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."
影院重新开门终于让我看到这一部。他们一切都好，已是最好。
是最多情的一集了，没想到英伦庄园里人人心中都有一段浪漫故事。浓浓的时代氛围感，轻松自如的笔法勾勒新旧交替时的尴尬，默片转有声的拍摄场景令人如同搭乘时光机器，一窥划时代影像的诞生全程……全片最为人动容的不是时代的新老交替，而是老伯爵夫人Maggie Smith的那场谢幕演出，以及被删减的LGBT情节（饰演男主角的男演员与唐顿庄园的男仆本有段缘分，可惜大银幕上只可意会不可言传）。年轻时一段露水情缘，却让多情男人终身念念不忘，以至于要以南法海景别墅相赠（羡煞旁人），垂垂老矣的麦格教授深情款款回忆似水年华——无论经历了什么，开始我们大家都不喜欢，渐渐也都习惯了，而这就是生活。愿可爱的老奶奶健康长寿。
确实是一个时代的终结了。Mary说Matthew像童话中的王子的时候，真的好伤心。《雨中曲》+《独领风骚》但是起码也没觉得招人烦。希望每个人都幸福。
今天下午看的，完全超出预期，比第一部电影要好看很多。今年新片中最棒的，上个月看的《神奇动物》把我给恶心到了。剧情上完全承接，没有bug,没有吃书。这才是时代在变革!开头汤姆个婚礼到老夫人的葬礼用的简直太巧妙。夫人cora的演员真是越老越有韵味，比《美国往事》时期更加惊艳!无意中也了解了电影的发展史。电影也无意中在反应时局：西班牙流感是不是再说当下的新冠；剧中当红女演员的无理是不是无意中也在映射当今的某些流量演员。“她的一张脸就能卖一百万张票”托马斯的剧情是不是删了，他也是每一部都能遇到真爱。老妇人年轻时的罗曼史也真是够丰富的。还记得看第一部是19年大二上学期，刚考完期末考试的那个期末，下午三点的场，电影院中坐的很满；这个月，我上周刚刚答辩完毕业论文，也是下午三点的场次，六号厅里就我一个人。
比上一部好很多，拍电影和继承南法别墅两个事件都很讨巧，充满了欢乐和温暖。对粉丝尤其友好，cue到了很多前情，让人无限怀念巅峰时期离开的二小姐和大表哥。看之前并没有什么期待，但看完之后还是希望这个电影版能继续拍下去，让观众关于唐顿庄园的记忆能不断被唤起，并延续下去。
内容稳定，但是没有熟悉的大表哥，眼缘们肉眼可见的老去了。大姐还是很有魅力，成熟了。
鲍嘉式的Guy男一号
情怀啊都是情怀！The marriage is a novel, not a short story, full of plot twists along the way.
i hope you'll be as happy as our cruel world allows
觉得没有第一部好看，更没有原剧好看，期待大失望也有点大，但总体来说还是很不错了，想给个3.5。
Zenitsu和Inosuke的声优可以选个听起来更有趣的人啊。说起来这两个人后来都结婚了啊，真是神奇啊。这个故事的设定虽多，但后面很少提到啊，没什么意义啊。
多重反讽
3.5 这集真的是合家欢。但是删了txl情节，没有txl情节的唐顿那还是唐顿吗？
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唐顿真正的「情节」在第二季就结束了，拖着一口气靠层出不穷的日常插曲和幽默讥讽的台词一直撑到现在。最多能说是电视加长番外篇，即使以默片进入有声时代，楼上楼下阶层挪移的设计嵌入电影内部拍摄电影的互文结构，本片依然是一场呵护保守主义，凌空时代病症的美梦，和电影没有任何关系。英式贵族文化的奇观消费从立意上就和无情解剖等级制度的原作大相径庭，失去能裹挟群像推进的主线剧情之后，进入「养老」模式的唐顿和满足风情观光的观众达成共识，于是病态促成于传统价值「大团圆」的结局成了剧本的唯一要务。每一个角色都值得幸福——是的，多达四十个的人物之中有一半都始终坚信侍奉主人致死是最完美的人生，这张泡沫巨网十多年坚韧如初。
接见过皇室，遇见过电影。也许这就是唐顿庄园越来越魅力的所在。一切都像传说一样神圣，很多东西就是越高级越高级。 不过对于没有看过电视剧的人来说，还是差一点意思。没有投入更多情感在这故事或人物上，体会就差一些！
虽然人物繁多但是并不觉得纷乱，每个新加入的角色都有鲜明的人物性格特征，而且塑造得很丰满，能够共情。配音那段有点致敬雨中曲的意味。南法别墅的剧情可以多一点戏份就好了，真得好美
故事和质感比上一部提升了很多。在怀旧时代这样的电影真的看一部少一部
6.5/10 " 距上次在影院里看唐顿庄园故事的银幕首秀已经过去了三个年头，这批集结在一起的最具代表性的英国演员们在这部电影续集中仍然保持着他/她们的独有的魅力与风韵，并通过接踵而至的""人生大事""赋予了这段极具时代精神的本土家族史诗一种更绵长的生命力。片中开篇的婚礼与结尾的丧葬形成了奇妙的对照关系，一面是告别欢乐宴席的坦然，一面是迎接忧愁寂寞的释怀。在庄园建筑悠长历史投射的阴翳之下，这份""人情""显得温暖而珍贵。
有婚礼，有葬礼，有新生儿，有新时代，还有电影局的剪刀。
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