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."
𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬.
好莱坞这些明星聚到一起，拍这种速成速朽的片子没意思，这不就是我们的「时代报告剧」吗？
真的是笑不出来的无奈。
pps：Melanie’s gorgeous.
我好喜欢这种拍摄风格，托马老师变身特效不一样了
观感会很大程度上依赖于观众的预期，《不要抬头》本身就类似于片中的那档节目，并没有拿出足够严肃的态度去讨论这种“灾难”，它的视角完全聚焦于美国撕裂的政治。碎片化带来的焦躁感倒是中国观众最可能去感同身受的一个点，在绝望中走向失败的宏大叙事+碎片化的地球生灵剪影+人类文明句号中那些看似微不足道却足以定义我们的点滴温暖，在终局来临之前这三个层面的交叉就像一个寓言故事一样，有打动到我。
导演再次献出了花里胡哨的各种影像材料和明星演员的大杂烩，材料特性没能凸显，明星魅力也没有散发出来（梅姨还靠着实力硬撑着）。观影期待值随着影片进度而逐步降低，也是奇妙的体验。
挺有趣的动画，内核还挺温暖。简直像是欧美版的进击的巨人啊，
讽刺开大了，荒诞不经但合乎情理，不过亚当麦凯这极其不稳定的导演水平还是让人捏了一把汗
有很多梗和彩蛋的电影总是能引起观众的共鸣，何况它还又讽刺又好笑还有点悲伤，爆炸吧，this wild world！谁都别想逃。
你可能想问，这么多大牌亚当麦凯拿来拍什么？A totally fucking shity story as fuck as the reality.经过2020新冠，《降临》和《火星救援》描画的人类社会危机应对能力都算乐观了，更别指望《2012》和《后天》这样标准叙事能出现绝大部分国家和地区。亚当麦凯打破灾难片传统，《不要抬头》里，大规模自然灾难不再是主角，而是人类社会由于自己深陷各种治理机制障碍和冲突带来的灾难级应对。这片子看得让人不轻松，因为现实提供这部片子完美的“4D体验”。这片子不是喜剧，分明是post-covid19 纪录片。扣分项，糟糕的剪辑和配乐。
看之前觉得是科幻喜剧+政治讽刺剧，但是其实不是喜剧的路数但胜似喜剧的路数，非常一本正经的，反而比讽刺更深的在讨论Are we fucking crazy? Or the world is just like this！我是在那首look up的歌里感受到的，讽刺达到了顶点，那个歌非常好听，歌词感人，歌手真挚，但我非常怀疑歌手投入去唱的时候是否真的感受到了look up的诉求，就是，人和人其实表面上其乐融融，其实内在根本无法沟通。我觉得这片子对我来讲，关于信息传递的无效/人和人沟通的无效/信任缺失，比政治更有讽刺价值。有人肯定会觉得这片子不伦不类，不够劲儿，的确，没有在某个方向上一直去戳，简直是扫射性的讽刺，全面开花，但就觉的不够爽，但也正是我觉得这片子独一无二之处吧。
𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬.
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挺好，非常应景了，多加一星，要是10年前小李根本演不了这种角色，因为还不够胖，整体黑的有理有据，最后竟然还有两个彩蛋，开心。
讽刺火力全开，欢迎对号入座，主创们出了一大口恶气。在荒诞性和写实性之间摇摆，观众会有些无所适从。要么彻底走恶搞荒诞路线，观众看一乐呵；要么写实一些，给讽刺对象升点智。
被时长耽误了，其实想打4.5来着，如果篇幅能更长一点，故事与人物能展开说一说，剧情会更顺更好，运用的三人交叉叙事不算很乱，但个人感觉也没有很高明，三条故事线要想一想才能理清，整体与tv的偏子供向完全不一样，三重奏探讨了更深的问题，在英雄背后不止有被保护的人也有被伤害的人，整体风格更近于amazons，是个好故事，ed真是神了，在一切尘埃落定之后一首蓝调让人回想一下saber的放映真是苦乐参半，放映到十集左右还为saber在微博上和特摄小鬼吵一架，口碑扭转的现在真是欣慰
那这样就造成了一个问题，从伦太郎老爹说出“你们是持有力量之人，我要消灭剑士”开始，这个故事的逻辑就歪了，你为什么不去抹消怪人？
𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩.
托马老师永远滴神，贤人和伦太郎都拿最强形态打，托马老师是一册就完事了。而且托马老师守护小路的眼神是真的赞，并且剧情大体都不错是上乘的外传，只能说你令和老大哥就是厉害
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