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."
不管是不同文化的冲撞，还是非典的盛行，本来应该成为撬动人物关系的核心议题，却最终都沦为了背景。美国女孩的视角本来很好，但是却并没有将人物的可爱一面做出来。反而是父亲的角色，在接妹妹出门转角哭的一瞬间，让我有点动容。可是我还是觉得，这里面的林嘉欣比《瀑布》里的贾静雯更像一个不知如何自处的母亲。
故事前段的节奏真的不太行，音乐给的也过于暴力，忍住看完后半段的才能豁然开朗，直呼过瘾，整体质量还是不错的，期待杰洛特的故事。
长评审核通过又被移除了，估计是因为提到GH了吧，我太不敏感了。也懒得重新发了。就节选一段自己长评里的话吧：倘若要选择某种类型片来代表台湾电影的话，那么无疑是家庭片了。甚至可以说台式家庭片几乎贯穿近现代台湾电影史，从侯孝贤到杨德昌，再到李安，台湾一代又一代的电影人都非常精准地抓住了整个东亚社会都无法绕开的核心矛盾，即以“家庭”为单位的精神困境。于是，台式家庭片已然成为台湾电影的传统。以至于在去年的GH中，竟然同时有两部电影在题材、内容上完全撞车。只是在豆瓣评分走向上与《瀑布》恰恰相反，《瀑布》从5.9一路逆袭到了7.6，而《美国女孩》则从8.0逐步下滑到现在的7.5。这似乎也从侧面说明了观众的某种倾向性。
1.特效和动作很喜欢。2.剧情是比大亨的.......剧版好点.3.英语日语两版配音建议听.会发现不一样的有趣的东西.
并没有期待的好。除了妹妹，其他三人的戏基本均分，而导演又想要拍出每个人在这个家庭里的不易，结果就是似乎面面俱到，但其实蜻蜓点水，无一深入。
对猎魔人没有了解，但故事内核完整，做完独立动画看看也不错
猎魔人世界的魅力，维瑟米尔年轻时居然这么骚。。
做为杰洛特的老师，必须将他的得意人生讲一篇，因为第二季中已经弱成一个小老头了。并讲述了凯尔·莫罕的一次毁灭的过程
虽然是魔改，但还挺有原著的气质，打斗场面很漂亮，伊格尼法印居然这么无敌了，反正看得爽就行了。
没有打炮，但有男屁股看（噫）
还算可以，打石化蜥蜴那里作画有些问题，估计是把经费省到最后的打戏上了，剧情比较中规中矩吧，算是值得一看。
补充背景剧情用！还以为维瑟米尔跟女巫之间会有点啥，有点无头无尾的感觉！
整体还挺普通的。只是一些很细微又很真实存在的困境。
情节紧凑，战斗爽快，杰洛特最后出场了。。。
故事是定在凯尔莫罕被人类摧毁的时间段。制作不错，比烂美剧好看多了。不过美国人有点高估猎魔人的能力了。
大量重复的争吵冲突，母亲死亡的恐惧成为女儿的恐惧，她的软弱会使女儿软弱，文化隔阂仅仅伏流在校园教育的表面，非典疫情沦为摆设。面对如此社会情景下缺乏犀利的剖析视角，十分想念杨德昌。
在和父母辈的亲密关系里，逃避太过于寻常，以至于每每遭遇能正视这些经验，并从中转化和拆解此中爱恨的电影，我都会心悦诚服于作者的诚挚、耐心和细腻。阮凤仪太老练，她的调度如此高效，她对表演把控又如此精准，以至于完成度高到无甚惊喜。她真的让我钦佩，还是耐心地贴近真实：我相信这是作者的坦然，对生活和成长的坦然；也是作者的忠诚，对那些人，那个时代以及她记忆的忠诚。2018年金马创投，《美国女孩》和《南巫》都是我隔壁的项目。我很羡慕台湾的年轻电影人，有辅导金，有台北文化基金，还有金马。一个爱护有才华年轻人，一个尊重自由表达的产业机制。不需要向商业和电影节献媚。只需要坚持那个主观的“真实”。
初回家夜晚被墊高的兩個枕頭，醫院看病放在他手被推開，手術後喂水不注意灑在她身上，開場三場簡單又高效的戲馬上塑造出一個「不貼心事事都幹不好」的丈夫形象。結尾處他瞬間發飆拿起衣架打女兒，對應回上課老師的體罰，再次構建出一個典型的東方式觀念的父親。以賺錢為藉口，自私，突如其來的暴力，卻又在一些微小的時刻，會寵溺女兒的父親，比如給女兒買的腳踏車，以及放棄買書桌買梳妝臺給她。這個長期「缺席」的父親，只能用單向的方式和自己的女兒交流，從未真正理解她。結尾弄耳朵那場戲很厲害，因為前面鋪墊媽媽有幫爸爸弄，同時又是極日常行為。『耳朵』意味著母親與女兒開始真正互相「傾聽」，同時用一種自然的方式拉近身體上的接觸與距離，怪不得海報以此作為視覺，是全片最重要也最核心的一場，靈感〈一一〉？即使這個轉折來得有點不夠自然。
所以为啥geralt秃了😂很西方文化的除魔，剧情偶尔小bug，打戏偶尔迷惑，但整体观影体验还算可以。
时间流逝，抹去欲望，却没有抹去最初的愿望。
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