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."
非常非常可爱的片子。尽管bug不少，充满好莱坞的cliche和套路（而且也有革新的地方（虽然也可能只是大数据推荐革新，但这种真善美、更重要的是“可爱”的片子总能打动我。RR is hot.Joe Keery is hot.印度裔程序员小哥is even hotter🔥🌶️
拳拳到肉的爽片，从越南打到韩国，还有最后的公交车大战。
有人说这就是《楚门的世界》➕《头号玩家》，但我觉得主角Guy就是一个不折不扣的AI版的“摩西”，带领众人“数字罢工”。剧情紧凑，节奏恰到好处。快结束的那一段真的太好玩了，把美国队长、绿巨人、星球大战玩了个遍。
3星半，想法很好，铺垫不错，奈何高潮落入俗套，结尾沦为平庸。盖和米莉怎么就不能真的相爱呢？盖怎么就不能率领一众NPC反杀现实呢？米莉和键盘的世界怎么就不能是另一个游戏呢？
如果电影结尾guy真的与女主恋爱了，这就是一部革命影片，我会毫不犹豫地打五星。至于现在这个结尾，我只能说，就算让男主和那个印度小哥（穿上粉红兔子套装还挺萌的不是么）在一起，也比这个结尾好。
游戏世界哪有现实来的刺激，即便大部分也是NPC
当现代电子游戏不断谦虚学习并成功实现诸多伟大的电影视听技法和叙事技巧时，很遗憾看到一部电影对游戏的视觉美学理解还停留在“街机”和“半透明蓝”时代。
“There is no bank.”
终于有人拍出理工男的浪漫了！ 我的程序设置就是这样 表白的瞬间我竟然感动到掉了泪 天呐
没有一个老板会喜欢失控的员工，没有一个国家会喜欢失控的韭菜。请试着跳出舒适圈，不然，眼镜递到你手边的时候，也不敢戴上它。
死侍风的游戏 NPC 为主角的嘲讽喜剧设定 + Jodie Comer 女主还要啥自行车！！！简单 cheesy own it 的剧情加上丰沛的玩家笑点不负我久违的回归影院。拿出____全家桶的时候真的如妇联全员集结一般激动人心想要起立鼓掌。不过感觉 Jodie 和小变态这个角色的魅力还真是相辅相成，这部里还真是少了点灵魂。
非常非常可爱的片子。尽管bug不少，充满好莱坞的cliche和套路（而且也有革新的地方（虽然也可能只是大数据推荐革新，但这种真善美、更重要的是“可爱”的片子总能打动我。RR is hot.Joe Keery is hot.印度裔程序员小哥is even hotter🔥🌶️
本片对于虚拟世界的问题无兴趣或者理解，专搞烂俗桥段，对这个概念感兴趣想去看的还是劝退了。推荐1999年的 The Thirteenth Floor，对虚拟/现实这个概念的诚意要高太多。它本身又是1973年德国电影World on a Wire 的翻拍，硬核的可看一下
跑步路过英皇，忽然想看电影，一查有这一部，买了瓶干白就进去看了，关键词：《楚门的世界》《头号玩家》《盗梦空间》《土拨鼠之日》……，还可以继续枚举。旧套路有新元素，除了一贯的美式宣传，居然还针砭时弊起来：讨伐大企业，反对持枪，等等。不管怎样，对游戏玩家来说，还是蛮感动。
非游戏玩家觉得隔靴挠痒，只有美队客串稍微痛快了下。
上周末时最大的快乐。太久没看过这种纯粹“好玩”的爆米花了！太久了！从盾牌那里开始真嗨了！影视版权的收购合并有时也可以是很梦幻的事情，当然了，电影本身就是造梦术，在这里没有什么不可以。看的那场气氛也特别热烈，我和我的小伙伴似乎是我们那一片儿欢呼得最吵的hhh。这个角色非Ryan莫属，卡司们都好棒好快乐555。视听爆炸的同时好莱坞充满火花的奇思妙想太艳羡人了，何谓真实何为虚幻，虽然只是看似很浅地在一部爆米花中提出，但回味一下其实到位，能够做成这样就足够好了。爽而美，设定又有趣，卡司又优秀，歌儿又贼好看好扭，请在现在这个空虚的内地市场尽情爆炸吧💥
一開始它是喜劇，接著它變成哲學片，最後它成了愛情片。好喜歡後面的彩蛋。
剧情和主题思想却有深挖的潜力，尽管它的逻辑和机制不那么像一个游戏，只是大游戏独角兽公司与独立游戏作者的矛盾寓言。
“我是写给你的一封情书，写情书的人在你的那个世界。”程序员谈起恋爱来太浪漫了。
这部片子跟《The Truman Show》只是表层结构相似，实际上着眼完全相反，谈不上内核深浅高低。它更像06年的《Stranger than Fiction》。
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