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."
很棒的影像氛围，达到了诗意的高度，这是导演一向的优点，无需赘述（但也没有更多的突破，如果这是我看的第一部，会毫不犹豫给四星），然而比起《银翼杀手》和《降临》的高概念，这个故事似乎太具象地在follow表层的情节了，拖了“诗意”的后腿，人物的演绎依然是2021年的地球普通人，与全片力图营造的未来高级感格格不入，这种反差让我始终很难入戏………
视效和原声是做的真好，杜比全景深震耳欲聋，高亮厅3D还是有点嫌暗，暗调场景很多，也很美。故事线相对简单，拍得虽慢，也能被踏实按在座位上。视觉系统和佐杜洛夫斯基那版没啥关系，和2049有点像。维伦纽瓦挺能招钱，花得也不错，期待一打续集。
各种意义上的年度最佳！！！！我可真是太喜欢了，很久没在电影院找到这么一部氛围烘托如此到位的电影了，可能昨天吃了个顿屎，今天看这部简直升天了原著de大头部实在是太长太长了，电影这样的处理方法真的可以了！另，有巨物癖的人（比如我）一定要看看！汉斯季默粉丝也要看看，导演牛逼！选角也太符合原著了
看完深呼吸，简直比在高原还要让人呼吸不过来的震撼
需要看说明书的电影都不是好电影
各种意义上的年度最佳！！！！我可真是太喜欢了，很久没在电影院找到这么一部氛围烘托如此到位的电影了，可能昨天吃了个顿屎，今天看这部简直升天了原著de大头部实在是太长太长了，电影这样的处理方法真的可以了！另，有巨物癖的人（比如我）一定要看看！汉斯季默粉丝也要看看，导演牛逼！选角也太符合原著了
怪无语的…荷里活巨制常规的酷炫画面，其他一言难尽…姐妹会、为什么非得塞进去一个指南救世主？该不会长到七八岁了妈还非得带着他去女厕吧…
故事其实是很老套的故事，无论天选之子还是王子复仇记都是被反复演出过无数次已经不太感冒的设定了。如果换成普通的商业导演估计会被拍成群星荟萃的口水片。但怎么说呢，审美是硬道理，纽导用自己标志性的美学、带有文艺氛围的叙事节奏以及冷峻紧张的动作赋予了这个俗套故事独特的气质。一种漫天黄沙中的宿命因果。还挺期待下部的。PS：演员也都受这种审美的关照，无论Issac还是海王都很帅。以及我虽然吐槽甜茶何德何能这么多大咖作配，也不得不承认里面好多镜头太好看了（。
作为一部商业大片叙事密度还蛮低的，但在如此松散的氛围中难能可贵地保持住了庄严的气场
不是原著党。作为普通观众表示失望，编剧一定是Chris Chibnall，人物扁平还有废话台词，比如“他把门锁了”，这种CC式废话台词简直侮辱观众的智商。2001太空漫游还是神，沙丘第一部基本没有一个主旨，所有涉及的东西都没有深入，我觉得挺肤浅的（我觉得原著应该不会这样），2001太空漫游的哲学性依然吊打沙丘第一部。走马观花地看了一堆人打打杀杀，连奇观都算不上。我是感受不到宏大史诗感，反而觉得有低成本的小格局。佐氏构想的开头虽浮夸的但至少我觉得有新鲜感，这部真的就是从头到尾没有惊喜。虽然我知道想要佐氏蒐集的飞船设计是不可能的，但我是没想到这部里的设计能这么无聊。各个家族的辨识度太低了，整部色调还偏冷（当然可能是我选了一家不咋的影院），看到一半我都觉得他们是在极地而不是在沙漠，我有点受够好莱坞这种审美了。
两个半小时的序曲铺垫。。。只活在vision里的“女主”赞达亚。。。星球大战版权力游戏，宇宙世纪10000年还要拼刺刀（然后还像高达一样把这个bug强行圆了。。。“因为护甲的关系远程武器无效”就和“因为米诺夫斯基粒子，只能巨大机器人肉搏”差不多）香料更像个隐喻，人类历史上每个时期都会有一样类似于香料的东西让大家厮杀。。。维伦纽瓦的画面功力还是很靠谱的，但讲实话这部即使是在他自己的作品里比视觉上的发挥也就是中规中矩而已，然而又看到有人急着对标2001，那真还是差了远了。。。（我也搞不懂大家为什么动不动就要对标2001。。。求放过2001，在人类都还没登月，电脑还在滚磁带的年代里拍出的2001，其划时代性是无法被轻易超越的。）
沙丘属于设定繁复（且合理）但剧情易懂的隐喻类小说。原著的背景细节真的很多，但维伦纽瓦已经拼尽全力用最简洁易懂的镜头语言展现所有必要的信息。当然，这对观众的要求很高，稍微分心就有可能遗漏某个细节，从而导致严重的割裂感（感到无聊）。不同于一些差评网友，我认为极具宗教感与原始感的配乐、神神叨叨的旁白和闪回、宏大而磅礴的建筑及内部设计等恰恰是塑造《沙丘》史诗感的必要部分。建筑风格是真的很棒，也很符合《沙丘》的感觉（不忘提一嘴。真的太喜欢了）。
比预期好看很多很多，虽然高科技➕冷兵器的群架看得困惑，但全程还是非常沉浸，有被故事带着进入一个异世界。
【IMAX GT 2D 1.43:1版】极精致的史诗大片。维伦纽瓦的风格与电影的世界观相得益彰，延续了导演的一贯风格，很多画面放到《降临》与《银翼杀手2049》里都毫无违和感。宏大叙事与个体结合，将“银河帝国、星球殖民、梦境再现、王子复仇”的标准太空古典戏剧般剧情设定呈现出波澜壮阔、深邃震撼的质感，为观众呈现出一场视觉盛宴。IMAX 2D一代激光巨幕极佳的观影效果非常完美，夜景戏的细节都清晰可辨。两个半小时只叙述了一个开篇序幕章节是它唯一的遗憾。尽管影片多次预言式地跳切到未来的片段，铺垫出续作的冰山一角，但在落幕的一刻，仍感意犹未尽。四星半
异星人鸠占鹊巢，不思其反。宇宙无垠，却亦为了资源，谋求算计。疾苦覆盖众生，世人渴求救世主。预兆浮现，天外之音。得见未来生死浩荡，命悬一线，远赴命运深渊。沙漠深不可测，似汪洋浩淼，杀机四伏。沙虫奔腾，似大漠吞吐，凡人不过沧海一粟。预见未知，白色衣袂飘卷，曙光总与之同现。善恶难辨，死生须臾。群星璀璨，演技在线，尤其是母亲，这么多场哭戏，每次都能以不同的方式呈现。将舞台搬到宇宙，上演一出科幻版的《王子复仇记》。
事实证明瓦伦纽伦的导演能力和科幻艺术风格不一般，利用音乐、剪辑和画面把一个远不及两个半小时的故事扩充到了令人印象深刻的作品，但为什么好莱坞在面对系列电影时越来越喜欢忽视每一部作品个体的完整性，只能说还好导演是瓦伦纽伦
肥肠喜欢沙丘星球的绿植小细节了。甜茶这种满脸写着Hi but I cannot erect的气质确实适合演一个fxxk destiny的后人类暗黑片。
全片不太喜欢的部分就赞达亚后面有台词的部分表演，她说话时的那典型的美式面部小表情与整部电影的基调非常不搭，不过好在这些只有一个镜头…前面所有的梦境镜头里的她还是很美、很神秘的。
作为维伦纽瓦的粉丝，本片再次证明了他是个牛*的导演。一部没剧情的大型MV, 演员情绪到位，即使是慢镜头都无可挑剔地扛住了，说明他真的很会讲戏也很会导戏。就是明明不说人话，但要演得像个人……绝不是反讽的意思，他的边境杀手我看了无数遍啊，无数遍！我太爱他了！
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