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."
通过死亡审视存在与生活的意义，不算太新颖的命题，而角色之间双向救赎，也是常见路数。但我依然叹服皮克斯的妙想，电影搭建了完整的前世来生体系，把常见的主题与架构讲出了新意。立体主义与CG动画结合，也很是清奇。
有人正在排队，为了一些无关紧要的东西。光这样想着我就幸福了。
甚至很大一部分人不会去思考生命的意义、价值何在，或许这样一部动画可以去提醒每一个普通生命，那些被忽视的平凡的瞬间也是生命的火花。《头脑特工队》成长版，从情绪到心灵的冒险，都是关于人的提炼。
“The ocean? That's what you are in right now."
②⓪②⓪最后一天和妻子看了。
虽然主题有些偏低幼，但还是很棒的作品。无论是风格还是想表达的内容。非常喜欢对meditation（内观）的表达：当心灵是平衡的，就算是在街上舞牌子，也可以是在内观吖。
制作太赞了，虽然国内没引进什么特殊版本，也推荐尽量找巨幕和杜比厅看。故事核心是古老的鸡汤，可是在当下这种时候，鸡汤也很美味。更何况还有爵士和猫…… 那个beyond的设计也美到目眩。钢琴演奏是扣扣熊的那位搭档Jon Batiste，太赞啦！
觉得跟自己期望值不符。唯一的赞美来自他们真的能把亲子这碗饭吃得那么好。
我宁愿把Soul看成好莱坞完成类型电影产业化之后对电影艺术初心的反思。我们急着赶路，到了目的地，却忘了为什么出发。所谓的找到火花，只是要让灵魂感受到任意一丝生活的乐趣而已。包括乔伊在内的许多人都以为是人生的目标或理想，乔伊实现梦想后，发现自己并没有想象中那般兴奋，于是他重新审视了过往的人生和生活，他开始意识到，曾以为求一片活水而不得的自己，实际上早已身处于整片海洋之中。在所有已知的规则和世界之外，依然存在着数不清的可能性要去学习。Soul在形式层面也是一座高峰，纽约市的现实世界是超写实系，而意识世界是二、三维变化的量子态，两种艺术风格的对比很好的构建出来物质和意识的世界。
就是纯粹的布道式的无聊。零共情导致零共鸣。
感觉这部电影好像很久以前就已经出现在今时今刻就等着我们的到来，套路的催泪桥段还是没有意外的奏效了，甘之如饴（灵魂导师怎么都这么像Finder
22就是我们咸鱼的代言人，我愿意称这为歌颂咸鱼的电影。只要过程是咸鱼得快乐，到最后渺小的一生都是由快乐的碎片组成。2020年最后一部在电影院看的电影了，刚好坐在影厅里唯一的小孩旁边，他妈妈和他讲解了一路他到最后也没看懂，又看到讨论说皮克斯把片尾原本计划的台词enjoy every minute of it里的enjoy改成live，观影的过程就已经体会到乐中带苦。。。
喜欢坐在椅子上大家都聚焦在自己身上的感觉，也喜欢躺在吹风机上望着领带往上飘的愉悦，还有银杏叶旋转落在自己手上的写意，还有披萨棒棒糖和不经意听到的吉他弹唱。迪士尼这次告诉我们 人生的火花不一定就是一往无前地去追求什么 不一定就是满腔热枕的热爱着什么，用自己的五感好好地接受这个世界给予自己的馈赠 哪怕是悲伤难过也好 开心舒适也好，好好活着就是最让人向往的人生。
整个电影片子其实很舒服，但是提出了一个非常大的议题，就是我们到底为什么活着？不过坦白说，直到看完的最后一刻也没有找到一个特别明确的答案，只是给了一句活在当下。这一点多多少少的有点拉分。当然对我来说最值得吐槽的大概就是 假3D，只有字幕，和片头和片尾是3D的这种骚操作吧！结尾的那段一命换一命，虽然是在意料之内，可是我觉得应该还有更巧妙的一些手法来处理这件事情吧。总觉得这个走向有点偷懒。最后如果是家长带小朋友去看的话，请不要在电影院里面拍照，真的是很烦人。
一个偶然的机会去重新认识人生与生活。爱好是一种性格，却不足以激发出完整性格碎片的火花，而像二十二一样接触到落叶仰望天空的那一刻，才是最触动的对生命对生活的本质向往。皮克斯对奇幻与情感元素的拿捏真的很精准，无论是寻梦环游记还是心灵奇旅，总能抓住生活中最细微的感动，并赋予它奇幻的魔力。
不到四星吧。节奏掌控很棒，很工整，全程没有一处拖沓、潦草或者多余。对于抑郁患者而言找到Spark太难了，不是像前半的22那样看待所有尝试都很无趣，就是像后面的他那样陷入梦魇。也想下决心去活。
Ryan Gosling saved Jazz and it killed Jamie Foxx. 平行解构现实堪比Inside Out，情节紧凑冲突刺激笑点炸裂，内容充实同时内核又饱满，一边讲灵魂一边更讲生活，没有目的真的会活得很辛苦，而活在当下又谈何容易。最好的黑人电影
里面有一句经典挨次：“灵魂不会将你击垮，只有生活才会啊！”只有经过现实毒打的人，才能说出这样深刻的话。主人公Gardner是个非常普通的小青年，热爱音乐却事业平平，他也会被所谓的“一事无成”击垮，几千年待在天堂不肯“转世”的灵魂22，她在某种程度也是“一事无成”，但最终找到了自己的Spark，尝到了人间滋味，开始热爱生活。爷爷像极了我们每一个人。
就算我一无所有，只要我用心去感知这个世界，我便拥有了这个世界。
皮克斯在年底给成年人的一点点安慰。
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