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."
其实整体够不到四星的，但是最后一段，节奏和表演精准到足以抵消前面两小时过于细碎和稍显冗长混乱的各种穿插闪回带来的疲惫。她用那突然的忘词，亲手击碎了这“一周”的抗争和他们多年来共同铸就的一切。那几秒太妙太抓人了。女人就是这样，会偏执会疯狂会不管不顾直到亲自撞上那堵墙。只不过，撞上便是撞上了，回过神就不回头了。我昨夜的梦里，还萦绕着Nicole的那个眼神，足见力量。
比不上艾伦索金自己的上一部作品，这么好的卡司，略冗长。
3.5。索金的编剧技巧实在是炉火纯青，叙事时空结构、主题表意层次、人物塑造真相统统是多维度交织的。最高维度上，影片书写了电影史中的一个章节，书写了好莱坞制片厂体系由于战后政治动荡和电视等新生活娱乐方式兴起而衰落的时期；另一端则深入内心世界，探究爱情的真谛。中间所夹的，是一出喜剧，同时也是一出喜剧的诞生过程，妮可基德曼在这出喜剧中是演员，同时也是编剧、是导演。而当我们拨开喜剧那愤世嫉俗的讥诮面纱时，看到的是一个饱受挫折的理想主义者，这便是索金企图告诉我们的喜剧的真谛。两位主演的表演、剧本的构思概念都无可挑剔，败在谋篇布局的细节和整体的调度——编剧索金是天才，导演索金很平庸。
男主凭一己之力完成了一部电影，但还是掩盖不了拉垮的本质，为了剧情而剧情！
疑似黨員身份差點摧毀她的事業，卻是不再留戀家庭的丈夫令她決定放手。無意義的出軌大概是最無稽的藉口，既知無意義又何必當初？立下決心的女人最美麗。"I'm home." 我已回家，卻不再是你需要的那個家。
个人是很喜欢这样精妙的台本的，每一句台词都有存在的意义，不知何时观众就会恍然发觉原来这里在之前早有暗示，原来这一切都是互文。
所有的铺垫都是为了结尾的片刻失神和没有改变的剧本。
艾伦·索金编剧，拿的全是演员提名，没拿到编剧提名。本片的剧本也确实一言难尽，里面的人物塑造、剧情冲突以及议题的设置，浓缩在一周之内，依旧还是索金的水准，也因此让演员有了足够的发挥空间。但堆砌饿了如此多的议题，剧情臃肿无比，即使具体每一幕依旧优秀，但整体则平庸无比
所幸妮可展现出了前所未有的肢体表现力，为片中的喜剧和女主洒上些星光，增添些重量。
Nicole Kidman永远不能被忽视~
这个时间线前后跳跃看得我整个人都不好了，剧情根本对不上，然后才发现哦这是在插叙。。。能不能麻烦在大屏幕上标题字体打一个“两年前”之类的字幕！凌乱地看到最后觉得根本没入戏，铺垫全都浪费了，然而谢幕那场戏惊为天人，竟然看得我！号啕大哭！太悲伤了！仍然是Aaron Sorkin的sucker嘤嘤嘤
有些导演，他们的电影有复杂精巧的结构，密集难懂的台词，以及深厚的故事背景、历史典故，甚至野史八卦等等。更重要的是他们从不会在片子里做任何的说明和解释，所以往好听了说是有一定观影门槛，往难听了说就是小众，几乎无法成为主流，无法口碑票房双丰收。索金就是典型了。虽然他之前的片有各种各样的问题和缺陷(包括但不限于上面说的)，但就像查理考夫曼一样，喜欢的人也自然喜欢吧。
Luccille，一个精明、有主见、理智的好莱坞女演员。
但太凌乱导致很冗长，观看途中停了3次
你看这个结果呐 这是多失望啊 原来一个小小的家 终究是奢望
熟悉的艾伦·索金配方：传记、话痨、走聊。这次聚焦的是电视剧史上最伟大剧集候选之《我爱露西》——这个当年万人空巷的夫妻档情景喜剧。总体可能还是更适合老一代观众怀旧。
越来越多的传记片只能靠演员的表演撑着看下去
最后，在拍摄现场的一片掌声中，台前夫妇俩解决了拍摄、政治问题，台后却揭露了男主德西出轨的真相。’’The show must go on’’但这段婚姻终究是走向尽头了……
索金特稿，与《芝加哥七君子》非常像，一样的巧言令色，一样的左右互搏，一样的表达溢出。让我津津有味全盘吃下的，是他在叙事夹层里捏出了那个有形的框，那几片安插在人物周围，左右他们移动空间的厚厚铁板。每撞击一次，都会产生颤动的效果。
哇一开场一个共产党大明星就因为是共产党要被行业封杀看的我好激动，对位置换啊，讨论的问题很特别。结果这事轻描淡写的过去了，还是在讨论婚姻话题…隔靴搔痒。
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