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."
各种意义上的现实为客而自恃为主，秩序的扰乱者正是秩序的制定者。救助行动看似为了疗愈，实则是有心无聊的玩笑与挑战。是一种勇敢的不完美的女性主体的书写，对女性的身体性被母职与年龄所束缚的焦虑与反抗，对男性年轻肉体的殷羡与求而不得的嫉恨，对自我情欲的主导和把控，至于是否有“我不是一个好母亲”的愧疚与羞耻，应该说当成年女儿的形象全片缺失时，和结尾的回归，这已然表明是一种常态的妥协。一场旅途并非为了母女关系的试图修复且再次被刺伤，而是“懒惰又自私”的自我锚定。削出的果皮，和洋娃娃嘴里的秽物是无法切割的衔尾蛇。丨女人一眼就能分辨出亲疏，而那种谨慎的观察并非内疚，而是不解。丨金棕榈最佳剧本。
2020-4-21
攝影音樂都是超級驚艷
比《古惑仔》更粗糙，更写实，也更黑暗。90年代香港古惑仔系列在大陆青少年间爆红，除了几个主角颜值与演技在线之外，里面推崇的“江湖义气”，“豪爽”，“耍帅”占据了很大的成分，哪怕去死也是轰轰烈烈的。混黑道可以这么有型，当然趋之若鹜。台湾的黑帮影片则抹去了这一层美化，看这帮少年在黑路上越陷越深，丝毫没有一种畅快感。横尸街头得来如蝼蚁鸿毛，没有人看完它会想当混混，立意高下立判。
我是觉得女主只是怀念。她那么聪明，怎么可能不明白自己当初选择离开，就是因为没得选，才不得不离开。如果不逃离，当时就已经死了。我说的是精神层面，她是因为太窒息了才想要离开。年龄大了以后开始回看，会怀念，但不是后悔。没什么可后悔的，人只能做当时的选择。对照组很有意思，那种窒息感是做了母亲才懂的。但也可以看到的是，那个年轻母亲没有那么发自内心的想逃离，她只是想倾诉而已，和一个愿意听的理解的人倾诉。最后她看到玩具知道是女主偷了的然后怒不可遏的刺了女主，可以看出来，她不在乎对方是怎样，她在乎的只是可以说出来那些难受，同时她也一直觉得自己是从属于老公那一家的，她不会离开，即便再痛苦。这个年轻母亲也对应了一部分群体吧。是两个群体的不同。很喜欢女主，她的狡黠深刻自主意识和观察者视角。
完完全全反面的《平行母亲》，现在-过去的两条线明明可以紧密缝在一起却装神弄鬼破碎化剪辑，而前者母亲-历史两条线生硬无法融合却硬要移花接木。老导演在回归母亲的职责，细腻用历史的代价刻画了，两个无私，善良的母亲，后者硬刻画一个自私，失职，自我，欲度假逃离却处处原形毕露的母亲。配乐从头到尾，情绪从头推到尾，两部同样放在威尼斯，就可知道现在的评委喜欢什么口味了，玩偶，虫子，一大堆指代性的东西，如果没有原作的底子和科尔曼的表演可以挥霍，我都不知道这是一个什么样的破碎故事。
老罗和林强，老侯与高捷，蔡振南与伍佰，颜正国与谭志刚，史上最牛的阵容！《南国》的前奏曲，却更加绝望！
意不在说教 重在呈现 度把握的刚好 视听拉满 全员尤其是老小leda演技在线 处女作拍的既自如又到位
母职焦虑以这样的方式呈现是真的不算高明，甚至别扭，没有Coleman这个电影基本上一团散沙。
音效处理相当不错。强生那件粉色卫衣好好看，拍pbf时也穿过
摘：“想要假装坚强因此拒绝别人的善意、想要放手一搏却始终无法放下自己的矜持”
为什么总是要用这样的故事来表现少年的迷茫呢？艺术只能是猛药么？
近两年因为疫情电影产业甚是疲软，好多片子过目即忘，偶有佳作也是矮子里面拔将军，但这部确实很好——不落窠臼的时间线剪辑，手持镜头营造的不安氛围，典型意象的前后呼应，节奏张弛有度，配乐赏心悦耳，完成度如此之高居然还是一部"处女作"——可以说是天赋型导演了；回忆中的谎言与残酷，现实中的逃离与失语，在热闹人群里格格不入，在光阴流逝里赧于认错，于是周遭的一切，都陷于战战兢兢的试探和不信任，最终只有仓惶怯然的退场，拖着一颗身心俱伤的疲惫灵魂。（话说能以高浓度文学性去描摹如此细腻的女性心理果然还得是埃莱娜·费兰特……）/ PS. 奥利维娅的表演简直是化骨绵掌！
真的糙。下载的版本还是个粤语配音版。。高捷迷人，出来混就要跟高捷这样的大哥
谁说女性必须要照顾孩子，但是失去的女儿的母亲是不是也就LOST了呢？
【Netflix】惊艳的处女作，对于情绪的暗潮涌动处理的非常老道，张力十足。不过本片的最大功臣必然是Colman，举手投足皆是戏。
玛吉拍的真不差，没看过费兰特原小说，原小说应该也是意大利式的，所以本片的观感有些些奇怪，有些地域文化的模糊性，这是对原故事改变为剧本还不够细致的处理之处。老演员的班底，情感的表达十分出色。剩下的就是费兰特的这个故事，依旧很费兰特视角的一个反省故事，网上常说的孩子生下来又塞不回去了，逃走的母亲，然后这种逃走却依然是一辈子不可挽回的伤害，对自己对孩子皆是。不是一味的恐婚恐育，在这样的故事里，应该无性别的每一个人都去反省如果选择了婚姻、选择了生育怎么过好这辈子还是不可控制的自我毁灭这是个很难去决定的话题，我们看似一直在用爱为借口或者以家庭为载体去解决问题，而个人的自由呢是被家庭的硫酸溶解了还是所谓的家庭责任绑架，费兰特的问题太尖锐，作为男性视角去看有很多被男性忽视的女性阴影让我也很恐慌我是否如此？
玛吉·吉伦哈尔导演处女作，获威尼斯最佳剧本，亦是颁奖季真正佳作。1.一部直面女性充满挫败与愁闷的“母性”修炼之旅的电影，大胆地以虽毅然反叛家庭活出自我却身陷罪疚与孤独泥淖的女学者为主角，一如片名，几位女性与洋娃娃既身为“迷失的女儿”，又失去了女儿的真正踪迹。2.科尔曼的表演浑然天成，杰西·巴克利将年轻女主带孩子的烦郁愤苦、终在家庭外尝到一缕幸福时的欣悦满足及与女儿忍痛离别时的悲喜交加演绎得无懈可击，达科塔则展现出慵懒倦怠与紧张绝望的交织错杂。3.一部心理现实主义与不可靠叙事范本，首尾海滩如同梦境套层，闪烁灯塔、腐败水果、蝉迹松果等均为女主破败崩解的身心外化，结尾公路恍若林奇[妖夜荒踪]。4.大量手持镜头与虚焦特写，即沉浸又暧昧。5.时空错乱与音画错位的剪辑，恍若自我绵延与记忆流淌。6.配乐绝赞。（8.8/10）
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这题材我没兴趣，估计有孩子的会体会更深，但是电影是好电影
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