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."
反观我们的很多青春片，还一直停留在青春期。比如去年沙漠导演的《我要我们在一起》，诚然是一部挺真挚的电影，但片中人物那种不顾一切的傻劲儿，又使得这段看似被现实打败的爱情，实际离现实很远。他们其实一直活在一个自我塑造的透明罩子里，谈着不切实际的爱情。你可以说这很勇敢，但另一方面，也很虚浮。
片子嘛，太工整了，缺了点意思。
整个2020年最好看的一部电影了，至少舒压。一切的落脚点都在于积极地理解“它不重要”。
所以爱会消失对不对，社畜不得不异化对不对，维持现状也终将会失败告终对不对。押井守、今村夏子、荒野之息、smap、蘑菇帝国、宝石之国，情投意合时就是一朵一朵盛绽夏花，燃烧殆尽时就是一朵一朵昨日黄花，没有什么能抵得住时间的摧残，磨平风干，烟消云散。
最后他们还是分手了
Life is about feeling and jazzing.
虽然结尾音乐很欢快，好像大家也过的很好，但我好难过。
此刻我无比需要滨口龙介。是生活打败了你还是你自己打败了自己？看过希望的另一面也没有给出希望。跟随摄影机依然无法悉知爱的全貌，只有双方各自的自言自语，那里的情感没有相通，想不起一个共有的时刻，找不到曾经相爱的证据。于是你爱的并不是那个“契合”的人，而是想象中的另一个自己。那个3小时21分钟的煤气炉纪录片哪里可以看到哇，一定比霍比特人好看！
活着，感知。然后带着满满的收获，走向疾病和痛苦，在离开之前不留遗憾。
制造了一种虚假的二元对立，一边是「有趣的兴趣爱好」，一边是「乏味贫瘠的工作与生活」，仿佛人只能在这两端打滚。二人根本并未建立真正的联结——那绝非共同的书影爱好能够堆砌的，书影不过是走入彼此视线的一种方式，真正的事情却在后头——甚至可以这么说，恋人们可能会因为工作而没什么时间看电影了，但却并不意味着不能参与彼此生命的深刻变化与体验。片中二人，完全看不到对于对方这个人的生活本身的兴趣，在那些包裹成客气、惭愧或关怀的表面背后，都藏着计较、自卑，却以十分简化的方式被呈现。固然这可能确实是现实当中某一类爱情，从出生到死亡。但它会给我这样一种感觉——不论是一开始的浪漫，还是之后的渐行渐远，都像在拿着壳子往身上套，颇有种高中文青想象爱情世界的感觉，完全无法打动到我。
idk…感觉男女主从最开始相遇到后面分手也没有真正的交流过。像报菜名一样罗列共同的兴趣爱好和经历，就可以作为陷入爱河的条件了吗？看完觉得很虚浮，也没有办法为这种不真挚的爱感动
其实不是不可以跟一个没有爱的人结婚，生孩子，听他们喊“爸爸妈妈”制造恩爱假象，给自己幸福圆满的错觉
槽，跟我那段几年的恋爱真的太像了，因为好喜欢而在一起，一起看展，一起旅游，一起玩游戏，一起散长长的步，深夜大街的啤酒，很多相同的书，最后对方也是觉得走不下去，但又舍不得分手，就一直想结婚，他一步步降低自己的标准，而我更加确信自己想过的生活，结局只能是分道扬镳（正因为我们经历了那么多美好，所以以后的人生更不想将就…往事不堪回首，但好在真的留下了很多开心的回忆。我还是觉得，人不管在学生阶段还是工作以后，恋爱的方式可以保持，不能说我工作忙就不能做一些美好的梦了。看吧，恋爱还是蛮好的呀，除了做爱还是能一起做很多事情的！想买个面包机了…
-我准备和它聊聊，但已经晚了
评分有点情绪化，因为抱着极大的期待最后相当失望。别的且不说，两点吐槽。
唯一不会变的是改变本身呀！维持现状什么的并不可能存在～
书影音没法支撑恋爱，建议豆瓣把该片挂在开屏。
多年以后回想起来，其实他并不喜欢木乃伊，她也不喜欢煤气罐。
这也太俗了，大学生相识先交换豆瓣账号，然后一个依然理想主义，一个为了生活去做打工人，于是分手了，但是隔壁影厅的伍迪艾伦四十五年前就拍过，人打个网球也会好上，即使没有理想主义生活所迫和有的没的也一样会分手的，伍迪艾伦还说了，爱会消散。
四星未满。哪有从头到尾都与自己完全合拍且步调一致的人？如果只因喜好完全相同而在一起，其实只是肤浅地爱上了镜像的自己而已吧。
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