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."
？其实这种美式和解在东亚家庭永远不会实现（已经有些厌倦了
最喜欢她俩变成石头的时候，没有人要求你必须做点什么，可是人就想要不停地做些什么，其实本来也就没有必要一直做些什么；
杨紫琼真的是太厉害了，非常棒的表演，完全瓦解儒家家庭价值观，去他妈的多重宇宙，我要我想要的生活。
爱是唯一一个穿越时间和空间的东西，世界的真相也许只是虚无，但生活的的真相也许只是吵架后的一次拥抱。每当看到这种电影我都会哭，因为我没有拥有，所以我很羡慕。
亚洲导演拍亚洲人好像都开始迎合一种论调，长此以往，ALM不远了
看得脑壳疼。翻了下两位导演前作，瑞士军刀男也打的两颗星哈哈哈，跟当时的问题一模一样，空有一个脑洞创意，拍法是近乎于广告式的天花乱坠，一堆乱七八糟的酷炫往你脸上砸。
能看到这么好的电影是我上辈子修来的福气。
真正属于21世纪的电影，一切都是21世纪的，一部真正的杰作！太精彩了！绝对的时代精神！
这是送给TikTok短视频世代的电影，一场跨越时空、技法的万花筒叙事大战，但本质上仍然是功夫喜剧。平行宇宙增加了表演的丰富性，极力、猛烈、随意的使用所有视听语言，包括画幅的四种格式（1.33、1.85、2.00、2.39 : 1）来为叙事做辅助，大量视线剪辑，类Texas switch运动、B-roll，让视觉衔接至花里胡哨。国内商业电影导演在这个片面前全军覆没，从此以后的模仿都只会显得吃屁。但，技术只是辅助，故事才是内核。仍然触动于那句：“I’m Sorry，it‘s a girl ”，而且这个片也不是旱地拔葱，早一百年前巴斯特·基顿《小福尔摩斯》就是源头，何况我们经历了《云图》和《遁入虚无》and 瑞克和莫蒂。
Loved the dilido! Loved the butt plugs! Loved that 最后credit里亚裔主创们都把自己的中文名字也写了上去！中间笑笑死我了，第一次在影院疯狂失控大笑
从此以后，星球大战再也不是人类历史上最伟大的科幻史诗家庭肥皂剧。
最终，经历这么多宇宙的自己，本以为可以做出其他选择，就能过好一生，结果才发现，看似最失败的一个宇宙的人生，也同样可以成全最有趣的自己。
也不好意思打太低分，整个电影有一种“虽然我看不太懂，但应该大有深意”的质感。盲猜可能与移民背景，身份认同有关？共性的情感部分（比如夫妻 父子 母女 性少数…以及淹没在琐碎奔波中的生活的不易）被离奇的故事展开包裹着，反而失去了一种脚踏实地的真实。每一次的情感转折我都没读懂那些台词的意思…在一团嘈杂和荒诞诡异之中，两块石头那一段显得格外美好，让人真正喘了口气。或许每一次跳跃所需的所谓“超越统计学的小概率做法”也正应和着这一点奥义：跳出现有的生活需要一点离经叛道。但被生活千头万绪牵扯着的我们，与得到所有超越所有这个境界实难共鸣
期待拉满之后只觉得沉闷，尴尬且想吐。所有一切都异常强行，没有function，没有弧光，没有母题，有一种被强制带着扩睑器疯狂刷抖音的感觉。任何情感和期待的投入都是徒劳的。漫威粉丝倒是可能会说一句，诶你这个好，比刚才那个巧妙。
如此“天马行空”的电影不值得五星吗
这导演疯了（褒义）。我想花十倍电影票在大银幕再看一遍（十遍）。看到后面能哭足四十分钟的都是正经东亚女人（包括妈妈和女儿）
从超英漫改借来技巧，多重宇宙犹如一团混乱的线球，飞速旋转，叙事比较青涩，似乎很容易挑错，但是这些线头又统统指向一个中心，女主与他人的关系和自身的困境。妈的多重宇宙，不仅仅报税，而是生活里累积已久的疲惫，是无数次的机遇、选择与命运交错，施加在这个普通女人身上的多重绑缚，她不理解也不想接受。我很快原谅了它的混乱，两颗石头的奇妙对话，堪称年度精摘片段。3.5
一个女人的孽债宇宙，说大也大，说小就这么小。这个梗撑不了那么久，还不如重新看一遍今敏。
可能我的心是石头，对和解无感、对世界上另一个我无感。以为是天才之作，结果是优秀学生的创意作品，报了太高期待，看的时候还是有些失落的。对于类型的元素也会觉得不喜欢，有时候觉得是用一种类型的风格去反类型，依然局限在一种叙事风格里。
个人觉得电影到变成石头的时候就可以，后面中国家庭式的团结和好太理想化了，父母和孩子之间的矛盾并不是通过说教才能化解。
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