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."
意犹未尽…现在的喜剧，无论电影还是小品，能把故事讲圆就不错了，更别说把包袱设计得自然又奏效，密度高的情况下还每个都爆响，一点不尬，太难得了！（此处拉踩春晚）开心双壁闫彭合作，质量真是啥时都放心~主创们爱电影的心满溢出来，特意模糊了时代背景，方便致敬各种中外经典影片，雨中曲、教父、赌神…用光、造型、布景等~被结尾触动：成功只是比不成功多坚持一次！呼应戏里戏外男主和演员的经历：绿叶多年，第一次演男主，无论戏里戏外都很成功！ps.开始以为哈维是影射好莱坞前大佬哈维~结尾又感觉不是，但过程中很多梗又很像~
开心麻花最成功的地方也是最大的局限性就是没有现实感，只能讲一个虚化背景的逻辑构建，核心内容往往是身份的突变，让人物在莫名其妙中二次投胎，角色细节靠周星驰的小人物的不自知，风格靠三谷幸喜的场域构造，在各种借势拼贴中完成好笑的自洽。这没什么不好，但也不可能再往前走一步了。酒吧那场戏以后不好笑，对前面笑点的反复回收再利用，比较顺拐了。不过还是简单有效，合格的喜剧。
影片中保持天秤的平衡贯穿始终，回看现实中，无论职场中还是职场外，几乎所有事情的发展过程都可归纳为，产生冲突，相互妥协，实现平衡的不断循环。世上本没有绝对的平衡，就看我们如何调整支点。
超出预料的好
春节档图个乐，这要是放在了别的档期就是个烂片无疑
杀手是一个身份错位的结构性喜剧，演员假扮真杀手斡旋黑帮，还自以为演戏，越一本正经越荒诞好笑。看预告片的时候虽然都是单一的片段可能会有烂片错觉，但看完全片连贯起来，结合剧情逻辑确实相得益彰。好多致敬经典的梗会让人会心一笑，话剧风的表演有些让人耳目一新，挺适合这个故事。
陪我妈看电影，太后打仗的不看说不吉利，修电路板不看说哪里来的丑孩子，骑摩托不看说汽配城修车工平时都不想了解他们这时候还要花钱了解？于是只剩这部合家欢了…还行，我妈欢了几下，我剧情实在太熟加上麻花太行活属实欢不出来
“断人钱财如杀人父母”，有些人为了保住工作，真的愿意做很多事。
大家都在说这个电影没深意。我仔细查了查电影的定义，确定没有“要有深意”这一项。作为一个春节档的合家欢喜剧电影，是大家看得懂的搞笑，就很好啦！梗很多，和大侄子小张同学笑的前仰后合。就是话剧场景感有点重……
所谓喜剧就是把悲剧撕碎了放在你面前。无论是戏里的小角色还是戏外的真演员，都是第一次当主角，其中的坚持倔强和苦楚，将戏如人生演绎的淋漓尽致。整体还是不错的
差点意思。每个人的动机交代不足，情绪一锅粥。
黑到底，嘲笑到底，虚伪到底，把伪善的人和纯良的人全部讽刺了一遍。表面清清白白良好模范企业家，高贵邀请函随手送人。你把我当兄弟，我当成你女婿。《同学麦娜丝》丧礼变选举会，后有丧礼变员工鼓励大会。纯良的混混无辜惨死，产品的检验红毯走秀。博弈的资本是我有钱的爹，有钱能双手遮天，没钱就只能充当儿子认人做爹啦。JB演活了这个虚伪，油腻的形象，赋予了他一丝无奈幽默，明明很讨厌这个角色，但就是恨不起来。一直在想中国翻拍会不会很适合，不会的，压根不存在的～ @2022-02-19 00:34:13
又是半部好戏。前面错位的笑果非常好，但到了黑帮老二知道杀手是演员那一刻就完全泄气了，后面的叙事好似在不断打补丁+攒段子+卖情怀，失去了笑果。
精巧小品搭建的轻喜剧，热门话题通通囊括，杀手的表演一如既往的在线。
其实一贯如此，她是开心麻花的锚，负责了她参与的每部电影的情感重量，即便在昨晚的小品中。
前半段还好，比较搞笑；后半段逐渐离谱+失控。
搞笑和尴尬之间夹了个魏翔 怎么说呢 片子搞笑是还挺搞笑 而且我很喜欢黑帮组演员的演技 但知道是翻拍之后还是有点失落【金逸影城
西方讽刺的已经在我们看来见怪不怪了，他们当个黑色幽默，我们的生活偷着乐吧
而且都是大家知道的，再浓墨重彩临摹一遍，总感觉有点没必要。
这部黑色喜剧以讽刺的手法，讲述哈维尔·巴登饰演的一位伪善的工厂老板，为了在一周内提高产量从而获得当地优秀商业奖，对员工的压榨干涉已经到了无所不用其极的地步。
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