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."
本粉丝要在在此彩虹屁了：阿伟太好看了吧！！三年没有大屏幕看过他了，还没有看电影的时候看了好多好多的访谈，谈到和剧组的合作他是快乐的，说起以前拍过角色和电影，开心地分享着电影幕后那些以前的访谈都未曾讲过趣事，这种感觉和状态太好了。难怪这反派老爸圈了一波粉，文戏真的很细腻，那个沙哑的声线和眼眶里打转的泪，看不够看不够，我想二刷了😭😭😭
2.教Awkawafina射箭的仙境婆婆说的“无的放矢”出自毛泽东。
其实我也不知道尴尬在哪，但就像我一眼能认出这个男主不是个真正中国人一样，长期在另一种地缘下的文化样貌也是如此。另外：可能是我主观、片面，但后来偶然发现即便是之前说尚气选角的另一个人林路迪，一眼看着也不像，查了一下果然还是加拿大华裔。
普通话说的不标准可以理解，毕竟不是中国人，但是这故事编的实在太老套太无聊了。分明是回旋环空气炮VS太极，武术招式套路合集，最后电脑特效打怪兽，还是一招秒wtf？老外就停留在了中华武术太极大法好的认知阶段。这文本是常规古典主义的，文化上也只是沾染东方元素而已，核心完全是西方的“we are family”童话。制片方为了避免“乳化”把梁朝伟这反派满大人重新设定成一个手环发射炮情痴，最后还被怪兽吸收了，这么一个有情有义堪比灭霸的角色实在可惜了，还真不如单做一集。6.3
没想到，还行。。。比花木兰好得多。台词很别扭，什么时候说中文什么时候说英文没谱。我爱Awkwafina但没搞懂她除了拉票房外在这个故事里存在的意义。片尾训练场的涂鸦好评
虽然影片整体平平，但我好喜欢Xialing这个角色啊，不管未来会不会黑化，希望漫威能保留这个角色久一点。
整个电影看下来，就觉得妈妈穿的那个汉堡比基尼不错。
巴士& 澳门打戏还是蛮爽的
铺天盖地的差评让我用吐槽模式打开电影，没想到除了后面突然秒变怪（神）兽大战之外也没多大槽点，动作戏也还蛮精彩的，比之前的《花木兰》不知道好上多少倍了。。。
也就还行，中西结合起来也不错，主题上是家庭、以及对于所爱之人失去后的态度，是要继续前行还是不放下。
11.10 动作戏很棒，梁朝伟很帅，东方文化底子很扎实，主旋律英雄叙事很完整，没在影院看实在太可惜了！
剧情挺简单的，进村以后的生活剧过于无聊，打架的场景都还不错，是有点功夫熊猫的意思，女一妥妥的花木兰真人版。配乐不错。男女二人组竟然是KTV党。普通话和英文转换没有必要啊。。。。。。。。跟同一个人一会中文一会英文好出戏，关键是普通话还说的不好。直接说英文不就好了，还得分神听说了什么中文。
我觉得，还可可。节奏是ok的，有点儿类似爽片的感觉。尚气也长得很在我的点上。不过元素有点多，又是父子关系，又是接受自己，又是women power，又是东西方文化差异，还搞了很多很刻板的异域风情(中国元素)，就……感觉很大杂烩。梁朝伟一边怪尚气看着自己的妈妈死，还一边认为老婆被关在gate后面，不懂懂。不过他算是贯彻了亲密关系高于亲子关系这个价值排序了。
前期的动作戏其实挺好看的！后期特效也挺不错！
白月光，照天涯的两端。在心上，却不在身旁。
虽然剧情还是又不流畅和值得吐槽的地方，梁朝伟那个角色塑造真的很不错。新宇宙要开始啦 漫威又在下棋了doge
每个角色都有自己的小故事，然后还能把Bob一家融合起来。很喜欢Bob一家，总有一种欢喜平静的力量，可能对于我来说，开开心心的一家更难能可贵
莫名奇妙的剧情，没了语境和BGM加成，两对人马聚成两个方阵，打群架前纷纷拉开架势的场面实在是太蠢了。
2022-07-18就还可以，有兴趣扒剧的程度，汉堡比基尼不错。
武打不错 总体比我想象的好 但剧情太割裂了 以及梁朝伟和陈法拉是如何生出男主的
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