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."
感谢说“芝士只是点亮世界的灵光”这句话的梁文道。
Inside Joe Gardener 😭 空降年度十佳。醉乡民谣、爆裂鼓手、九条命、星际探索、生命之树。毕加索早在哭泣的女人中就参赋了此生的意义。
看完悄悄哭了很久。从回到身体演出以后，在地铁上，我就开始非常难过了，是看到了没有方向的自己。
同一个世界，同一群打工人。原来那个会蹦的台灯（皮克斯）真的在和我们一起成长，知道我们长成了困在 996 中的打工人，然后依旧像孩时那样为我们带来慰藉、想象。乍一看还是一群圆滚滚的卡通形象，然而一颦一笑乃至按下琴键的指尖纹路如此细腻真人，又一次进化🧬等到排片上来，二刷。
人生的目的不重要，享受过程～皮克斯还是这么会讲故事。
和Inside Out同一水平的作品，但个人失去了第一次看前者时的惊喜和感动。
一记抚慰心灵的良药，告诉你生活是要不断寻找意义珍惜当下。反向励志，皮克斯对生与死的构思依旧奇妙。
{★★★☆} 每个人都在说这是生活多美好的姊妹篇，每个人除了我。这是和谐版、启蒙版、（相对）低龄版的美国丽人--因为它们讲述的是相同的东西，中年危机。这也是为什么每个人都在强调这是皮克斯至今最“成人”的一次探索，但为什么二十出头的我们竟也未老先衰地在银幕前泪眼婆娑、哀悼自己还没到来的中年呢？Ok，因为我们生活在一个加速的时代，我们忘记了怎样去做一个（相对）低龄的人。无论过剩鸡汤或抽象线条，这都是皮克斯一直试图替它不受年龄限制的观众们实现的目标：让我们回忆起来。
看预告以为是和《头脑特工队》很像，但看下来发现并不尽然。非常简单又细致的笔触，让你从另一个角度看待人生和生活，regular old living也可以充满美和感动。中间一度让我泪崩。PS：电影有一段把尼克斯黑出翔了哈哈。PPS：片尾最后字幕写“The Production of Pixar Animation Studios”之后有一行小字是“…and in homes at least six feet away from each other."看到之后会心一笑，这一行字可真是在2020年末时节对这一年最真实的心酸写照。PPPS：全部字幕出完之后只有一个彩蛋，是吼你“The movie is over. Go home!”所以往后迪士尼的电影彩蛋都是喊你别等彩蛋赶紧回家了吗哈哈……
皮克斯再次通过动画制霸现实，年末的重磅炸弹，对我来说不是催泪，先是心酸，然后释怀。曾经那些无法实现的梦想是多么挠心，无可奈何的滋味我懂，当二十岁意识到此生终将平庸后，我平静了。所以早已没有任何梦想，只想努力生活，好好活着，我的火花在每一部看过的电影里，在每一顿加班后的晚餐里，在每一次梦醒的美妙时刻中。
存在主义心理治疗。往前游，就是海。是呀，枫树的小翅膀真的很可爱。
第一感觉更喜欢寻梦环游记的和更喜欢心灵奇旅的会是两种人。
你明知道他在说教，在给你熬并不高明的鸡汤，但是呢，丧丧的我看这个还是感觉很治愈。为什么人生一定要有目标，为什么什么事情都要有意义呢。庆祝无意义。
明明知道是鸡汤，还是一仰头干了，还湿了眼眶。逼仄艰难的人生，总还是需要一点也许是幻想出来的亮光。猫太可爱了啦，今年最喜欢的动画角色！
但又反过来看这些生活琐事，好像没有什么比这更让人感到充实和满足的了，渐渐的，我开始爱上带孩子、做家务。
不抱目的地活着可能才是活着的意义。
看完悄悄哭了很久。从回到身体演出以后，在地铁上，我就开始非常难过了，是看到了没有方向的自己。
制作水平特别高，动态太流畅了，真正实现了人物做一个动作时全身的微动态，尤其是爵士演出时，发丝细微处随节奏的颤抖超级到位，精致逼真到令人震惊。行业标杆，全世界赶去吧。算盘守门人的线条创意大赞！蓝紫荧光配色很年轻向了，C冷冷说：《怪物电力公司》，一查果真是同一导演。人物塑造也年轻，22真的很像我认识的很多年轻人：似乎对一切都难以保持兴趣，自身智商情商双高，有时也愿意配合你但无法真正投入到任何东西中去，精神缺乏主要支柱，轻微厌世，幽默可爱。这样一个人物其实具有很强当代性，是这个时代的典型形象——这样的人，能找到自己的“火花”都是幸运的。可惜故事总体太简单，就几场简单的追逐，层出不穷的小问题迎刃而解，即便如此还是哭了。喜欢那个全情投入的忘我精神世界的设定，原来突然没了灵感是被22恶作了啊！
如今的《心灵奇旅》像一副在三岁小孩在美术馆墙上画的涂鸦。几个公众号发现了它，说这是件瑰宝，人们开始对着它端详、揣摩，抒发自己对人生和哲学的见解，再没有人敢提及它的粗糙和幼稚。
个人觉得很妙的几点：
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