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."
很显然不是亚裔性少数女性在家庭压力下写出来的剧本。两位导演在校时期都见过，客观事实就是我们学校电影系确实烂啊，还只会拍mv+元素堆砌+无论是谁都认为自己是全宇宙最具有lgbtq表达欲的人。这种亲情关系可以瓦解成杀母之恨又可以提纯到宇宙万物的答案，可以神乎其神穿越一切，但多少个宇宙过往云烟后你妈还是你妈，恭喜你，你这辈子无法摆脱。
神片，两部分是两种看透，第一种看透，无我无物万法无相，一切皆无所谓，有了一种看透，才能进入第二种看透，觉悟，既然放开了心结放开了执着，为何要执着于看透后的无所谓，而是放下心结，好好生活，都无所谓了，就没压力了，没压力了不就可以开心生活了？
三星半。很简单的核心思想，填充过载的梗。看得我好累，头疼。
好疯，好嗨，找到了当年第一次看杀死比尔的感觉，甚至更牛逼，因为它竟往昆汀里放进了李安，王家卫里放进了周星驰。
整体还不错，前面看得非常不舒服，尤其不太适应这样的表演，但看进去好多了，可是伊芙琳回溯过去有没有后悔或者怎么去和解，人生多重选择性等等都没有好好拍，花里胡哨的就过去了，包括家庭和生活的困境依然没有得到解决，倒不是说解决，爱虽然可以拯救，但也只是暂时性的，可能不到一周，伊芙琳又会恢复以前那样了～
而这个世界里，你没有用超能力，你也没有用钞能力，你解决了你最想要解决的烦心事。
看到二十分钟的时候我有点困，看到第一个小时依然没被吸引。设定不能说新颖，剧情不能说感人，对亚裔的印象也还是以前那套。
3.心目中的2022年最佳电影。理解透了华人的矛盾情感，重视家庭，却又过度望女成凤。自己无奈妥协于现实，却又逼迫子女去做不想做的事情。这不就是黄皮肤版的《蜘蛛侠：平行宇宙》+《soul》。
这是什么恶趣味电影吗，茶菊花那一段真的没吐，还有一开场的尴尬的李小龙，刻板印象和东方主义竟然还在拍？？？so sorry，平行宇宙这也是个老梗了吧，无语😓
用最出奇的形式讲了一个内核最传统的故事。过程真的屡次突破预期且超级好笑，完全值得五星。只是如此天马行空的想象力最后迎来一个无趣的结局，还是感觉非常可惜。丈夫这个角色没有存在的意义也撑不起这么重要的戏份。女儿不应该需要母爱来拯救，就放她去往bagel的另一面不好吗…虽然讲的是同一个故事，但相比之下Turning Red在意识上要更有突破性。
1、趣味性：足够
当所有的混沌都选择回归常态的时候，我想知道我们这个时空何时能冲破铁笼，大梦初醒，涅槃重生
看得我破口大笑，痛哭流涕…妈妈想不明白，但是妈妈奋不顾身要去每一个宇宙找你。故事gist真的很简单，但是怎么能这么飞这么炫…还很整全…太喜欢joy的长相身型了。杨紫琼太有灵魂了，简直想不出来如果不是她能是谁。想妈妈，想和妈妈一起看，为了妈妈也要好好活着。但我妈肯定：你看你就是我的讨债鬼～😭
在电影里面有那么一个宇宙，这个在所有的宇宙中是最接近你现在所在的这个宇宙的存在。那里没有天马行空，那里没有笔走龙蛇。
太东亚了，宇宙崩塌妈妈依旧只在意你是不是同性恋
我把话放这儿，今年看过最好看的电影！！我他妈又哭又笑两个小时，他妈的整个人看完非常overwhelmed。整个片子有成龙有周星驰有李安有王家卫当然也有导演搭档自己。后半段有点拖拉，可以剪掉二十分钟。但是真的瑕不掩瑜。亚洲人的母女和解出柜故事果然就是要拉着全宇宙来作陪才配得起！！！怎么这么好看啊我的妈呀！
这不是电影，是命好题目的短视频集合。列好框架，一直打磨往里面加散装素材，最后扣题，太生硬，太学生了。
两个小时花里胡哨归根到底还是“妈妈爱你”这一套，腻了烦了，想看“你妈终其一生只爱她自己，她不爱你，全宇宙那么多世界线上没有人爱你”的结局
可她们到底需要多少，需要得到什么才能摆脱自己的孩子呢？为什么直到最后也要困在亲子关系的执念里？
我对这片最不满意的地方恰恰在于标榜天马行空的本片的其实太不天马行空，太缺乏想象力了。只要观众熟悉一般的剧作套路、有一定观影量，了解编导他们那拨人当中有不少在美国人文学院体制下学习英语二手欧陆哲学这一语境，那么本片剧本的创作意图对观众就是透明的，几乎可以判断出每一个剧情转折。而观众发现本片剧本潜在的目的论结构以后自然就会意识到本片不但没有真正令人惊喜的地方，而且内含的潜在的目的论结构自身就与剧本的核心逻辑完全矛盾。丰富的影像文本互文并没有给本片带来真正“不可能”的、崭新的理解维度，一切都是披着“天马行空”外衣的陈词滥调。
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