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."
那一天，人类终于回想起了被永恒族支配的恐惧。
明明就很漫威啊 what are you guys talking about。倒是能看出 MCU 越来越毁天灭地的 scale 朝着龙珠那种数值膨胀的节奏去了，怕是很难好看的姿势收场了。另外难以想象朱莉已经愿意演这种亮点缺缺的配角了。
自大的白种人找一个白种人来演日本人 哪里像日本人了？这么正宗的美国英语 甚至连一点口音都没有
和其他部位相比却算轻盈。
6.5/10 分。初看，蓝光。特效还可以，剧情实在一般。这个设定感觉就是玄幻小说里古神的设定呀，埋在星球里沉睡长大，哈哈。星爵他爹伊戈也是天神族成员之一。政治正确已经到了恶心的地步了。长达157分钟，从坏处来看就是真的太长了，缺乏精彩的重点，好处来看，就算是我这样从没看过漫画的也基本搞清楚了人物的来龙去脉。
女版这个杀手不太冷，老瓶装新酒，动作设计是大头，一爽起来就很难注意那些缺点，如果能拍第二部凯特复活就好了，女主被发掘了很飒的一面啊～
很多人说本片气质太文艺不适合漫威，我就纳闷了，拍了两个半小时没有从头到尾啪啪啪打到爽就叫文艺片了？他们对文艺片是有什么大误解吧。从小到大吃麦肯基长大的小屁孩人生第一次吃法国大餐，因为上菜太慢没吃饱发脾气，大骂这都什么垃圾餐厅。是是是你说得都对，赶紧回家去吃你的垃圾食品吧。当然问题是有的，毕竟都是一群高高在上的神，跟一般观众距离感太远，缺乏代入感，没有情感共鸣，这是很致命的，真正差评的原因多半源自这个。但其实每一个角色的性格和行为动机都交代清楚并不难理解，很多人说不懂男主为什么一开始反水最后又放弃还自杀，窝草这么明显的士兵人设看不见吗，服从上级是军人天职啊，最后使命忠诚与私人感情的矛盾无法调解，无法下杀手不得不选择自杀。这都无法理解的话……你说得都对赶紧回家吃麦肯基去吧。
抛开脸谱化的自由意志，这部电影里对“爱”的界定广于大多数好莱坞大片。赵婷自带的东方元素，还是以“家庭“的概念若隐若现的，恍惚间又有种回到二十年前地球村的设想里的感觉。其实马利克的摄影风格和cosplay戏服实在太不搭，这是简化传统漫威笑点以靠向作者风格也没办法挽救的，但总体比妇联强太多。
影片算是非典型的漫威超英，给观众带来新鲜感一事上值得给予赞赏，但是高屋建瓴的英雄佯装着关心地球人类，实则更关心自己的家长里短（family），而人类，不过是为了打发时间，或者满足自己幼稚道德感的过家家而已了。
设定挺有意思的，思考的东西也是站在人类文明史而不是基于国别的那点子大小事（拉踩美队2/3的政治惊悚片路线），哆啦A梦有一集剧场版也是这个立意。不过闪回有点故弄玄虚了，悬念也没啥新意。原子弹那段罢美国站在反战的角度倒也没啥好说的，点打在科技创造大面积杀伤武器上是自洽的，中国人因为民族情感不能接受也可以理解。我不喜欢的地方在于这些神的心智真不大成熟，跟某个短评里写的在亚非拉做公益的国际生差不多，当然在MCU的语境下想做严肃讨论也不大可能吧（曾经的福斯漫威倒有可能），赵导想做成人向还是投靠DC罢hhh。
哪怕贴上再多元化的金箔，也无法改变它倒人胃口的败絮内核——殖民心态。
我更愿意花两个半小时看kumail演宝莱坞
打戏差口气但是很符合剧情需要，最后挺感人的。。。。
日美合拍之被剥夺人生女杀手临死寻找真我，较为普通的闯关式复仇意外发掘黑吃黑吃黑真相，过程平淡，谈不上印象深刻，整体缺光观感较差，结合大量的霓虹街景和日系J-POP文化但最终还是不免沦为普通特工动作枪战戏码，选角上玛丽可能更适合正义警察卧底之类，搭配万年雅酷杂国村隼和千年反派伍迪还是违和感满满。PS：还能发现二次元联动属实不易hhhhh当年最喜欢的番之一。
本是娛樂片的底色，硬要加入沉重、史詩、深情之類的東西就過於臃腫紊亂了。
剧情很俗套，好人坏人从头看到尾，女杀手的老旧主题并不能说明什么女性崛起，唯一的特殊就是这不是一个靠外表的女杀手
胡狼不知自责为何物。
当舆论炒作以及集体无意识行为夹杂着种族主义等等政治、民族、国家等因素以沛然之势袭向一部电影时，它总是不可避免地陷入一阵风波之中和无差别的恶意攻击，之前我总是失望厌倦以及愤怒，但现在我基本能够保持理性和平静。
It's so weird to hear Jon Snow call out Cersei like that.
女导演太会yy了。女主成功挽回前男友，嘴炮说服天神，拯救世界，然后跟现男友幸福生活，超英玛丽苏啊这是。可见所谓“独立女性”“大女主”还是需要一堆男人围着她转才行。
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