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."
一狮一狼一人一个私人领地，她们在一起过着快乐温馨自在的生活。
真爱不是关于找到另一个人，而是关于找到自己。
看似时髦实则土味，把当代人的故事包装成电影节流水线产品给老头们看的，拿奖密码max。（但好像也没拿啥奖…）另外男主这形象我老觉得是个演动作片而不是搞网恋的，不知道选角的时候出于什么个考虑
就这么说吧编剧你把娄烨的电影看了几遍？开头一句如果我走了，我以为下句要接你会不会像马达那样找我？80年代大学校园，放着同样的我的青春小鸟一去不回来和7little girls setting in the backseat ，你再掰扯下到底是借鉴还是复刻哒？中间干细胞你没那科研造诣就真的别写，又去戈壁滩干什么？？合着男主角当了一辈子处男还有闺女了？高粱怡给你们下重金了？？？
有些比较有趣的地方，而且王朔作为编剧调侃“写书的那个王哥”以及经典的重逢有戏梗还算动了丝笑容；然而王传君诗朗诵的念白仿佛把人拉入科教频道的医疗纪录片，并且从未停歇的抒情音乐，扯了快两个小时…当然，都是「作者电影」了，也不计较我们喜欢罢了。饰演“王小莫”的是王啸坤- -害，谁还不是“番茄台古早选秀宇宙”出身的人，也算某种奇妙的荧屏重聚。希望此生能看见王珞丹和“京圈”、“大妞”、“京腔”割席的一天，姐子你清醒一点。
男主一开始真的很挫，救啊结果越看越性感辣得我头晕目眩，这片给我整体感觉是一种衣衫单薄的闷骚，其实风格没有很像王家卫，我想导演领略到了内核。水坝和湖好美好美
前后人物中心的转移让整个叙事节奏和母题阐述都有了一些问题，有些事件有反复提到但也就停留在这里。男主的愤怒和沮丧并没有更加清楚的逻辑，他对异装男孩的转变到接受也是。
。生活事业都不如意的硬汉警察男主，网恋对象也与他失去了联络，他驱车千里去找她，发现原来她是一个二十几岁年轻男子的他，该怎么办呢，... 展开
出发抵达出发的结构，当代人情感生活的疏离在畸零人身上越发发光，有那么几个地方让人想起尼尔乔丹的哭泣游戏和冥王星。表演真挚，节奏流畅，镜头语言对情感的表达不着痕迹。
电影挺好的，影调啥的都挺喜欢，差一点就2星最大的问题就是没有说服力，缺乏逻辑。故事都看懂了知道要说啥，问题导演没做到。
一刚一柔却同样压抑的两个灵魂 与其看做是一场注定没有结果的爱情 其实更是通过彼此得到了解放和重生
这是啥？？？
又臭又长。很多情节都与主线没有太大关系，完全可以几句话几个镜头一带而过的。总体来讲就是网恋直男被“人妖”男欺骗寻找自我正视自我的故事。整体头重脚轻，剧情后段的情感冲突与对话交流过于仓促不够深入。但是不妨碍Sara很美，男主挺帅，插曲total eclipse of the heart太好听。爱都爱了，做也做了，本以为Daniel最后一刻会把Sara拉下长途车的，可惜结局太现实残忍，隔着屏幕都不愿给恋爱脑们一丁点爱情憧憬。
如果感情是一片干燥的私人荒漠，重返绿洲，需要一点运气，当然还要一点勇气。（不过这种发裸照以及跟踪行为真的很让人讨厌……）
两种出逃：从所处环境的地域出逃；从被指派的性别/被规训的身体出逃，因此开头与结尾都是「在路上」的公路旅程。
除了摄影之外，毫无优点，烂俗的故事，烂俗的角色。
作为《不老奇事》主人公的王传君和王珞丹贡献出了令人惊喜的演技，在王传君的身上，你能感受到一种“一切尽在不言中”的奉献与牺牲，这一切都出于一颗不求回报的真心；而在王珞丹的眼里，你又会深切看到一种凛冽与迫切，仿佛当下的生命就是一场华灯初上，再不做些什么就真的来不及了，因此没有办法停留。
total eclipse of the heart
3星，其中2星给电影，再加1星给男主的颜。
片尾曲听着听着就要哭了，在众多同影中真的属于独树一帜了🤧 低于预期而又高于预期。
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