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."
“当拥抱时 要抱得喘不过气”
挺有意思的故事，外月圆系列，但是反映了拉丁裔在美国的现状，少数族裔之间的爱情，后段的葬礼致辞十分感人，开放的结局也不至于俗套。
是因为我没有情结吗，就这毫无说服力的结局值得那么高评价？主线竟然是条言情线，睡了几觉每次醒来完全不影响跟上剧情，纯枪战除了吵也真的缺少观赏性
看起来像编剧中途跑路换人三次写出来的剧本：第一个编剧安排玛德琳退场换上古巴邦女郎，第二个编剧觉得古巴邦女郎落入俗套所以安排了女007，第三个编剧一看这烂摊子收拾不了了，干脆把玛德琳拉回来救场，顺便走走老父亲伐木累路线煽情还能顺带安排邦德退场，完美！
哎，哎，哎，也就菜鸟小特工女那十几分钟能窥到曾经007优雅俏皮又性感的余晖，其他就是，too big to fail，看得人累得慌
虽说情节有些俗套，但结尾还不俗套。导演细节把控很棒，是部轻松愉快情节温馨的好片子。
【IMAX3D】英雄谢幕戏可以给到满分，丹叔的演技加上季默大神的音乐把氛围烘托的悲凉又深情；幽灵党排队戏给90分，要恭喜安娜·德·阿玛斯拿下2021年度最令人印象深刻的女性银幕形象；开头的实战戏和回梯长镜头可以给到80分，硬桥硬马！但是其他部分就60分以下吧，除了爱情，你本可以有更好的文化、荣誉与内核。
实在无聊，片荒的可以看一下，挺轻松的，但是不搞笑
我的建议是，每个月看两部这样的电影，太治愈了太治愈了。轻松的色调。8/10
男女主没在一起的结局还不错。Vincent人物设定有点扁平了，到这个层次的男人哪有这么二维，只会更复杂更多面更手腕。至少让我笑出声了，轻松愉快小品片儿
因为过于政治正确，所以剧情的每一步推动都可以预测，不难看，就是少了点惊喜，hulu出品的好像都有这个毛病，少了点儿人味儿。
资本的力量➕绿皮书➕像我们这样一辈子默默无闻的人，看这样yy的爽片还是很过瘾的，突然感觉抖音讲解的很好，为什么国人觉得特斯拉好，因为大家心理上觉得它是从百万豪车一路降价下来的，哪个人没有豪车梦，这个女明星也一样，降低身份和泊车员恋爱，感觉高不可攀变成了现实，这样的心理谁不觉得她是高高在上魅力无限的人，五星⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐，很有意思的剧
这版翻拍很好看啊。。哈哈哈。。女主很瘦啊。。原来我看过她几部电影了。。可塑性很强，适合模特。。哈哈哈。。最近看bili选模特上瘾。。哈哈哈。。
这就是钢铁侠的套路啊（再讲多就剧透了）。丹尼尔真是很适合这个角色，无法想象下一张脸是什么样
今天论文交了，看了这部令人心情舒畅的电影。
没看过原版。但是感觉不错，恰到好处的真实。
这部真的不咋地……剧情老套，反派智商不在线，动机和野心也一如既往的莫名其妙。最后Bond死得颇为故意，就是要送走他即视感。好在英国片不要那么爱煽情，死了也就致敬一下…全片最精彩的部分应该就是古巴那个姑娘打斗的场景了吧
前面看起来还有点007，或者标准商业片的样子。从中间开始就充斥着漫长枯燥又愚蠢的对白，真的怀疑是用来凑时长的。反派搞一大堆屁事结果仅仅只是为了让Bond难过和遗憾？不知道是因为疫情还是又臭又长的剧情挤占了本应属于追逐打斗的场景，这部电影真的很不007。最后的结局只能说是“可以但没必要”，明明可以早点安排飞机来接人啊。虽然本身完全没有期待，但是整个片子也就女角色漂亮且花瓶这点勉强算是不太让人失望。
确实可以嘲讽看不上这种白人女明星和洛杉矶底层普通幸福西班牙裔中年大叔cp的政治正确翻拍项目，把它当成美国民族大融合主旋律宣传片也还还不错。但确实是演员剧本节奏导演各方位都挺不错的商业片。
翻拍得不行能不能起码找几个比原作漂亮的演员……
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