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."
哈哈2021版的what a shit show，不得不说在幽默这件事上，美国人还是得管英国人叫爸爸。本片就一高考作文微小说式的讽刺，简单粗暴，保证阅卷老师在几十秒的阅读时间里明白自己在讽刺啥，最好还能笑一笑，就算糊弄过去了。
Is this science peer-reviewed? 地球的灭亡告诉我们没有peer-review的科学不是好科学！荒诞和合理的共存是剧本的美妙所在，尤其是电影中刻画的现实世界无比贴近真实更显讽刺。只是结尾略为无聊了一点。（以及，我感觉那个科技大亨的角色应该搞成模仿elon musk更合理，他在我脑子里就是会干出这种事的人）
还挺好看的，各种无厘头喜剧，无论演员如何出戏，都显得理所当然。我浓的Second Season真的好听惹，配上宇宙飞船好🉑爱
还不错，但拍法和演法都太常规了，太有底线了，既然都已经打算做疯逼了，不如从头到尾做个大疯逼～
只能说是妙不可言，喜欢。在这个灾难类型片已经创作枯竭的时代从另一个维度结合讽刺喜剧扩展了边界，而且对于近几年时事热点的结合做得很流畅很到位，新闻直播间的部分就已经比过隔壁法兰西了。至于视角傲慢的批评完全就是闲出屁的观点。毁灭吧人类。
其实片尾曲最后有彩蛋，地球上上最后一个人类居然是……如果你看过他们在楼顶搭景拍领导视察小区群众安居乐业、找演员在超市拍领导巡视物资充足、背假人上楼说是志愿者背老年人看病，这很写实
既然选择圣诞夜放送已经说明基调了——大家杯觥交错然后看一眼屏幕感叹“哦，这部里竟然还有他出演啊”“这是谁，名字想不起来了”“他现在怎么长这样了”然后继续回到自己话题的氛围电影
一想到这些荒谬的事情是地球现状就一点也笑不出来。没想到科技发展，人类一点没有进步，网络没有互联，只是各说各话、干涉别人，大概要一直到地球毁灭吧。
结局给五星。从“彗星撞地球”到这部“别抬头看‘彗星撞地球’”，我们见证人类精气神的逐渐下跌，可能还不是谷底，就是坠落、坠落下去……
评论那个写“别觉得这电影讽刺得多高明 看出来就多厉害多牛逼似的“ LoL 是不是平时没人让你说话啊？
还挺好看的，各种无厘头喜剧，无论演员如何出戏，都显得理所当然。我浓的Second Season真的好听惹，配上宇宙飞船好🉑爱
这可太写实了！这彗星不就是现在的疫情么！look up和dont look up，不就是清o党和非o零党么！就连试图管理，却失败都如此一致，真的太他妈真实了！还有润哈哈哈哈哈真的嘲讽到极致！当然有一点点不一样，当那颗地球上的动物生灵面对毁灭，而在这里动物们因为人类被困住而变得自由了。
太写实了，这就是我们的现实世界。政治如同弱智儿童的游戏，资本，媒体，公众，样样都无比拉垮。面对新冠肆虐的两年，看看我们的社会干了多少蠢事儿。生活要继续，毁灭了，只能说明不配继续。
玩到飞起，以灾难为引大力荒诞，各种资本主义下人类劣性一律放入笑料，讽刺得体无完肤，看喜实悲，荒诞到衬托现实。
前半段有种最近10年的真实感受，最后10分钟感觉挺好的
四星半吧。喜欢媒体片常用的明快剪辑，喜欢大表姐的蓝眼睛，喜欢A妹诡异造型也盖不住的盛世美颜，喜欢女王昙花一现的礼服，喜欢老李最弱个人特色式的表演，选角方面乔纳西尔和“AI先生”真是绝了。
首先是不够荒诞，尤其是在这个post-covid这个本就很荒诞的现实环境下看……其次也不够好笑，除了Meryl的表演；然后虽然众星云集，但出来的效果大多一般吧（Mark Rylance不要再演电影了啊啊啊啊啊
梗都很无聊，不过总要有人总结一下众生相。Catharsis完了之后，现实就是，并没有一次性摧毁地球和愚蠢人类的彗星，只有无限prolong再prolong的各种「病毒」。看看人类历史就知道，瘟疫和愚蠢是无法消灭的。Then how do you deal with it? 以及，左右两级ideology蠢事合集各来一部如何？
太混乱了吧，这演技纯靠吼；都懂很讽刺，但是真的不高级，别搞得像民主党多白莲花似的；全片最亮眼的还是A妹的歌；小李子收拾收拾老了也还蛮帅，Cate这妆好假，大表姐的meme什么时候发出来官方版。。。
我真的会信网飞是用ai写剧本的，而且这套ai程序还是从阿里那里偷走的……
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