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."
首先不劳而获的背后还是要有非常多人力劳动的 哈哈 所以把枯燥工作找到意义多么重要 然后就是解决人力问题 于是资金也就有了 anyway 价值这件事情还是要放在金钱之上的 不然确实动力有限呀 老爷子的演技杠杠 由此可以忽略好几处忍不住问why
表演配乐故事节奏主线支线都在线，原以为绝命毒师老了成疯狂赌徒，没想到人家是天赋异禀，不仅化学学的好，数学也是相当可以，但能够利用天赋与人交流，造福整个小镇的事件还是少数，钱说到底还是没有人重要，让钱为我所用，有用才对
我还记得小时候我爸带我去电影院看玩具总动员1，里面什么巴斯光年让我一头雾水。今天算补上了。这感觉真好，迪斯尼这二年可以，没烂片
在平淡的生活中寻找激情 还有什么比这更让人感动和振奋的事呢？
（剧透预警）作家微笑着分手，有理有据，平静温柔，看透这段关系的实质也深刻理解对方，并以杀手锏c’est la vie作结，轻易说服了屏幕前的你，想着这也许是夏日恋情结束的最好方式，顺带意识到电影也快结束了。然而少女追身而起，捧起对方的手腕渴求熟悉的气味，简简单单一句“我不同意”，所有的理智都土崩瓦解，她们拥吻在缓缓关闭的电梯门里，消失在视野中，徒留观众在片尾字幕前错愕又惊喜。此番结尾让人想起侯麦《冬天的故事》。
这么离奇的故事居然是真实故事改编，看的过程中一直提心吊胆担心老夫妇爆雷，没想到结局这么温情。
烂 皮克斯现在就这俩下本领了吗 毫无高潮的剧情张力 角色印象僵硬 毫无特色 五要是还是这种水平趁早砍掉续集计划 永远把观众属于玩具的回忆留在第四部
没有想象中好看，挺失望的。皮克斯里夹着一点迪士尼的味道，两边都不靠谱…（262）
归根结底，如果没有青春滤镜，没有拉踩旁人，本质上不管是哪种主义，都一样肤浅可笑
大卫弗兰克尔类型片功力深厚，感觉这片结尾缺点hitpoint，太平淡，前半段很棒，一对退休老大爷夫妇愣是拍出了邦妮克莱德劫匪搭档的感觉。能用自己的能力照顾身边的人甚至整个社区的感觉真棒，两个主演平淡自然。
皮克斯被迪士尼收购之后做的都什么垃圾...
太差劲太无聊了….这真的是皮克斯么无语…猪一样的配角，buzz也不讨喜，垃圾故事。只剩sox了
#Cinemania2021# 不知道为什么，观影过程中禁不住和The Worst Person In the World反复比较，再次确认女性导演approach类似的议题时果然态度和视角要自洽的多。Anaïs 的care-free mentality是这个时代最理想的urban feminist状态，几套look也很好capture了那个夏天的魅力。本来以为只是夏日的fling（Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi的气质太好了），没想到最后热情又被再次点燃，即使我们知道夏日总会过去，但那想要触到却又收回的动作和亲吻时微微闭上的眼眸却永远不会说谎。
我觉得很好看诶，是真实的故事改编的呢，最讨厌那个哈佛自私小孩了。
我看到的：钱在别人那怎么就那么好赚我什么时候能暴富
彩票的本质是赌博，但有的人能将利用赌博帮助更多的人，而有的人却只为"自己"，这也是一个人价值的体现。非常暖心的故事。
感觉还不错的轻喜剧，剧情其实挺老套的，但是看得还挺开心，竟然还是真人真事改编的，这夫妻真的也是善良，赚了钱还带动大家实现共同富裕！
独乐乐不如众乐乐，彻头彻尾的爽文，但点到的地方都很浅尝辄止
风风火火的漂亮女孩儿，到哪儿都是用跑的。自由且勇敢，不断去突破，感情关系要由这样的姑娘来带领。
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