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."
个人认为看不懂这部电影的人不是缺乏一点善良or审美就是对生活的细节过于愚钝。片子不只是在讲亲情、爱情、亚裔生活，而是生活中大部分人正在经历的歧视、渴望被爱、先天生理心理缺陷、lgbt、缺乏自信、自我怀疑甚至性癖等等等等。我只能说觉得电影讲述混乱或者无聊的人自己加油吧。而且很多场景都是为经典电影or导演致敬的，并不是为了拼凑镜头。
▫️本人，科幻+奇幻片重度爱好者+泪点极低，看了这部电影不喜欢也丝毫不感动…年度期待很高失望很深排名前3了。
石头后面不太想看了已经，对“爱能战胜一切”的结局感到疲倦
像是导演编剧集体抽完大麻后整出来的一堆自以为很有想象力的东西，太混乱了，看得人很累，不喜欢低俗梗，讨厌刻板印象，厌倦了用爱感化世界的俗套结尾，get不到
有个镜头杨紫琼看电影的时候，那部电影的导演叫“Daniels”，因为这部双导演都叫Daniel
在这个世界里，你可以很快乐。
和解只是一个向商业和种族惯性妥协的假象，电影内部势不可挡的无政府拼贴如果真的将我们带向了任何地方，只能是那一片光秃的峡谷仿佛一座海市蜃楼一般，影印在了这一滩泥泞之上。
在那么多个宇宙只有一个没有人的宇宙才能免受报税之苦
挺恶心的片儿，太苍白了，无法想象大家是怎么共情的。那两块石头连bgm都没有的片段是全片最佳，因为安静。
相当搞笑也相当感动，最后20分钟响起Claire De Lune的时候哭了。即使没有你的宇宙我会过得更好，我依然欣然前往你的宇宙；即使时间尺度上一切都会奔向虚无“nothing matters”，我也愿意和你在一起，那些你我存在的宝贵时光是有意义的。作为厨师、歌手、演员，作为洗衣店老板娘、作为母亲的每一个宇宙，都涉及到至少两代人的纠葛与和解，女儿的lesbian和热狗宇宙中母亲的lesbian桥段非常有意思。横亘宇宙的爱，在没有生命的岩石宇宙都能义无反顾地陪女儿坠崖。
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。
只是。。。只是。。。男主的嗓音一直让我很劝退，长得像成龙，说话像曾志伟。
这电影我只能说能够欣赏但是不能喜欢。感官刺激过载了，看到大约一半的时候我的思绪已经飞出了电影。这个过于过于天马行空的视觉风格真的不是我的菜。漫画，电子游戏，香港功夫电影还有很多很多我大概没看出来的影响和成了这部大杂烩的电影。我最喜欢的部分是动作。剧情只能说挺熟悉的，最近类似的作品是turning red。这电影对我最大的作用是提醒我报税。感觉这是两个导演给漫威拍的面试作品带。
孩提时我曾幻想过如果我做一些特别奇怪的举动是否就会触发某种超能力，比如突然把圆珠笔放在袜子里行走。而这部电影，是至今唯一一个将这种脑洞拍出来的平行宇宙故事，因此，其有趣之处多不胜数。而其母题是，解构母女之爱，家庭隔阂下的真情。母亲是无条件爱女儿的吗，当我们脱离母体，在成长中迷离和挣扎，母亲这一角色能够走近我们内心多少，当我们痛苦，甚至想要遁入虚无时，母亲的那双手，是否会拉住我们。而电影打破了惯常的“服软式和解”，而是表达了一种豁达，当母亲穿越重重宇宙，抛离诸多美好生活，依旧停留在共你的宇宙，她说你胖了要多吃健康食物，言外之意是，女儿，我爱你。如果可以，这一世，我尊重你远行和归来的决定。
年度十佳之三 从中看出太多东西了 但最重要的是如何为了一个具体的东西抛弃手握住的所有可能性 现代稀缺 但这似乎就是我们自己的父母 “因为一无所成 所以潜力所达可以做到任何事” 前期只是在铺垫如果女主可以 会怎样 反派因为可以所以怎样 但后来就变成了如果我无所不能 但我还是选择那个最确定的珍贵的东西 只能选择洗衣店和经历一切后选择洗衣店太不一样了/无论反派还是女主 每个人的愿望都是那么朴素 女儿想要母亲共情 从此不再孤单 丈夫用善意对抗世界所以被视为软弱 人们用看似或笨拙或狡黠的方式交流 只是想离身边人更近一点而已 而爱也被看作宇宙终极奥义 就像能力可以multiuniverse 爱可以普度众生 也可只分给特定的人/临近结尾女主靠怪癖驯服所有人给我看笑了 只要找对人 没有哪种爱是不对的
如果“爱”是解决一切的关键词，那“拥抱”就是所有问题的最终答案。伊芙琳百吉饼前一套利落的亮相，却收在一个敞开胸怀的拥抱，是能给所爱之人最好的选择了。除了以“家庭”为核心东亚式的情感线外，多重宇宙中每一个耳熟能详的梗都给本片疯狂添彩，死命撬动潜藏在你观影历程里的影迷DNA。石头宇宙中的无声对白太感人，但听到那句“无论如何，我就想待在你身边，我想永远永远待在你身边”时，才真正拯救了那个如同整个宇宙中渺小虚无的垃圾一般，没有意义的我。
我也喜欢用脚触碰爱人的感觉，原来我属于热狗手指星球
东亚人一生的课题：我值得被爱吗？如果我平凡，庸碌，不合规范，不达标准，我还值得被爱吗？世界上有那么多人，宇宙里有那么多我，这一个是如此渺小，当你有其他机会时，你还会选择爱我吗？父母是这种外部审视的最初最近最小单元，而爱是唯一的答案。
多元宇宙中心呼唤爱只会轻飘飘地把前片搭建起的现实意义摧毁殆尽。生活逼疯母亲，母亲逼疯女儿，父辈没资格在疯女人发完疯之后出来收拾烂摊子占尽便宜。
亚裔女性有多惨？惨到从迪士尼到A24都要讲述她们的故事。
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