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."
零嘴揩油，网络迷因，选举彩头，火箭英雄，利润至上，资本作秀，恐慌暴动，人民分裂，温馨躺平，太空移民，Jonah Hill 成最终赢家……将气候变暖置换成彗星撞地球的寓言，可以
这种片子就是流媒体存在的意义，因为要是花钱去电影院看真的会气死。和前几年的副总统一样，就弄个SNL gig大家笑一笑就行了啊，拍成电影真是恶心人
如果我们沉迷于虚拟世界和消费主义的幻象，不再仰望天空了，那实际上，彗星已然落地。
8.1 人们害怕近在咫尺的威胁，却在逃避自己完全不懂又不想了解但能伤害我们本质生活的东西。
PS：请放心地球上还有中国在，就不会让美国胡作非为。
美式诙谐幽默的方式讽刺了美式的民主政治体制，把政治与资本的台下交易夸张地表现了出来，疫情期间这样的电影应该是很受大众欢迎的。
在一个疯狂的世界里，如果一切注定毁灭，那你是愿意跟着一起疯狂，还是直到世界毁灭前最后一刻，也要保持常识、爱与理性？
过于真实以至于有点笑不出来。看完也想大声质问“为什么人们不害怕？！”那么多天灾人祸，那么多隔阂对立，怎么还有那么多人跟没事儿人似的吃喝玩乐纵欲挥霍？
原以为会是彻头彻尾的软科幻，没想到还真被片尾“直给”的硬核科幻秀到了，非常喜欢将荒诞进行至最后一秒，映射了荒诞至极就是真的道理。
扣分的主要原因，这其实是一个纪录片，而且有过度美化之嫌。所以有点欺骗观众[破涕为笑]。
各种讽刺看得挺开心比如stupid tiktok challenges 这星光闪闪的lineup光写完大家的名字都要花好长时间 茶就无足轻重的凑热闹角色 Cate身材好好！对比起来老李被称什么最性感科学家可见鬼去吧他在这里看着的确像我和我的家乡里范伟的扮相 如果知道什么时候会死 在死之前会做什么呢？和亲朋好友聚在一起最后的晚餐其实挺不错
一转眼，《2012》已经过去十年了，相似的地方是人类文明都被毁灭了，不同的是，十年前讲的是全球人民通力合作共渡难关，今天变成了各自为政流言横行，最后活下来的都是各国政要和商业大鳄，然后美国总统刚下飞船就领了便当，科技大佬的预测再一次应验了。大概是最接近现实的科幻电影了，唯一的区别是，还没人发现那颗迟到的彗星。
【前排提示最后有彩蛋，两个~】讽刺爽片，我愿意给五星，一屏幕的梗，哈哈哈哈。剪辑牛逼！听说这片在美国评分很低，他们急了呀。从来没有get到过梅姨的演技，对她的表演方式极其不感冒，但在这里狠狠get到了那种恰到好处严丝合缝的表演，一本正紧滴hilarious！大魔王被化得妈都不认，看到1/3才认出来TAT……A妹那首歌超好听，但歌词实在太搞笑，魔幻现实主义啊~p.s.婊姐这戏份怎么好意思找小李要一番？？？
拖了三個多月才看完，剛好趕在眼下這個時勢，就，彗星好靚，而我的頸椎很疼
这片子全员都是好莱坞大腕，大家确实玩得开
一些自以为是的讽刺幽默，搞了半天也没讲出什么新鲜玩意，权当看看这个豪华阵容。前夫真的完全就是胖头鱼本鱼
所以 critical thinking 還是很重要的
The rich have always been doing this… the comet is just making it obvious and dramatic. 很喜欢 Adam McKay 的电影，但是这一部后半部份的处理过于 cliché 了有点无聊。有点像个讲到一半的段子然后就没了。但还是值得一看。
讽刺得毫不掩饰，荒诞中带着悲凉。光看这么强大的卡司阵容已经值了，何况还白嫖了一场A妹的演唱会。最后末日前的狂欢如果再极致一点就好了。
《不要抬头》以一种扁平的群像浮光掠影地展现了后疫情之下精英知识分子的焦虑，灾难这一天文学事件转变为政治以及媒介问题，被无处不在的信息之流狂轰滥炸，可以称为半部桌面电影。不得不提的一个事实却是，导演通过无数即得影像强调灾难是一场全球性事件，但影片仍然折射了一种另类的美国优先，其余的国家仿佛完全不存在或不受灾难影响，影片所讽刺的一切也仅仅限于美国，可以说是一部美国的世界系。另一方面，《不》仅存的知识分子焦虑也被好莱坞—Netflix的自我感动消解，不过是好莱坞VS白宫的战争的又一个政治武器，正如影片后半部分所示，灾难的走向仍然是一场耗费价格不菲的明星演唱会，以及结尾美国家庭剧般的福音煽情（甜茶带领众人最后的祈祷部分）。若非有意为之，《不》实际上同其所讽刺的麻木不仁的大众没有任何区别。
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