0】第一幕还是挺吸引人的，到第二幕的时候剧情节奏就开始出问题了，bug也逐步显露，好在第三幕男女主的情感戏分拉回了点好感。整体属于那种空有高概念，却执行得不佳的科幻片。
old-fashion故事。吴彦祖的中文？导演你把脑子里的水倒一倒行吗？？
男主的人物形象是不错的，但故事讲的是个什么玩意儿
里面不是没有好想法，但可以说全没做出来。导演技法业余不说，本行的编剧居然连类型都能写飞，爱情？科幻？悬疑？动作？全无章法东拼西凑，交代不清旁白硬上，故事讲完十几分钟了还在那整MV拗造型。看的难受得我觉得自己就是彦祖说的那个“poor龟孙子”。。。
浪漫又伤感，谁不想重温人生中最美好的回忆。如果说银翼杀手是爱情文艺外壳下的科幻片，本片就是科幻外壳包裹下的爱情文艺片，不要抱着想看科幻片的预期去看它。
不好意思，看着看着都睡着了。。。
阿祖就是个打酱油的，出场没几次就被女二送去领便当了。
看着休杰克曼和丽贝卡弗格森谈两小时恋爱……吴彦祖的中英双语可太有意思了
有点乱。一段段的回忆没顺序，再加上我不是一次看完的。三星吧。
1这片子竟然不满星？？ 涓滴效应 + 房地产商欺压百姓被团灭+无政府主义, 打倒无良房地产hh. 2能反复重温和逝去爱人的回忆, 有什么比这更残酷又美好. 3.这卡司简直是西部世界团建? 4彦祖中英混杂的一句王八蛋给我听笑了 关于后两点,看一眼导演就懂了, 丽萨有点东西. 评论区有人拿导演性别说事, 真的恶臭.
2021/10/20/1.金刚狼没了爪子战力下降得厉害.2.阿祖让我们见识了什么叫做英文里夹中文.3.BGM很好听.
还蛮适合HBO免费观看的，就网大水准。整体没什么意思，也没什么悬疑吊着。吴彦祖很性感，但是谁给他写的中英文夹杂台词，我整个大爆笑。
“马戏之王”精神出轨CP再续前缘，“西部世界”主要配角全力支持，来一场老兵恋爱脑全力追爱。PS：阿祖英文里夹中文是怎么个意思
未来水世界+马戏之王+西部世界，这是什么逻辑？剧情设定太乱，吴彦祖演个配角，他说的中文我一个字都没听懂
1 末世设定，画风阴郁，独白低沉沙哑，情节飘忽于现实与梦幻，还有大阴谋隐于其中，这些都是我喜欢的；2 但是，情节散乱，碎片化，连贯性略弱；且，总令人联想起《盗梦空间》，《记忆碎片》，《黑色大丽花》，有点出戏，这感觉稍不舒服；3 演员阵容还是蛮强大的，特别是休杰克曼让人看着舒服。总体来说，休闲可看。
记忆不存在于过去，没有未来哪来的记忆？吴彦祖示范了什么是标准的美式的中式英语hhhhhh。
格局小，剧情无聊，背景有创意，两位猪脚的颜值再高也撑不起这部戏
故事其实还是个好故事，但是感觉片子没有很好地把这个剧本给利用起来，剧情的推进有些杂乱以及略显生硬。好几位《西部世界》里的演员，里面Watts（西部世界里的梅芙演员扮演）女儿的设定应该也是和《西部世界》遥相呼应了一下，片尾Watts的孙女都有了，弥补了《西部世界》里梅芙被设定记忆一直欺骗却仍选择相信自己拥有女儿这件事的遗憾。
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