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."
Tonight we honor what was lost.
要不是看到Emma Thompson主演，这个题材我是不会感兴趣的，但出于对Emma Thompson演技派的信任，我就想看了。这是一部颠覆我对牛郎印象的电影。我对中国牛郎的印象就是一群好吃懒做、空有身材、毫无内涵的体育生。但电影里的牛郎Leo彬彬有礼、谈吐不俗、善解人意、不卑不亢、自尊自爱，简直像个绅士，让人大有好感。我知道导演的主旨是女性应该不以性为耻，应该自爱自强。简言之存人欲去道德。最后Nancy得到了救赎，抛弃了循规蹈矩、墨守陈规、按部就班，获得了人性的解放。但我觉得导演对牛郎这个行业想象得太美好了。更可能的是瘾君子、小开、骗子或黑帮分子。男主挺帅，身材超好，正值30岁时拍的电影。这真是一部很省场外费用的电影。
这种封闭空间全靠对话推进的少数人的舞台剧型电影，英国人玩的最溜。无论套用什么样的大环境和目的，还是需要靠人物关系推动剧情进展的。两代人观念的碰撞与和解，理解与自省才能达到有效交流。Emma Thompson真的是从年轻美到老，尤其第四段，我爱她布满皱纹的容颜和镜前的全裸
男主长得干净又充满欲望。但女人必须要等丈夫死了才能买春，太洁净了
太棒的电影。果然是女导演才能拍出的作品。男主不是鸭，确实是性圣人。国内的异性恋女孩们真的好可怜，她们的男朋友处处不如这只鸭，还要配合表演高潮。
在一个sexual的场合下, 个人觉得没有把对一些问题的质问和批评赋予沉重严肃的感觉很棒。至少对这部作品的格调而言，在节奏明快的同时把空白留给观众，反而能更好地让余韵发酵。
精彩到想要全文背诵。100分钟欢乐与感动的交织，更为可贵的是故事背后一个个鲜活的真实的个体。剧组仅用12名演员、12把椅子、2张桌子就将5天7000人在甘德镇上经历浓缩演绎，剧情流畅、转场自然，舞台调度令人折服。歌曲演绎也同样出色，几乎每一名演员都得到了充分展现个人才能的机会，对于各类乐器的运用和气氛的烘托也相当到位。以真实故事为背景打造的剧本，用令人信服的方式展现了小镇居民的热情好客如何冲破语言、文化、宗教的隔阂，描绘一幅灾难面前深入援手，毫无保留给予支持的感人画面。官摄唯一的遗憾恐怕就是在整体节奏的把控上，似乎有意做了放缓处理，相较几年前发布的原声专辑，听感有所下降。
小房间，两位主角，加之段落化的戏剧表达，导演把台词设置得极为精妙，从欲望, 偏见，到性工作者创伤的爆发，再到最后平和的收尾，一步步恰到好处。
电影很好，但是如果现实里碰到爱和你聊天的鸭，快跑ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘，不仅骗你钱，命都给你搞丢。
看的过程热泪盈眶，这就是原汁原味的百老汇歌剧的魅力。舞台表演永远最能接近艺术的本真，它的爆发力和感染力可能是电影都不能具备的。之前的《汉密尔顿》和《万尼亚舅舅》都制作了官摄版，如果没有疫情想必《来自远方》也不会诞生这个版本。至于表演，永远可以不用质疑歌剧演员的演技，他们超一流的群戏、走位、变装，这种舞台感已经说明了一切。棒！
我看的这一版中英字幕做的很舒适但是有不少错译，看完之后要养家禽的，大概率是看歪了。片中虽然有性，有交易，但却不是性交易，非但不是，而且是对立面。性真的是很复杂，涉及到如何看待自己的身体，如何觉察到自己的真实感受与情感，以及如何接纳自身，游走其中或掌控自如，涉及到个体的尊严，更进一步，以此为镜面，如何尊重与感受他人。记得有一项研究讲罪恶是因为缺少同理心，我看伤害他人究其根本还是缘于内心痛苦；而想要快乐也不是简单的事，不然亚里士多德也不会写本尼各马可伦理学专讲幸福生活。可以肯定，如果人人都能从身体到精神不依赖他人感受到喜悦，就不会有犯罪。但是没可能，人类从野蛮走来，只能缓慢进化。所以才会有各种机缘的互相点化，以意想不到的方式各自成长，失落的一角变成大圆满... 热死我了
ohhh my god 我理想中的gentleman
看到飙泪。这是音乐的力量，也是伟大的自由、文化、人性的力量，所有恐怖主义和邪恶政权在人类历史长河里，只是被冲刷走的一滴污渍而已。
完美剧作！作为中国女性，恐怕直面真实的欲望的那一天，还远远没有到来！所以更显这部电影的可贵！年度十佳！
pleasure is a wonderful thing.好温柔的电影
应该看现场，效果会更好，虽然没有那个观看的环境，却能够对其构造的环境感同身受。
音乐剧真是美式爱国主义的灵魂，眼泪从开头被煽到片尾。用少量演员来凝聚表现一万多人和三十八架飞机在五天内的故事，场景上的极简反而做到了最佳的想象力。
A fantastic sexual therapy. Maybe I need it too...
Sweet story. 不过我看到身材如此棒的帅哥竟然没感觉了🙄🙄🙄
我们需要怎样的性教育？记得前几天看知乎讨论为啥那么多渣男，渣女却很少，很大原因是大部分女性性不觉醒，如果女性和男性一样，从生物本能来说大家都是渣男渣女。说回电影，女性性觉醒本质上还是一种女权的宣扬，它让我们变回人，而不是被定义的“女性”。去被人理解，自我接受，面对天性欲望，这些才能真正能让一个人自信，并且无所畏惧。而自爱，才是爱世界的前提。电影过于理想化，但能够互相抚慰的孤独灵魂的对话真的美好。最后，感谢那些生命中遇见的人，正是因为在与他们的交流中，我们看到了真实的自己，并接纳不完美的自我，成为更好的自己。
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