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."
大荧幕看真棒
其实多少有点粉丝大电影的意思，但还是好喜欢
#PPC#我怎么回事！我不是已经铁石心肠看音乐剧再也不会哭了吗！严格意义上这当然不算一部好电影，舞台感很重，主人公的追求梦想路上的经历也不新鲜，哪个创作者不这样痛苦疯魔。但是Jon的结局太像命运玩笑了。早年知晓的惋惜和今夜看到加菲如此鲜活生动的复现时的心疼，暴击的我毫无抵抗。生命的确是有倒数器，30岁也终将会来，才华横溢满载掌声也没办法当下如愿实现梦想。Just start next one，sharpen your pen，writing and rewriting and rewriting…全世界都在等Netfilx的这个空隙，愿意跑去影院花钱的这寥寥几个人都是一样的吧。想起当年的一些傻事，大家都要努力，大家都要尽量活着，会有那么一天的。
老夫人去世了唐顿庄园就真的结束一个时代了
happy ending for everyone的流水账
虽然稍显狗血，但是很暖的大结局，看起来确实不会再有续集了！老夫人是唐顿之魂，因为她我才追到现在……卡森听到老夫人的噩耗时，出口就是李尔王，而庄园里拍电影，也是典型的戏中戏结构——英国人是有多么热爱莎士比亚！
随着音乐响起，缓缓出现那片绿草坪，出现Downton，感觉一下子就来了，剧情什么的都不重要了。不过电影拍摄和法国南部风情都蛮有意思的。老太太走了，这个系列应该真的结束了吧。托马斯的戏份应该是删了，等着线上再看一遍。
ps.巴罗的同性戏份又内陆影院被剪光了🆘
观感比1好，拍电影比招待国王可有意思太多了
一如既往的大团圆结局，我的Matthew Goode虽然不在，但barrow 找到幸福啦阿哈哈哈～～ 看到最后会想到四个婚礼一个葬礼吧，英国人好像很喜欢在这种仪式感中讲述世事变迁云卷云舒. 当年追唐家屯的那拨人也长大了，成了货真价实的中年人. 小时候肯定都是想成为玛丽大小姐啦～ 但现在发现其实自己最像二小姐，从壁花到拥有自己的幸福人生，希望以后的路也和她一样. Life goes on, people come and go, 但是唐顿庄园的烟火味一如既往地抚平人心. 最后给管家和mosby那两段舞台剧般的精彩独白点赞👍！
但是没有看过剧的会很迷茫。
穿着戏服岁月静好地过家家，那就好好告个别吧。试图在时间的灰尘里看到优雅。有些可以move on，可有些注定老去。新时代来了，不如适时停下，在破碎的时代来临前，葬礼与新生，或许是这个童话最好的结局
唐顿，本质上是个大俗剧，双双对对匹配好的格局加上精心修饰的风波。然而人如故友，故而希望他们一切安好。
一个时代的落幕。Mary也许会成为另一个granny，但没有人可以替代这一个granny。
对粉丝来说满满的感动
以为上一部已是大结局，编剧却能稳步按排出新的惊喜；台词功力依旧是紧密莞尔的英式幽默，人物性格并没被多线叙事淹没，反而交织生动；虽然所有人都给了配对结婚的结局，结合时代背景和这么多年他们所历经的折磨，倒也令人安心称意。奶奶的隐秘情人揭露出她作为Violet的一面，回首往昔也会如年少时般心动；老一辈的去世新一辈传承，时代的脚步不停，他们却都在自己的限定社会背景里努力适应、尊重、和解、渴望、鲜活着；不经意就会共感一个个如此生动可爱的角色。我知道自己无论如何也需要进电影院给我看DA的十多年一个圆满的句号，最后的最后，我第一次觉得完满得称心如意，影院出来的夜风也温甜。谢谢唐顿，感恩相遇！—2022.6.4
几多欢喜，几多愁。——致永恒的伯爵夫人维奥莱特
我真的真的很喜欢唐顿2这次的双线剧情设定，节奏可以说很紧凑巧妙了，每一个人物的出场配合The Suite这十多年的主题曲简直是一进影厅就泪奔的程度（关于我迟到了2分钟），从当初分辨每个人物都费好大力气到如今看到每个人物出场都泪目，这中间说没有情怀是假的，这也直接导致我看到granny将死之时哭到心梗。但影片还是温情多于悲伤，可以把这部看做“夏季版圣诞特辑”，依旧是纯纯的英式合家欢。还让我比较惊喜的地方在于来Downton拍电影这部分，很多台词都真实反映了从无声电影到有声电影过渡阶段导演、演员们的无所适从，电影的发展始终伴随着技术的更迭，就像贵族也在逐渐适应与现代融合，整体立意不拔高但很有趣。我对唐顿永远有fans滤镜，必须满星。
「這樣一位尊貴的夫人即將離世，家裡卻有一堆拍電影的。」家族火炬的傳承，電影從無聲到有聲──全新世代。P.S.下部繼續拍南法吧！
但是后面的几个人疯狂的在打哈欠……
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