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."
1、中国式亲子关系中，每个人心中都有一个恶魔，而相互妥协的中国式智慧也许是暂时降伏恶魔的法门。2、宇宙跳跃其实没什么新意，但宇宙如此之多、如此之乱、如此之量身定制，剪辑如此之飘，略可观。3、杨紫琼60了，还在打，幸亦不幸。4、华裔的努力、辛苦、心酸，苍天可鉴，殊为不易。但至少，他们现在可以正常拍电影了。
用迷影和流行文化进行拼贴 用图片 玩偶剧 PPT电影 漫画以及平行宇宙各种元素大乱炖 实际上概念《超体》已经做过了 叙事也老套了 还没走出西方亚洲家庭教育和家庭观念的刻板印象 所以看到一半我朋友睡着了 我疯狂吸入可乐来保持清醒 从视听来说镜头太一般了 但声音在混杂的空间中反而有新意
果然，如果一个电影里有原生家庭，那么这个世界的灾难就是这个原生家庭导致的
太精彩了 where should I even start?!
一场完美的视听盛宴，相似运动和同景别转场让人叹为观止。个人觉得，如果电影停留在末世双石那里刚刚好，让人感慨“白茫茫一片真干净”。一切都是虚无，一切都不重要。母女和解需要一生的时间，怎么可能几句话就能轻易实现呢。电影让我想起了《降临》中母亲的选择—“我遇见了所有悲伤，但我依然愿意前往。”
可如果她放手接受女儿的虚无主义，再焕新自己的存在主义，会不会更好。
虚无主义的反义词是什么？实有主义吗？everything matters. 一切皆可爱。
它的时代精神似乎正是多元文化主义与后好莱坞普世主义间的悖论，在无数个与一个之间的不断游离，而焦虑来源于不存在的坍缩，所/有的爱与所/有的恨......另外，贝果黑洞是比石头宇宙更接近gen z的。
Just so so……完全没有戳中我。形式天马行空，内核却没有那么天马行空，I really don‘t like typical 东亚母女关系。当一颗石头选择离开时，另一颗石头静静地在山上做自己好吗，你不必困在纠缠的关系之中，你有你自己的多重宇宙，be cool.
love bagel，love two rocks，nothing matters，we are just stupid pieces of shit
花里胡哨，做出爆炸信息量的效果必然会在私人情感表达上顾此失彼。说实话看的累死个人，真是辛苦杨紫琼了，她演这个戏也蛮累的
看的时候狂轰滥炸，回想起来趣味无穷。例如设定：彻头彻尾的失败，才能诞生出多个成功的平行宇宙，她的潜能仍旧有被借用的机会，多么振奋的后现代叙事疗法。例如人物：中年妇女的碎片生活，青少年的虚无主义，男人的心软战斗法则，审计员缺爱才尖刻。例如关系：母亲的控制让女儿虚无，女儿的世界渴望被倾听，同性只是冲突的爆发点之一，背后是情感交流的阻隔。例如美式食物细节：过量的芝士，桌板下的口香糖，空虚的甜甜圈。我的“中产阶级”审美不断被挑战，直到石头安静的哲学对话抚平我的烦躁。结尾这么多线索居然也能收拾完好，惊为天人！这才是#the worst person in the world
不好看，甚至觉得无聊，对移民题材无感，对超级英雄无感，那个丈夫一讲普通话就像个尖声细嗓的公公，实在是emmm
目测，这是十二年之内（从盗梦空间开始），最好的，也是思想最深沉、情感最触动、理解最深刻、感受最丰富的科幻/奇幻电影。
垃圾片。莫名其妙。菜市场国粤英语大杂烩。精神病风水大师出品，不说人话。
4.5，相比而言，开多重宇宙的脑洞是最简单的事情，如何在强设定的背景下收尾，才是最困难的。
疯疯癫癫，神神叨叨，强行恶趣味还要上价值，天马行空？真的看不下去
别和解了，，，很酷炫的形式包裹一个很土味的内核，，，我真的会谢
造型视觉创意喜剧，梗，致敬，这些都很有意思。我是觉得对于导演来说应该这些比故事内核更重要。然后你要用什么来串起这些东西呢，比爱情还简单，普世的故事就是家庭😂😂在讲故事这一块是比较糙的。比如除了说女儿是个拉拉以外，什么也没讲。之后我们也知道，女儿不住在起，也不太联系。没有太多打扰了。小时候发生了什么也不知道。就自动脑补😂 最后收尾也怪怪的。就反派被逼做实验，然后玩坏了可以同时体验宇宙，因此emo了。然后要找到妈妈，让妈妈也体验一下，然后帮她理解这个世界？然后妈妈也emo了，但是想到老公非常kind，然后自己也应该用乐观视角来面对世界。她就好了？然后就让反派想死就死吧。然后跟女儿说我不会管你了。就和解了？就都拿这个和小熊猫比。我倒是觉得小熊猫是以母女关系为核心来做的。这个只是串一下😂😂
感觉是上上个世纪的华裔叙事。还不如红熊猫。
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