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."
一个宏大的故事，内容过于丰富，拍成电视剧更好，很多闪回和转场，表达记忆以及幻觉，很用心，但是真的太多东西了，情绪统一不起来，虽然但是，愿意四星为敬
朔爷味儿在前段儿很浓，很怀念：摇滚青年的油嘴滑舌和仗义；北京姑娘的嘴上满不在乎，内心敏感脆弱；
剧作非常复杂，在国内一众影片中，如此复杂的剧本是十分少见的，虽然复杂但却并非十分出色，首先一点就是在这冗杂的剧作中没能做到扬长避短。同样都是讲述一个人的一生，我们不会觉得大卫·芬奇的《返老还童》冗长无趣，除了芬奇天才般的叙事手法之外，还有就是剧作上扬长避短，懂的何时省略，何时着重。本片摄影意识也很强，试图加强某种史诗感，最后一个伪长镜头更加能体现其迫于展示的欲望，只不过败在了王珞丹给吴彦姝突兀的配音上。
许多台词和场景很幽默，但是有点压抑的感觉。朦胧的似乎懂了点点结局，也许是年轻吧，不能讲太明白。而苏的人生也是真的好难。但是故事真的很怪。没有非诚勿扰好看
原以为是本杰明巴顿奇事的本土化，意外得还可以。一段横贯60年的爱情故事，叙事效率很高，野心很大，走故事情节，人物情绪比较薄，台词京味儿浓很鲜活，但前后割裂感确实强，王传君就是艾德里安 布洛迪北京分迪，摄影机观察视点，最后奔战场行使使命那段配着连绵不断的旁边确实困，最后的煽情有点楞
割裂严重，用爱情故事包装的干细胞抗衰老广告。
风格杂糅，怀旧、奇幻、科幻几个元素都在这部电影里，变成男主角诉说自己的一腔心意。电影中的女性形象不仅同质化严重，而且是那群人很喜欢表现的一类女性，演员没有演出什么新的花样，王珞丹仍然在执迷于外在的反差不同，没有从内在去刻画一个人物形象，王传君的台词时常太过表现，是我很不喜欢的一类风格。电影从后半部分猛然转到生命主题后，完全变成了演讲，如果前面看不到导演对于年代真心的怀旧，只是填充一些视觉来说，后来就更暴露了对于生命缺乏层次的认识，然后这个不老，令所有人都消失了。
其实是《阿甘正传》的叙事模式+《恋恋笔记本》（阿尔兹海默症）。王珞丹的人设跟《阿甘正传》的女主太像，最后的女儿也像是复刻阿甘的儿子。
一部电影最可怕的就是，关掉画面不影响你懂这个故事，打开画面，你以为这是电视剧。
Memory hints the legacy evidence of which ghost passes through the world without staying.
就像是好几个故事拼凑在一起，再次弄个长生不老出来？？？
生命就像银河，两岸遥不可及，虽互相分离，但心有灵犀。
编剧王朔用奇幻的方式跟观众开了一个玩笑：永生永世，抑或是一种惩罚，因为你希望用“不老”对抗错过，却发现最后自己失去了一切，唯有你孤独存在。但爱情，是可能是解药，因为爱情是一段一段随着时光变换状态的事物。早期是懵懂，前期是热烈，中期是相思，到了最后，仅剩下回忆。其实谁能一直一样？懂得爱，除了包容和付出，还需要准备迎接那个你逐渐不认识的人，或者容颜老去，或者物是人非。
可能在剪辑上需要做大强度的取舍
哀莫大于心死，从注射干细胞那天开始，王珞丹也死了，王传君也死了。
不知为什么，特别喜欢这部电影，从两小无猜，到两个命运不同的人生轨迹，直到后来如奇幻般的命运挣扎。“他好的时候，我不用在。”这是需要多么了解一个人，才能说出这句话来。
既然要点题“不老”二字，就该想好写实或写虚，可以是感情不老也可以身体不老。题材上如果是魔幻，干细胞研究成功，情节上设计拯救生命乃至爱情永恒的故事易如反掌；如果是现实题材，干细胞就是个幌子，不管是否成功，拯救人们精神世界的还是爱情。不如我来当编剧😄
传承就是全部吗？
两个沉浸在文艺片中的“优秀演员”，也别尬吹什么演技了吧。。。
很少打两星，但这部是真剪的乱七八糟。剧情衔接令人尴尬，王朔的那一套碎嘴子看不下去…太压抑了
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