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."
终于得以开启新世界，不知道佐杜洛夫斯基是否能得到慰藉。幽远的战歌一响起，属于异域的沙尘就扑面而来。节奏是缓慢的，信息量却很大，随着主角梦境的不断闪现，如同盗梦空间一般得以在现实/梦境、戏内/戏外不断游走。懂得节制的导演是多么可贵，用古典的气质去创造宏大历史，不能更迷人了。
第一次在科幻片里看这么多白刀子进红刀子出的肉搏戏
为什么飞船高级到都能星球自由行了人还在用冷兵器互砍？
不要再蹭科幻了。
这部电影里没有炎魔，有沙虫；没有雪，有沙。相似且不说，情感厚度更是远远不及。
旧瓶子里装的还是旧酒，电影开始十几分钟后我就陷入了”why are we still watching this in 2022”的困惑。1960年代的小说或许充满了未卜先知的政治隐喻，而伊战过去十几年后，电影仍意图塑造大片悬疑感，就变得无聊和故弄玄虚。1960年代的作家或许对cultural stereotype和exoticism的问题不敏感，但2022年的电影团队，仍这么具象化张震的角色、厄拉科斯人的宗教和女性着装，写出除了多用了点阿拉伯调式和风笛元素其他跟前作几乎可以无缝对调的Hans Zimmer配乐...太多stupid tokens，太easy and cheap. 总之就是过于典型的好莱坞工业大片儿，everything is too expected, 没啥营养。
从《银翼杀手2049》到《降临》，《沙丘》，维伦纽瓦开创了一个新的科幻电影类型，慢动作科幻电影或者称之为闷科幻，哈哈
一个细节，厄崔迪说自己年轻时也不想继承王位，想当个飞行员的时候，我直接跳戏到星战的波达默龙，笑死。
可以预言，今年的豆瓣年度报告里一定会有这一条“这部电影大家都喜欢，你的看法不一样”。
背景： 《市长和两代油田承包商的恩怨纠纷》
理想中的科幻电影，风格极致化，配乐恢宏壮阔，调度独具一格，具有了电影最应该拥有的美好品质，让我重新相信电影院永远都值得存在。
数万年后的人类世界，回归中世纪，封建专制，家族斗争，资源争夺仍旧不断。影片把西方古典气质融入未来舞台。声音与服化道富含异域风情，这里指的星域而非地域。
ten thousand years later women still only cry, black people still watering white people’s plants, and Chinese people do mysterious medicine
3.5 视听真的好，不记得上一次能够在电影院这样享受一段时光是在什么时候了。至于故事，每个人物都还是莎士比亚的那些，国王王后王子公爵勇士叛徒预言者……人性真的是亘古不变。
第一天看沙丘，第二天看兰心大剧院，待到巩俐催眠白玫的时候，某人扭头问我：「她也是姐妹会的吗？」
首先申明我本分原著党，150多分钟我感觉真就看了个寂寞，10分钟讲完的故事非得拖到150分钟，电影确实是大制作但真的让人提不起兴趣，150分钟没有任何高潮部分，以至于让我疯狂看时间，电影构造也是空洞，无聊，这部电影真的是2021年我认为看过最具有欺骗性的电影，宣传多牛，一看就废
不掩饰了，我就一喜欢在电影院里一动不动被大蛮力搞得欲仙欲死的大俗人
华人在英美等盎格鲁撒克逊人的眼中始终还是低劣、阴暗的人物角色定位，永远高大不起来。但有些华人演员却趋之若鹜、不亦乐乎。结果被薅起头发弄死，看的一脸尴尬，也算是创造了欧美影史的一种新奇死法。一部以科幻为题材的作品，超脑的地方没看到，反智的地方倒不少。21世纪也不会用如此高密度的人潮战法吧，一挺加特林机枪不够么？宣传后时代科幻题材却多次出现古惑仔打群架式的作战方式，嗷嗷叫、抡刀砍。无语。打斗前开启的类似能量罩的玩意，自始至终没有发现有任何作用。就是增加了蓝色和红色显示作用，蓝色启动，我要准备被砍了。红色表示我被砍了。实在弱智。导演还安排了甜茶手把手教你如何完整躲避科幻巨兽的办法：在沙子上用脚划拉。看的我都尴尬的低下了头。新型冠状病毒可能侵入了原作者和制片方的脑瓜子。当然布洛林的灭霸式表演很稳健。
不知道为什么那么多人说故事推进慢，对我来说全程都很精彩hh而且配乐可是汉斯季默这怎么睡得着hhh
第一天看沙丘，第二天看兰心大剧院，待到巩俐催眠白玫的时候，某人扭头问我：「她也是姐妹会的吗？」
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