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."
为什么要自欺欺人修行呢，为什么要保持体面呢，该做这些事的人并不是你呀～
每家的剧情可能各有不同，但基本上都是殊途同归
好几年没看过这么烂的电影了…坐在电影院的每一分钟都在后悔，后悔自己竟然为这样一部片子贡献了票房。整个一个大无语，没逻辑，演技浮夸就算了，竟然还有硬塞进去的黄色笑话….
凯瑟琳的呓语。最爱真帆的、也最适合牵她手的人，是葵。河合好适合演三无少女，就像田中圭适合演变态（笑。比起电影，更推荐原作。
大家说最精彩的地方是预告片，我看完后觉得还行，这个创意挺好的，虽然禁不起什么推敲。结尾林狗的出现让我笑出了声，唯一一个笑点了
看得我仿佛在苦苦修行…吔了屎一般苦…实在不行就离…啥啊这是…
喜欢，看似什么都没讲其实已经讲了全部，因为这就是全部。我觉得电影里有突出贡献的前几名可以算是收音师音效师或声指了，妻子和丈夫在家里的那几场戏，包括妻子自己在家的那几场，我觉得各种声音处理得特别好，婚姻已经走到相顾无言没有话的状态了，在家里听到的任何声音：榨汁音，吃药的声音，收拾碗碟的声音等每种都在放大，都变得刺耳，让人难以忍受徒添火气。至于所谓修行，钟声每响一次都是妻子在生活的急流里寻找还未被完全淹没的石头的一刻，可惜后来，水势凶猛到她再也难以找到落脚的石头，然后怎么办，被困，崩溃，然后接着生活，有时候life still goes on真是很恶心的一句话。
这电影之前，我看的是《僵尸肖恩》，相对于在电影中似是而非的隐喻，我还是跟喜欢这种简单直白的表达方式，但是毕竟制作团队和演员水平有限
走一步算一步的剧情，有些镜头真不用拖这么长什么信息都没有讲完撑死一个小时，好多转场用渐出属实没搞懂，后期进音效音乐才好点。肩扛摄影是真难看🥺
最近连续看了好多中老年女性的故事，这个最压抑，有多少的婚姻是这样的名存实亡呢。爱是恒久忍耐，但如果连爱都没了只剩下忍耐的关系呢？佛亦不能渡，她最真实的一刻应该是把丈夫按在浴缸里的那一刻吧，其实接近溺亡的是她自己。#恐婚恐育片#自由无价
看似是一通電話引爆的人生出軌，實則早已是自欺欺人的籠中困獸，不時響起的缽鳴不僅沒能讓人內心平和，反而如催命符一般將人不斷逼入深淵，所謂修行，也終究是一場煉獄，終了，也只能是無可奈何地罷了，連歇斯底里的發洩都令人疲憊與厭倦。陳湘琪不愧是楊德昌、蔡明亮先後調教過的，不著痕跡，尤其是長鏡頭中的她，和同屆的其他四位提名者其實早已不在同一水準了。
神经质电影，开头还唬人，往后越发低级。小焦演不知所谓的没营养角色，上台唱歌表现还不错。
剧情很儿戏，最致命的是被短视频提前耗光了惊喜度——本片确实唯一的好看部分在于和静物对话这一设定。另外标签里居然有“爱情”哦，但是王彦霖和焦俊艳真的没有任何CP感，望周知。
不知道人类为什么用婚姻这种东西来禁锢和折磨自己。
看似是一通電話引爆的人生出軌，實則早已是自欺欺人的籠中困獸，不時響起的缽鳴不僅沒能讓人內心平和，反而如催命符一般將人不斷逼入深淵，所謂修行，也終究是一場煉獄，終了，也只能是無可奈何地罷了，連歇斯底里的發洩都令人疲憊與厭倦。陳湘琪不愧是楊德昌、蔡明亮先後調教過的，不著痕跡，尤其是長鏡頭中的她，和同屆的其他四位提名者其實早已不在同一水準了。
能让人在心情不好的时候笑笑。不用考虑合理化。
王彦霖演起来不务正业的混子，气质还挺符合，那些静物用人来吐槽我觉得还挺有意思的，多半星给张子栋饰演的狗，真的太灵了，再多半星给结局，没有强行让男女主在一起。
林狗有笑到，但除此之外就没有任何笑点了，特别僵硬，结尾有点温情…国产喜剧是什么毛病？逗不笑你就硬往温情上头扯？
用聲音的表現貫穿全片，湘琪老師，已經超脫表演的框架，而是活生地像一個平常走在路上會擦肩而過帶有此境遇的婦女！
3，既不会拍漫改也不会拍喜剧，把猥琐当有趣，把油腻当诙谐，也完全没把原著那种奇幻设定下日常幽默拍出来，电影频繁致敬《疯狂的石头》，但水平比宁浩差了N条街
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