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."
观看太空肥皂剧造成的损失，得到补偿的唯一方法是承认这种损失。
另外，落難王子非Timothy无可演繹。
导演维伦纽瓦尤为擅长在科幻的背景下讲述故事.也将强烈的个人色彩美学风格一以贯之。影片中极为突出的现代主义风格的建筑设计，将空间造型的抽象和简化，连同沙漠之地的线条，目之所及，流露出别样的新造型主义美感，未世的苍冷感、宇宙的迷离与空寂下的留白也富有诗性。这次为了打造庄严肃穆的异星空间，最大程度还原小说里纷繁复杂的世界观，把神秘的宗教感带给观众，丹尼斯 •维尔纽瓦在服装、造型、音乐等等方面，都下足了功夫，许多概念令人耳目一新。
……作为一个独立的电影看，确实可看性也太低了；男主的眼神空洞得要命，台词也差。
一言以蔽之，王子复仇记（序）。
看过 2021-11-25
维伦纽瓦将男孩成长故事拍成了科幻史诗。牛蛙不断地打破观众对于科幻片的固有想象。让人肾上腺素飙升的战争场面、追逐戏就是不给你爽，点到为止，立刻转到角色身上。父亲裸身等待复仇与死亡的画面完全就是一幅油画，绝对可以挤进近五年最佳电影镜头top10。同时，全片也是汉斯季默的代表作。当观众以为汉斯季默已经足够伟大时，他用《沙丘》告诉观众，我能打破天花板好几次。如果说有什么遗憾，那可能是导演和两位优秀编剧改编的剧本没有多少惊喜。至少会看两遍～
看之前：什么商业片竟然要156分钟是要杀了我吗？？看完后：沙漠好美甜茶好美两个半小时根本不够我看呜呜呜😭算是近几年茶被拍的最好看的一部片子了，沙漠王子归来，那句中文说的真不错。IMAX正中间观影体验绝赞，甚至有沉浸式游戏的感觉。只是个开始，期待成史诗系列。
“每次讲不下去就切到故作高深的话语和梦境。 对于原著的文本改编，也没能跳出老白男意yin式的殖民主义思想” EXACTLY 看IMAX是真的很爽 甜茶太美 但实在白瞎了Hans Zimmer的配乐和音效 空洞到不行 又是一部“那么有钱但为什么会拍成这样”的片子
如果导演把太空飞船前面短刀互砍的打戏砍掉，只保留饱和轰炸的画面，再把结尾甜茶和土著决斗的戏砍掉，拿省出来的时间去交代岳医生为啥会叛变，这片子能轻松上8分吧。。。。美则美矣，完美则谈不上，作为太空歌剧已经满分，但作为《沙丘》还是差了点东西。ps,一万年过去了，包还是这种款式？
披了层科幻外衣的中世纪政治斗争剧。就算科技再发达，社会体系依旧是封建社会皇权贵族制，作者的思维跳脱不出所受教育经历与个人经验，整体显得老套与陈旧，而唯一一点史诗感是通过拖沓的节奏与装神弄鬼的配乐烘托而来。原谅我没看过原著，一看到黑人就想到zz正确。
漂亮清楚的畫面，把故事講得明明白白。一個惹人疼愛的少年接受來自全宇宙的挑戰，誰又忍心不守護。
各种意义上的年度最佳！！！！我可真是太喜欢了，很久没在电影院找到这么一部氛围烘托如此到位的电影了，可能昨天吃了个顿屎，今天看这部简直升天了原著de大头部实在是太长太长了，电影这样的处理方法真的可以了！另，有巨物癖的人（比如我）一定要看看！汉斯季默粉丝也要看看，导演牛逼！选角也太符合原著了
放在权游里面也就是50分钟的剧情 X（慢镜头 + 歌声）= 两个半小时 还好人美景美 是道好菜
还不错。不敢说完美但是看完起码对Part2充满期待。盛世美颜。中文会成为未来世界的神秘语言。
3.5 科幻文学传世经典的可视化，让人深感科幻与否真的看起来，只是亘古既有被讲了无数遍原型故事的现象悬置，至于这份可视又可感的现实是否是“自行”置入作品，我想维伦纽瓦的呈现对于影史著名诅咒的打破，起到了和彼得杰克逊几乎一致的解蔽作用。
这个厄垂斯是我想的那个阿特柔斯吗？哪里科幻了，这不是古希腊神话么？爸爸裸体横陈那一幕绝对剪辑素材，尤其给了牛头镜头，荷马描述阿伽门农被害就是“有如杀牛于棚厩”，还有“在宴席饮酒的调缸和丰盛的餐桌之间，我们横陈在堂上，鲜血把地面浸漫”，给对面剪个女王就齐活儿啦！而且阿特柔斯家好多次屠杀都跟餐桌脱不了干系，可以随便剪！ps 这个科技、文明和衣着、作战方式感觉不太协调……第一部看不出啥，接着往下看看吧…… pps 厄垂斯他们家管理有一点好：下属不用给领导打伞耶！
等Zendaya出場等了兩萬年 如果人類文明的更高級仍然是接男寶和裹罩袍 我已然絕望
美轮美奂，完全长在我审美点上的作品，像看完了一个精美的艺术展，全程目不暇接，生怕错过每一帧，面对这样的作品我无法客观
维伦纽瓦将男孩成长故事拍成了科幻史诗。牛蛙不断地打破观众对于科幻片的固有想象。让人肾上腺素飙升的战争场面、追逐戏就是不给你爽，点到为止，立刻转到角色身上。父亲裸身等待复仇与死亡的画面完全就是一幅油画，绝对可以挤进近五年最佳电影镜头top10。同时，全片也是汉斯季默的代表作。当观众以为汉斯季默已经足够伟大时，他用《沙丘》告诉观众，我能打破天花板好几次。如果说有什么遗憾，那可能是导演和两位优秀编剧改编的剧本没有多少惊喜。至少会看两遍～
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