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."
游戏场景蛮酷的，程序员的爱情，代码就是情书哈哈哈
热热闹闹的《楚门》，小贱贱演得都像金凯瑞。后面半小时稍嫌不精致
比较零碎，世界观设定、观念、人物、观念都比较普通，靠调皮台词醒脑，钱老板骚舞和dude脑残比较好笑。让人想起、但又远不如楚门和头号玩家，没觉得这致敬有多好，只觉得好像是有点玩砸了。两星半
好看的爆米花电影！（看完电影坐地铁回去的路上突然觉得自己的生活也和npc差不多）
一边说着“不要过套路的人生”，“做你自己想做的，你是自由的！”。一边剧情走向又是满满的套路。《黑客帝国》《楚门的世界》《土拨鼠之日》都想沾一点，结果就是，毫无惊喜。不如闪现的美队和星战惊喜～
迪士尼就是干啥都不彻底，既然都把AI当真人认同了，母胎单相思设定的纯良AI遇到真爱之后觉醒了升级了，看到那个激活吻我都飙泪了，最后还是劝爱人找真人男朋友，世上只有基友好。这是什么？是对美人鱼们的冒犯。卖腐，迪士尼版权下的乐园梗集合，衰了衰了，比《头号玩家》还是差些
从NPC到NPC。实在不是我的菜，而且一大半的时间都在谈情说爱。我只在美队出场的时候笑了一下。
程序员浪漫起来就再没有其他人什么事了。看电影的时候满脑子想到的都是「游戏还是要靠创意/技术/原创性啊」「矩阵效应失败了没关系，你可以做病毒营销」「虽然AI技术已经出神入化，但大家依然在Youtube看直播」，确实想转发给我的业务学习一下:)
今年目前最棒的一部。没想到故事这么精彩，人物非常鲜活。NPC玩家发展出自己的个性，简直是人性的光辉。从喜剧片到轻微的哲思，到爱情，无缝转换。
AI觉醒与俗世生活双主题嵌套交互得相当好，彩蛋也有当年《头号玩家》的惊喜。2021.8.29@影立方773
當他們進入了新世界「自由之城」時，黑人小哥問 Guy「沒有銀行我們可以做什麼？」Guy 說「做一切你想做的」同樣是解開槍帶，槍落地，但此時就完全是另一種意味和象徵了。
Totally enjoyed it. Therefore 5 stars. 星战彩蛋极大地取悦了我。感觉比头号玩家好玩！但是电影开场五分钟我的感想竟然是：欢迎回到直男主导的审美世界，宝贝。（太久没看电影了）瓦踢踢演反派太好玩了。回头再扒拉一下cameos, 好像看到好多熟面孔。
①设定挺有趣的，剧情竟然这么俗套；②平平无奇的瑞安·雷诺兹…就跟平平无奇的古天乐一样是不成立的，一看就是主角啊
3；每一句我爱你都写进了原始代码，是中杯咖啡奶油加糖，是泡泡糖冰淇淋和秋千，无论如何智能变幻，里面都是想要亲吻你的永恒浪漫；
《楚门的世界》之 NPC 觉醒，经典的“你的独立人格到底是你的独立人格还是被赋予的独立人格”之绕不去的哲学难题。旁人直道程序员好浪漫，程序员却道电影 bug 太多。
里面很多成龙的，东方武侠的动作元素。还有妇联的梗。有元宇宙的感觉。最后游戏公司老板没有必要拿斧头去毁服务器吧？断电，或者之前的重启都可以啊。都砍坏了，就留着最后那个服务器让女主和AI来操作？也是一个浪漫的设定，工具人的底层是AI.看着这些工具人每天干着重复的事情，被人重复杀掉，也很像《西部世界》里的机器人。
不好看。我对小贱贱审美疲劳了😪而且为啥觉醒要靠真爱啊，这不就是个illusion吗。现状是：非romance里面充满了对爱的幻想，真正解构反思幻想的romance 反倒被人看不起。
我怕是疯了😂
程序员浪漫起来就再没有其他人什么事了。看电影的时候满脑子想到的都是「游戏还是要靠创意/技术/原创性啊」「矩阵效应失败了没关系，你可以做病毒营销」「虽然AI技术已经出神入化，但大家依然在Youtube看直播」，确实想转发给我的业务学习一下:)
没什么负担的纯娱乐片，所以也没必要试图在这样的片子里寻找意义和深度。不过不知道为什么，观影情绪总觉得差一口气，没有那种很爽的感觉，搞笑的部分也不太够。感情线更是看得我？？？结局爱情线的处理太草率了吧？我还以为会针对这部分稍微深入一下来着，有点失望。特效真的很漂亮，有很强烈的游戏感，这点我觉得是最优秀的地方了。可能是因为头号玩家拉高了我的期待值，这部稍稍感觉不够劲儿。【7.8】
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