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."
差点就因为评分错过了这部电影。一部真实的电影，没有把考上耶鲁当作戏剧高潮，没有把暴打混账老爹当作救赎，也没有任何明显的结局，但我就是感受到了那股淡淡的温情，一种破茧而生的力量。从混沌中一下子找到了自己的路，重点不是那条路通向某个城堡或王座，而是找到了那条路，并且开始慢慢的走，欣赏起两边的风景。而现实中，我们经常给自己定下目标，不问自己内心是否真的想要那个目标，是否值得心无旁骛的去追赶以至于错过了很多普通又平凡的风景。真的现在目标之处时，突然感到空虚，而脑海里浮现的确是一些普通而美好的画面。
太精彩啦，主题讨论的清楚而明白，比原则更重要的是人心，守护条条框框的原则也只是外化，真正要守护的是自己的心，不忘初心就能找到回来的路，靠二分法办事太简单省力了会错过很多或发生失误，要训练的是自己的心，站在灰色地带上能有更多视角和可能呢
原作者担当制片人，但是并没有把可看性提高多少。。除了猛盯着大本试图找出不一样的东西，但故事实在没带起来。。没有特别的矛盾冲突和解决的点，最后报个警大义灭亲了就，又和考上Yale被纽时拒了交了个黑妞有啥关系？。。没重点，又流水账。。但是大本又不得不占住篇幅之感。。
也就棒子能拍这样的电影。确实很多东西不是非黑即白的，很多卧底也是游离于灰色地带，并非都是伟光正。但他们的牺牲和付出都是对警察这个职业信念的坚定。去抓比我更坏的恶人。
温情脉脉的美国男孩成长生活，a silver light in the clouds。冲着大本看的这个电影。平淡温馨的电影，但不足以把人吸引进电影院。所以拍这种电影的意义在哪里呢，我感觉在美国可能是服务于家庭租赁市场的，也是锻炼电影创作者基本功的平台，另外这种电影也反映或者反向地潜移默化美国人的价值观：家庭，宗教，希望。我们的网大可以拍拍这类型的片子啊，先把平淡的故事讲有趣了，再去拍院线片；也可以让人从更平易近人的网大中收获一些价值观
题材和设置相当不错，小崔演技退步了，接不住老赵的戏。
看完蛮感动的。以后也要开一个全是书籍的bar！
作为单亲家庭，挺能共情的，主角比我幸运，有一个神级舅舅。不过话说回来，就算不是单亲，谁又不想要一个开着间叫“狄更斯”酒吧的舅舅呢？当然了，后面的一些剧情真的太过一般，被一个女人耍的团团转，还宣扬了一番过时的美国梦。至少前半段真的很棒。
冲着大本看的。是瘦了吗？几乎不敢确定。故事有点你当像鸟飞过高山的感觉。原生家庭、上大学的重要性。舅舅被渣爸暴走为什么不还手？我不理解。最后找渣男我以为会帮舅舅要回30美元。。我也想和男主做固炮。
影片虽然平淡，但各个角色都演的很真实。最重要的是，隐隐中看到自己的童年，虽然并不算富裕，但家人给予的温暖却永远伴随。
乔治克鲁尼的叙事风格，很年轻也很美，柔情似水。
就觉得很温馨很舒服 在一个零下三十度的周末 连光影都觉得温热。
有些时候略显冗余，但是Uncle Charlie被描绘的太美好了，我真是暗戳戳给暖到了！最后JR开车那段好自由，这一刻他就是作家。
有时，我们无法选择完整的家庭，但是在人生中，呢些支离破碎的温暖，足以照亮往后的路途。
本扮演的舅舅一角的确有内涵，社会早就分成了三六九等，拼命的付出改变现状去对抗阶级间的一句顺水人情…
虽然是看似一团糟的家庭环境，但是却给了一个孩子足够的爱和鼓励去成就他的梦想
讲了，但没讲透。前半部分的节奏好过后半部分，upper-middle-lower。
《温柔酒吧》是颁奖季电影里最平淡也是最温馨的一部，充满了爱与希望
有原则的小崔成长为游走在灰色地带的警察的故事，讲真剧情一般，但小崔+赵震雄很喜欢了
5.2/10 虽然处处都可以窥见原作之所以为名著的缘由, 然而本片却进行了一次极其失败的改编, 并再一次向大众展示了野心大于能力所造成的惨痛后果。 多方势力, 多起事件, 游走于黑白间的角色, 行走于绳索上的行动...本片仅仅将最为核心的部分粗暴堆砌, 然而在有限的时间内大量细节刻画的缺失, 让故事整体如一盘散沙。 同时于商业利益上的权衡, 不仅营造了一堆豪无悬念的谜团, 同时也浪费了不少本可有更精彩下文的情节。 最终只能依靠演员自身的颜值与演技, 和仍算精彩的动作戏份, 让这部影片不至于太过糟糕。 (附: 虽然尚且无法确认是混音亦或收音的失误, 但本片在上映后收到了不少无法听清对话的批判。 作为一部院线公映作品, 犯下这类基础型失误, 可谓大忌。)
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