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."
确实太适合后疫情看了，尤其2020年初的时候。然而疫情这场灾难已经转向了无人知晓的地方，以后谁会来写2022这部音乐剧呢
《芝加哥七君子》依然是艾伦·索金的传统艺能，在他的剧作之下，历史事件成为了几乎炫技的密集文本量轰炸之下的戏剧空间，以及恰到好处的黑色幽默。事件之影像在多（双）重言说者的支撑之下以过去式逐渐连贯的闪回。作为论争的影像，法庭或是悬置的，时空不明的脱口秀舞台，作为影片之于被迫在大他者“失语”增补之下进行的言说，或者是一场政治战争的intepretation，先决条件在于观众对于影像的信任，也是如今影像作为意识形态的诉求。当然，索金没有宣称影像的绝对真实性，而是将视角的主观受限性呈现出来。一切的论证感消失于那个煽情的结尾，在长镜头，以及突然响起的音乐中起立的诸众突然暂停叙事，如同宝莱坞电影之中的歌舞，他们以情感的胜利宣称这一事件的不可质疑。
8.0准确无误地拍出了这个剧本，但也被其束缚，不过文本本身所具有的能量足够强大。调度并不平庸，但只是做到了可以做到的——匠气十足的人物/权利关系网（带着压迫的法官位置逐渐被群众压下）。
20201025 60年代再次被当代世界所“审判”，不过这次却是在一个真正的白左的视角之中，同时必须放置在和2020年的对话关系里。艾伦索金讲故事的才能也尽可能呈现了一个多元，异质甚至是芜杂的社会状况，而将主人公定位为汤姆海登而非阿比霍夫曼，更非黑豹党，看看日后几人的政治生命，这无疑也是索金的政治声明——需要通过体制内部的变革，而非颠覆体制的革命，来实现社会正义。而这又成为了Mark Lilla式的，给民主党人在这个节骨眼上的喊话，也缩写了60年代运动的丰富内涵。两场戏印象深刻，一扇玻璃隔开60和50两个时代瞬间让人穿越回《罗马》里家具店那场戏，只不过这次视角被难能可贵地放在了街道上；片尾的反高潮，用念白而非长篇大论，以历史作为最强有力的证言，不落俗套，正是索金的过人之处。
真实事件？
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言之谓民权主义的抗争与反击，我更愿意将其视作面对铁一般的国家机器的殊死反抗，无畏却有力。理想主义难憾，国家资本亦是难堪。这节奏掌握的真他妈好啊，明明是纪实题材，却拍出了更加戏剧化，富有冲击力的影像，这可比软绵绵的PR左翼鸡汤得劲太多了
只想用丝滑形容索金的剧作和台词。一如既往的嵌套与张力将美国司法与权力系统嘲讽的体无完肤。《死亡诗社》式的结局是被统治阶级仅剩的反抗。成片其实略有一丝套路，但五星在豆瓣表示“力荐”，希望所有人都能看看，因为“全世界都在看”！
看看人家
出色而直给的技术水准让人领略文宣终极形态的高级魅力，拍政治审判非常方便地拍成政治电影，都只能是一场行军而非漫游。
疫情封控真的改变了人的很多心态，好像更能和剧里的人感同身受了。我很喜欢这部音乐剧，从情节设置、视角选取到几支令人印象深刻的歌（包括集体祈祷、女机长自述、酒吧狂欢），好像在看一部用轻松释怀悲伤的轻纪录片一样。在人道主义灾难，只有人道主义能释慰一切。而人道主义从来不是靠嘴上说说。没有人是孤岛，每个人都值得拥有食物、支持和尊重，面对你的一份小小的关怀和善意，未来也许有更伟大的回报和羁绊。911改变了一切，有些东西永久的失去了，但有些东西也被重新发现和评估了。如同疫情一样。最后，希望有生之年能去一趟newfoundland。
姜还是老的辣
简洁，精巧，越后面越好看（女机长每一次唱高音我都想哭）
花了这么久，断断续续的，终于看完了。就我而言，俏皮的学生作品，才气和趣味性并重，但本人多关注的一些议题没能延续。开头极佳，后面的剧情编排和台词也和我胃口，但是，属于电影本身的魅力，缺少了一些。
虽说是美国之耻，却仍是对美国制度的一次反向肯定：在如此恶劣的处境之下，你仍有借助程序绝地反击的机会。
随审判来临新闻剪辑的狂欢演变成一场持续150多天的马拉松…为游行权利冲突、陪审团变成空椅子、嘲弄揶揄法官已经证明了这就是一场政治秀， 当下应景的BLM抗议和总统选举的喧闹只是在提醒“不要忘重复的历史”
Phoenix Theatre, London, 4 Nov 2021. 疫情之后看这个剧还真是很有强心剂作用，大家唱得真好啊！
名字是世上最长的咒。❤️ 去年看了一半，重新补完。
All world is watching, indeed, we are just watching and free ourselves.
剧本水平太赞了，几个小高潮基本全靠台词和剪辑撑起来，这种高强度对白的片子可比一般剧情片适合艾伦索金，之前执导的那种编剧转型不适感也差不多都看不出来了，确实有拿明年剧本奖的可能
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