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."
本来想找个电影娱乐一下，翻了半天结果还是看了这个闷片。节奏真慢，风景真美，（Montana还是新西兰？）音乐真haunting。剧情走向倒是容易看出来，也是大概节奏慢的缘故吧。别的没看出来，主要看出了女导演对toxic masculinity的嘲讽。
2022.3.28 空镜是我喜欢的类型，但是和片子交融的不那么合适，就算是卷福蓄起胡须，也没有西部那种野性的感觉。狂野下的细腻，不可言说的压抑。所以是自己杀死了自己、还是被“羊”干掉？主要很多暗示，不知道是不是我想太多了。
唉，虽然有些不太喜欢的部分，但还是共情了。
从bc拿起丝巾的那一刻我暂停了电影去翻条目，才意识到这个电影的分类原来并不简单。越往后看越不简单。从The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me到deliver my soul from sword，peter和bronco henry是同一类人吗，phil想成为bh，peter“想”成为phil，不同的“strong”不同的“恶”。我好想知道bronco的故事。
8/10。层出不穷的病态讽刺简直成了一出情绪爆炸的爽剧：将灾难描绘成喜乐的极端传媒，拿世界命运换股价升值的大数据资本家，传播阴谋论的键盘侠，戴着选举帽向底层支持者兜售反智主义的总统女士，面对闹剧般的电视节目，科学家除了对观众咆哮无计可施，凯特解决危机的绝望成为群众的谈资，酒吧里向不安的民众陈述政府为开采陨石资源而召回发射器的事实，却以破坏国家安全的罪名被套上麻袋，媒体推举出来的兰博尔博士则在突如其来的成名氛围下，肉体被陈杂欲望填满，臣服于主持人的露骨暗示，一度为政客假装关心大众的广告代言。影片经常插入毫不相干的吸粉短视频和海象的蒙太奇，意味着大众痴迷于偶像和跟风，却不愿意正眼瞧一瞧岌岌可危的现实。结尾的视效更是锦上添花，建筑空间和人的一切物品都漂浮成为宇宙碎片，为物质祈祷的资本主义世界走向毁灭。
娘娘腔的继侄子钮祜禄Peter杀了深柜的爱上他的Phil，所以给Phil一个耶鲁学古典文学的优等生的背景是为什么呢？弟弟和寡妇Rose的爱情挺美好的，但为什么将Rose拍成阴谋诡计又神经兮兮的酗酒型人格？我看的127分钟版没有“最后一晚”，被删啦吗？
令人着迷的影像和心理张力，坎皮恩似乎太沉溺于这个故事的主观讲述，于是并没有太多空间留给观众。
不得不相信已经有很多外星人混入了人类当中。
一部电影学院要分析镜头语言的大银幕电影，放网飞上可惜了
表面风平浪静，克制含蓄；内里暗流涌动，情欲横流。
近期看过观影门槛较高的作品，特别是前半段。影片第一句话很重要，叙述者是年轻男配。
Netflix有钱我知道，但是已经到这个地步了吗？
电影差评比较多的原因有两个，一是它讽刺了太多人太多东西，二是它打着喜剧的幌子，演员也在卖力地夸张的表演，但是出来的效果却并不好笑。好笑的部分都在预告片里了。一部喜剧但是不好笑，必然会惹怒观众。但是，这部电影最难得的地方是主创真的很悲观很愤怒，只是无解，能发现问题，但是没有办法，非常无奈
适合我的幽默，以后有这导演的电影都不会难看到哪去的
如果世界毁灭是这样，我希望是真的。完全是时代情绪，又烂又卷。这部片子给我的感觉就像一张考卷，每到题都答对了可是字迹奇丑无比。要素过多，还挺好笑的。
用男权打败男权，什么以柔克刚，什么逆练女权？
表面平淡下是汹涌的暗波，原本强大隐忍的Pill却陷落在精于设计温情中，这刀真是磨得又慢又快。
马丁说，如果他编不下去了，会让一颗彗星把维斯特洛轰了……世界很可能就是这样死于大数据中的。
好吧，让我们一起sit tight and assess。
笑不出来，看完只觉得彻骨寒凉，除了临时调转火箭以外没有一处荒诞，这分明就是我们在面对的现实。画面质感还不错，摄影和剪辑也很妙，但每个角色工具性都很强，没给这一帮卡司太多发挥空间。Bash老总演的好，比起蠢和坏，更可怕的就是这种人了吧。
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