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."
花一个小时盘了一下这一年（主要欧美国家）发生了什么事，对于遥远的东亚人来说唯一的收获就是“啊原来这件事也是今年发生的，感觉像是上辈子的事了”
换汤不换药，还是“老味道”，但整体上远不如《2020去死》（虽然前作也没好到哪去），少了些角度刁钻的辛辣讽刺，补充加入的，是仍在延用的熟悉套路——难道制作人员没有意识到他们这点小花样已经用过足够多了吗？哪怕只在前作中？越发寡淡无味。甚至影片在短短一小时的片长中夹带了不少自家的私货，让人不禁疑惑Netflix拍摄《2021去死》到底是为了唤起什么，还是仅仅借着混乱的形势收割一波流量。
2021网飞交出的年终总结，依旧沿袭前作黑色喜剧风格。还是被疫情强烈笼罩的一年，在疫苗研发问世后美国又极端地分成了打疫苗派和不打疫苗派，就像去年的口罩问题。特朗普和他的支持者们继续鼠窜，持续发酵的BLM运动，阿富汗塔利班夺权，全球的环境问题等，如果2021给我们什么教训的话，那就是人类丝毫没有从2020学到一点教训。
如果说2021学到了什么的话，就是没人从2020年学到什么。披着黑色幽默的外衣，看似是新闻联播脱口秀，内里又好像真实的回顾了一次美国视角的全球2021。“疫苗让大家尽可能回归正常的生活”真的不是疫苗宣传片吗。
British humour to its driest
看片名以为忙内学坏了，其实没有你们想要的画面
有些事情似乎真的荒谬得比去年看过的所有喜剧都令人发笑
演技太尬。内容比dont look up多……
5. 因为充斥色情内容 metaverse should be called me too verse
解禁，在《解禁男女》这里是一个伪命题。同是扮演「下属」角色的男女主人公不仅是平等的「同性恋」关系，还是可替换的「无性恋」关系。其实，不用等到他们「互踩」起来，从他们「一字之差」的名字和一个模子刻出来的「staff」身份也能「细品」出来。另外，开篇那场「人事调动」戏也提醒了影迷，享有支配权的「S」角色并不由被困在「M」角色当中的白领阶层扮演。这一群体在这部为「次」文化摇旗呐喊的宣传片里从始至终是被「主流化的次文化」调教的狗，感谢女主温柔又体贴的科普，最终她被《定制男友》调教成了狗的主人。主人在这套基于权力结构搭建的底层逻辑里「喜上加喜」开发了一个情趣小游戏，看似解构「指令」逻辑，实则「变本加厉」巩固、细分和优化了「字母圈」这套叙事话语。以便让都市白领毫无顾忌地投入到这段可疑的「虐恋」关系里去。
非常荒诞又是现实真正存在的事件，世界变得越来越没有理性，无脑疯狂。回看，2019年是那么的遥远
三星半 当所有人觉得不能比2020更荒诞的时候，当自己也觉得个体我不能比2020更难过的时候，就离谱。就hold on。就得撑下去
完美的承接了去年的《2020去死》，依然是半纪录片、半伪纪录片的形式，去回顾在2021年美国发生的一些大事件，大部分演员都回归参与，同时增加了媒体人的部分，用十分戏谑的方式去嘲讽他们这一年发生的各种乱象，比如国会冲击事件，比如特朗普与拜登选票事件和美国的撕裂，比如阿富汗撤军事件，比如当下美国疫情的混乱局面，以及媒体的完全不负责任，比如对比阿富汗军人和美国人的区别（网红的那段话，真的太讽刺了，都是喜欢派对和枪啊），比如商业巨头开始考虑太空移民和元宇宙事件，比如明星被封杀事件，还调侃了他们欧美剧集过于政治正确的问题，将民众的反智、政府的无能、媒体的无良、商人的自私都展现了出来，简直就是荒诞他妈给荒诞开门，荒诞到家了。2021过去了，2022他们还会怎样的作死呢？
Not so funny. Quick recap.
谁会在意它的套路和瑕疵啊？我在疯狂心空！谁不喜欢听话的大狗狗呢？就要帅哥美女涩涩！我好没出息！好喜欢网飞的这些爱情轻喜剧！
202104哈哈哈哈错过了2020版本的，先把21看了，无限报梗，发现看了这么多喜剧类型还是最爱美式一本正经扯淡的风格。Anyway，希望2022善待我们一些
但世界不是比烂，我们做得好不好不是问美帝人民，而是问我们人民。
20220113 比Dont look up逗一些
What I did learn in 2021? I learned that nobody learned anything from 2020.
没有2020好看（影片和现实），未来不会更好、不会更差，就是那样
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