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."
影片总归打磨的工业圆润又好看非常，
结局草率，机器人强行消失而且世界变得更好不过是用了更好的B-Bot罢了，除了主角外人与人之间的关系也没什么改善。
私密的成长故事，只是切入点不断的跳换，情绪难以延续，当然这样的敏感和贪婪会让影片的私密性更强。意大利真是拥有好多漂亮的海岸风景和古典气质的城市景观。
说实话完全没看出“温暖”“感动”…只觉得非常恐怖，这时瞥见了放在旁边的苹果手机，吓的跳起来赶紧把手机扔出两米远！！！
真奇怪，索伦蒂诺的电影总是私人的甚至不可靠近的，热烈的却又落到喧嚣世外，意味模糊下莫名其妙的复杂饱满，美与青春后背上有肮脏的痕迹。每次的观影感受都那么怪味，那么难忘，不耐烦又喜欢。
06.09 想看 → 12.01 看过：2021年，类似的科幻设定，前有机器人VS人类的《智能大反攻》，后有机器人&人类友好相处的《天赐灵机》。如此情况不禁让我联想到：1998年，同是关于蚂蚁的动画电影，前有梦工厂的《蚁哥正传》，后有皮克斯的《虫虫危机》。—— 2022.01.09：与先后一起看过原声/国配版《米家大战机器人》的两外甥一起观看了台配版《天兵阿荣》，有趣的国语配音像《蜜熊的夏天》那样让我在二刷之后提升了对影片的好感。
还是经典套路结构。
这个主题非常当代。但设定本身都是一眼看上去就有问题的，再用一个故事来扳倒和翻转也没什么必要。
三星半。和 Free Guy 一样是不受控制的 AI 最终治愈了人类
本片假借马拉多纳的上帝之手，讲了一个成长的故事。性，乱伦，南欧风情……父母健在时，法比奥是个幸福的孩子，他曾在足球和电影之间选择了足以燃烧青春的足球，与他做出相同选择的是整个那不勒斯城。足球与电影，一个是现实中的激情，一个是逃离现实的出口。但法比奥的父母意外离世后，他的人生出现了转折。在迷茫的青春期，80多岁的男爵夫人让他帮忙梳理两腿之间的一条老缝，在我国大部分地区，这样的第一次可被称之为“喂了狗”，但法比奥认为男爵夫人的话有道理，她是赠予他成人礼的辣过棱，为他打开了未来。而走私犯的一个金句也鼓舞了他：“我们没有疯，我们只是还年轻。”最终法比奥封存了对小姨的性幻想，背上行囊去罗马追逐电影梦，成为一名罗漂，他有故事要讲。该片音效太抢戏，实则并无卵用。四星中有二星献给我喜爱的那不勒斯和马拉多纳。
一个社交恐惧的男孩和出厂缺陷机器人教会了其他正常人什么是友谊：不是社交网络上的点赞和讯息，而是stay together, like each other，是你选择了我而我也选择你。小机器人需要电才能维持运转，可是他宁愿耗尽自己的电量也要把他的朋友救出山林，这一段确实美好。
可爱!!!!!!!!!! And it’s okay to be the weird one out there :)
后半段的海上电影院，是关于离别、孤独和不得不上路的少年残酷成长。
4.5 当索导回归真诚。80年代的那不勒斯，像是浮于海上，静谧神秘、游离。那年马拉多纳来踢球，交了朋友，性启蒙。父母却突然离去，闹腾的亲人们用迥异的态度应对，邻居尽力安慰，自己后知后觉在操场大声哭泣。最后迷茫变成坚定，一个那不勒斯小青年像费费一样，坐上火车去罗马学电影。（但是就不能先把《美国往事》看了吗！）
我超，怎么是索伦蒂诺啊……意大利，那种只要一个镜头就知道在哪里的地方。 我好在乎啊，父母那一点成年人的幼稚、幸福和死亡，他们在壁炉前睡着的时候我眼里噙着泪水。 看这样的私人影像我总是眼里噙着泪水，好像导演通过镜头捏住了我的泪腺，我和他一起在两小时里过完少年的一段人生。
开场的惊奇队长、黑武士、暴风兵把“迪士尼影业”打在了公屏上。
索伦蒂诺太爱Napoli了，一景一景的都是艺术，意大利的夏天啊太美好，从天才女友走出来看这部，就感叹Napoli从来不缺美少女美少年啊，真是种族优势，小男主演的也非常动人……
感觉上的确很费里尼，一个家族的生活到一个孩子的生活，放荡疯癫的女人，迷茫无助的青春，当然，也很羡慕那种夜晚浪荡街头的闲适，夏日沙滩的闲适，火车树影的闲适，但是整体的感觉太散了，没有神散而行不散的浑然天成，大概，还要继续吧（当然我国电影……）
真是无语了，打扮得再华丽也掩饰不住三观的虚伪。穷人的孩子不配拥有幸福，除非你购买昂贵的垄断科技巨头的电子产品（这样你就能获得虚伪的“幸福”）。
一个简单的故事，想讲的道理也过于浅显，难道现在除了皮克斯已经没有人能拍出好的动画片了吗？
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