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."
四海是韩寒四部电影里我最喜欢的一部没有之一。“年轻的故事，便是最潇洒的注脚”四海还有个名字叫年轻的故事，这个故事关于吴仁耀，一个在南澳长大的年轻人，他的世界里最初只有小岛和摩托车。他尝试走出去，去交朋友、被迫去外面的世界闯荡。亲情、友情、爱情都能让我们在外闯荡成长的同时更强大、更勇敢。
神奇般地很好看，虽然有些情节很尬，但是是那种看了会让人心情变好的片子。
影片里反复出现的问题：十五年后你会怎样？我不知道诶，有时候我总觉得我还在原地，可有些关于未来的问题，我也确应该尽早考虑，已过了是中学时代只有升学这个单一目标的阶段。这一次，是该好好想想自己的未来啦！
我一个爱看台湾纯爱片几十年的人、被本片男女主颜值劝退、坚持了十分钟实在受不了！
神奇般地很好看，虽然有些情节很尬，但是是那种看了会让人心情变好的片子。
把春晚大张伟和王勉的脱口秀送给这个电影吧。。。“啊，这。。。”
简单美好的清新小爱情，尤其是最后告白的那小段，一个不小心就被感动到了！
将经历拍成了电影，但不是梦想和ZZ的，当你怀揣梦想问星空的时候，现实不会告诉你前面还有多忐忑。
这咋能拍成两个小时的。喜欢就去说啊，磨叽磨叽的。一点都没有台湾甜甜的校园恋爱的影子
一个让我懂女人，一个让我知道我要成为什么样的男人。
韩寒的第四部电影。《四海》依然是一部原汁原味的韩式电影，前半部分充斥着大量再熟悉不过的韩式元素：青年，摩托车，海岛，漂泊的旅人，个性鲜明的女孩子等。而后半部分阿耀和欢颂去广州打工后，小地方的年轻人融入大城市的阵痛和酸楚，也让人印象深刻。当然，必须提一下音乐，这是所有韩式电影里最凸显浪漫气质的元素。除了痛仰，我们惊喜地听到了巫启贤、林生祥、万青和雷光夏等人的音乐，作为乐迷非常满意。
真没大家说的那么差。“欢颂 希望你以后住的每一间酒店房都是含早的”，这是韩寒式的情话，虽然有点土气的幽默劲儿 但起码是深情的贴近生活的。还有沈腾抱着刘昊然说的“希望你以后不要活得像我。”当搞笑的人儿都开始认真了 很难不被感动。还有跳下海游泳的时候他们开心地喊“我是车王”、“我是海王”“你们都是王吧！”这些文字小游戏也是他的小把戏 我觉得总比屎尿屁的无厘头要有趣得多。还有刘浩存 你们可以说她演技不好人品不好 但不能否认她是真的好看 别多让她多说话 好好在电影里走走笑笑也是养眼的。关于飞跃什么江什么桥 关于车 关于梦想 韩寒一直隐晦 没关系 纯当一个搞笑片剧情片来看也能给个3星。
男女都长的很难看，而且演技很生硬，剧情很冗长
菠蘿麵包，是簡單、美味與飽足的集合，是在彼此尷尬時伸出的援手；奶茶，是需要恰到好處的比例調和，是“我喜歡你”“可是我沒有喜歡你”；飯糰，是各色精彩包裹在平淡無常中，是花了心思的付出而並非單向的自我感動。在青春愛情的安全範圍之內，嘗試了一些不安全，周興哲和李沐的外形都算不上帥氣漂亮，普通平凡之餘，某些角度甚至可以說難看，不過，貪吃又愛幻想的項微心比林真心還要更平凡，陶宥全也沒有徐太宇那麼複雜的故事，也沒有《我的少女時代》那麼大的野心的表達慾望，卻也在青春愛情之外，通過女孩和她幻想中15年後的自己之間不斷對話中，編織了一個女性選擇與成長的吟唱詩。
依然挺韩寒的，有意思的是以前觉得从韩寒对电影的理解来看不像是个专业人士，但拍出来的片子都有一种别样的不同和真诚的质朴；现在觉得韩寒越来越懂拍电影了，结果这部确实精致了许多也看出有了资本加持，但也越来越普通、越来越不耐看了。但影片真的挺“精致”，几个通过后视镜呈现两人对话的镜头切换很成熟，调色布光也都有电影感。美女帅哥，尹正也把“中二”演得很到位，陈小春黄晓明这些配角都是亮点，小岛渔村的风景拍得都挺美，很有青春风光片的调性，但就是所有土生土长的村民都不说方言，东北话密度大得让人怀疑这里是不是另一个海南岛。
这咋能拍成两个小时的。喜欢就去说啊，磨叽磨叽的。一点都没有台湾甜甜的校园恋爱的影子
项微心到底是有多少个卡通发卡，还有菠萝面包和饭团真的很好吃。
韩寒还钱！沈腾尹正摩托车加起来能烂成这样也是牛逼
没有吐槽的那么难看，但也绝不是好故事。可惜了刘昊然、尹正、沈腾的好口碑。
刚看到名字的时候，还以为是“那男的给我当了一年的舔狗”。。。
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