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."
终于不再千篇一律，终于有了被观看的意义的漫威电影。无论是相关讨论的广度和深度都证明这是最有价值的漫威电影。问题还是显而易见，但和漫威其他电影都不在一个维度了。
没看过，但是导演是个son of bitch
来来来，再多搞点人，凑个百八十个，点兵点将，轮流展示才艺，打出完美技能combo，搁这儿地球大舞台，有胆你就来呢？
漫威的野心太大，时间和投入远远不够。赵婷的转变太急，意欲和盘托出却最终变成了硬塞设定和概念的信息流。庞杂的漫威transinfinite体系让人难以在短期内吸收。(在这个阶段就急着赶出来的工真的好吗。。)这让本应是超脱黑白概念，同史诗感相交错的一个好文本，最后却变成了神话和现代生活的大杂烩。一些劳人耳根的cliche以及无法被平缓地处理过去。漫威体系下的作品，那种烙印太难去掉了。惋惜赵婷的心有余而力不足，这种规模的漫改真的很难有人能用一部电影的篇幅吃透。(btw，很喜欢片尾
7分。虽然确实全员PPT演技，但是哪有说的那么差啊（所以上到四星吧）……这是一部充分到字面意义上的正牌“全球电影”。虽然确实不太符合超英片类型范式（但是看到导演是赵婷，观影期待就得管理好不是么），但是在“世界搭建”方面是相当出色的，给出了一个对世界文明的反人类中心视角的解释并且还挺自洽的（这应该是赵婷带来外部文化视角吧），尤其是这次反派设定并不是出于邪恶或者愚蠢，而是在“不同的正义观”（美队3发展出来的）基础上星际“尺度”的物种间的冲突，逻辑很值得一说。当然槽点也很多，大女主感觉换成AB都没啥问题……以及赵婷这个谜之分散站位也太尬了。全片最大亮点应该就是宝莱坞以及电影自指的段落，估计赵婷拍得也很爽……
但凡一个中国人了解过南京大屠杀，都会对为日本同情感到恶心，不要说什么就事论事，30万人的伤痛要是也能跳脱国籍看待，站在神，非人类看待，那真是很可笑，也真是悲哀
全片最好看的是片尾可还行
马东锡的角色叫吉尔伽美什哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，他x朱莉恐怕是冷圈拉郎都想不到的cp吧。总在本土演没什么文化的黑社会，结果是19岁移民美国家世辉煌的国际人士，马叔更性感了！！！
不理解导演为啥要接这活，看完唯一感受就是坐久了腿都有点不灵活了。
确实很像PPT电影，主要是内容太多了，一部史诗大剧想要融合在一部电影里几乎就是不可能的，但赵导能把事情给讲清楚我觉得还是非常厉害了，尽管瑕疵过多。把家庭放在中心地位，以柔软的笔触来叙述这么一个故事，有一定韵味，但更多的是清淡。生命并非只是为了繁衍，生物与生物之间的惺惺相惜远比单纯的繁殖要复杂地多，我认为也高级得多。高潮大戏他们宛如sense 8一般互相连接成为一体，我觉得这一幕的意义真的非凡，也许地球本身的终极形态便是所有生物乃至所有物质的集合，万物生，才能万物长，能量守恒不仅是生死交错，更是生死之外，阴阳结合，万物归一。
建议去看1998年老版梅津泰臣的《风筝》，图6/7/8/9，把这部《凯特》秒成渣。
看起来是从基督教叙事转化为大母神叙事，但最终还是回到弑神式的古希腊神话叙事，也就是西方神话叙事的根脉那里。觉察到神之黑暗与残酷是很有智慧的。最后的爱意存在论值得注意，有女娲补天之意，也有新教意味，这就是导演的最终答案吧。用爱意解决斗争……解决一切问题。
電影內容基本看前面就能猜到結局，唯一的亮點就是動作設計和鏡頭表演的磨合，有玩出一種新高度。但是這個新高度也僅限與酒館的那場戲，結尾的那場大戰著實讓人覺得昏昏欲睡，感覺前部和結尾像是兩個導演在拍，有點跳戲。
在公元前5000年前的美索不达米亚赠予人类礼物、在公元前5XX年的巴比伦城外手作harcha（是吗）、在亚非拉小树林里和人类幼崽嬉戏的eternals好像暑假去非洲帮当地人建学校的刚刚考完SAT的国际学校高一学生啊
挺无聊的，关键这个日裔编剧搞了波洗白珍珠港事件，广岛原子弹 就忍不了，关键导演是他妈中国人，宋丹丹还是她继母，她爹早年还是首钢老总，一路当的都是国有公司老总，这人品这家教，教出来这么个人真的牛逼。什么？你说导演没有话语权？没错，但是她也不差钱不差机会，上一部无依之地拿了多少奖？看报道那个广岛镜头有争议，她还力挺日裔编剧给留下来了，真的牛逼，出生在中国的华裔香蕉人忘本了，出生在美国的日裔香蕉人都还没忘，真是极大的嘲讽，“华裔拍板，日裔码字，黑人下跪，白人懵了”
来来来，再多搞点人，凑个百八十个，点兵点将，轮流展示才艺，打出完美技能combo，搁这儿地球大舞台，有胆你就来呢？
Lucy, Anna, Ava, Kate.... 明年的女杀手叫啥😂？Senna? Jill? Emma? 哈哈哈哈
《永恒族》还不错，大量用自然光的场景，各种致敬泰伦斯·马利克。。。
miyavi！我特么少年时候的偶像！有人记得这个人吗！
属于漫威电影的先天基因问题在本片中表露无遗，当导演的镜头对准海天连接之处从宏大中降下的宇宙观察者却穿着标志性的紧身衣的时候，我们都知道这就已经毁了。试图从故事套路的夹缝中探讨起源、艺术与文明、道德等宏大的命题，然而这些都被湮没在奇怪的剧作中——比如我居然看了一出由陈静女士主演的典型东亚玛丽苏多角恋大戏；或者一群高人一等（所谓神，fine）的族群聚在一起高高在上地judge地球人并决定我们的生死，而分明他们拥有跟我们一样的懦弱与卑劣，这根本就是殖民者的既视感；最后共情的落脚点居然是如同中华神话传说一样的神仙思凡？！再优秀的导演与演员也拯救不了如此畸形的失控，虽然本片动作戏意外地好看，朱莉与马东锡的感情戏意外地好玩。陈静女士与麦登真是毫无火花，他俩站在一起简直用生命诉说我们不熟。
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