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."
“你们这些人，总是去喜欢寻找生活的目标和意义，你们活得太累了。”
走出屋外，享受当下每一天撒下的阳光与飘零的落叶，让无聊的“节奏”焕发不一样的韵律，是身在大海中的每一个我们，需要用生命去寻找的航标
第一感觉更喜欢寻梦环游记的和更喜欢心灵奇旅的会是两种人。
音乐及画面可，世界观架构也有点新意，人物塑造与故事推进则差强人意，豆瓣上本片赢得的高分，与隔壁《晴雅集》的低分之间的对比落差，无非彰显了一种受众趣味，一种“豆瓣折叠”的景观。两部电影同样触及了死亡的主题，后者的态度是：“我活过，爱过，可以去死了。”而前者的态度是：“我领悟了生活的真谛，尽管如此——还是请让我活得久一点。”如果最后不设计让主角乔重生的情节，影片立意或更高明，这个小小的设计，也许满足了观众隐密的欲望，但却令影片通过前面的叙事建立起来的关于所谓“spark”的领悟的力量一定程度被削弱。两部电影同样是以某种方式在做心灵抚慰，而基本上没有对现实的触及，只不过抚慰对象不同，抚慰的点自然也不同。
It's not earth, it's New York City in the fall, 或者《海街日记》中的镰仓。
看完了满脑袋都是Moss的声音，打算重刷The IT Crowd
2021开年鸡汤，和所有鸡汤一样没有给勺子。在动画里，小灵魂们找到了活下去的理由后才被推向地球，但生活中有那么多22号，赤身降落在人世间，手足无措。
成年人版的《头脑特工队》。《头》告诉我们成长就是学会与悲伤共处，《心灵奇旅》则提醒所有成年人"享受活着"这个看似简单，但是极度纯粹以至于大部分人都会忘记的事情。延续了《头》的基本配方: 现实世界的问题，在(具备科学基础的心理学)想象世界中去解决。依然展现了皮克斯无与伦比的想象力和纯熟的叙事技巧，辅以到位而不生硬的幽默，以及一个具备一定专业性的故事佐料(爵士乐)。2020，太需要这样一部电影了，它有拯救人于绝望的力量。以及也是一个很好的爵士乐科普电影。
我也不知道我为什么就哭了，但我宣布皮克斯是全世界最伟大的动画公司，55555555555太好看了。
反类型片这碗鸡汤我干了，一直喜欢抨击别人没有灵魂，可是我们对灵魂的定义到底是什么？到底什么是高低，还是无间断地、无味贬低他人来寻觅自己的意义？难道说二零二零年还活着不就是一份意义？【活在当下】能被诠释得如此出彩让人震惊，二零二一年就是依然活着，也许一切没变，那也因为自己正是一条鱼，永远活在水中。
和我的人生态度不谋而合，以至于觉得并没有什么惊喜。活在此刻，carpe diem.
你始终不明白，一万个美好的未来，抵不上一个温暖的现在。
那些远大虚无的东西本来就不是人生的真谛；唯有清风、鸟鸣、午后的斜阳才是生活最纯粹的元素，当你想要去生活，你才会活着。
星期一，午场就卖出我这张票！于我而言完全超级享受！这是一部伟大的电影！与部分佛教思想相通，比如执念带来的痛苦无明，比如活在当下的生命意义等等。
皮克斯的动画，依旧温暖人心。我们要找的不是目标，不是意义，只是热爱。不过整体完成度和画面比寻梦环游记差了点，后半段基本猜得到剧情，没有惊喜。
在电影院里看哭了。飘落的树叶，洒落的阳光，孩子的欢笑，海边的浪花，亲人的拥抱……每一个镜头都能触动我。生活本身是没有意义的，但是认真地过好每一天就是意义。Live at the moment.
Did you find your spark?my baby 👶 spark不是与生俱来的天赋，是你准备好享受这世间的蓝天、清风和落叶
感觉这部电影好像很久以前就已经出现在今时今刻就等着我们的到来，套路的催泪桥段还是没有意外的奏效了，甘之如饴（灵魂导师怎么都这么像Finder
虽然主题有些偏低幼，但还是很棒的作品。无论是风格还是想表达的内容。非常喜欢对meditation（内观）的表达：当心灵是平衡的，就算是在街上舞牌子，也可以是在内观吖。
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