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."
前半段狙击戏沉浸感很强，后半段稍显不足
“不要让观众取笑你，要去逗笑观众。”师父深谙要把主动权掌握在表演者手里，带动观众情绪这种高级玩法，很多剧或电影都还做不到。师父就像北野武的再生父母，难怪他这么惦念师父。 影片里还原了浅草法兰西座，这个在《北野武的小酒馆》里被描述得像圣地一般的地方，真令人激动。 柳乐优弥演得真好，连北野武半边脸抽搐都有演出来，神态甚至语气都仿佛真的就是年轻时候的北野武，不亏是最年轻的影帝。
唯一超出我的主观意识的是，一个小队没有打赢的敌人，一个人把他们全都消灭了……
拯救大兵亮亮，失败。小孩那段有点意思，总体略显单薄了
真TM的想不到在一票的新春节档之中，张艺谋这部狙击手是我的最爱。无论从人物的塑造还是讲故事的能力，可以看出张艺谋的功底还是十分深厚的。以狙击手之间的对决，以小见大，讲述了战争的残酷与激烈，同时没有刻意矮化美军。胜利来之不易的另一个原因就是我们击败了比我们强大的敌人，这才能容易的打动到观众，才让我们今天的后人知道这样的牺牲有那么的不容易。与张艺谋上一部，雪在这里也起到了对影片节奏的控制作用，同时跳出了固有的主旋律风格，这应该可以看得上是一部佳作。最可爱的人，这个既熟悉又陌生的词，经过了70载的岁月沉淀，其内里所含的精神，依然能够感动着今天的我们。看过昨天北京冬奥会的烟花璀璨，但也不能忘记曾经的烽烟滚滚先辈们的牺牲。最令人称赞的是克制，没有过分的煽情，没有华而不实的高大上，只有真实与真正的致敬。
轻、快、简、明（但是——面瘫是在其时年47岁的摩托车祸导致，并非片中自打年轻就有；至于僵硬的特效化妆，堪称诡异）。
最后讲笑话都讲出泪点了，还是厉害。师徒情也是相当感人了。影帝很努力，但他还是他自己。基础很好，但过程还是有些处理太戏剧化了，有点为煽情而煽情了。
非常小的一个故事，场景也非常的少，人物也不多，但是一个完整的故事。狙击手好帅哦。
总觉得剧情节奏有点问题，一般。一些片段为了煽情而煽情，超过了战争的真实性。美军角色过于脸谱化了，跟个木头一样。不是很入戏……
整体拍得比较克制，视听语言洗练干净，基本只有黑白红三色充斥全片。故事线也还可以，小视角中腾挪辗转以小见大，三五个交手回合呈现得也算清晰，但唱歌那段真的太突兀，时间也过长，感觉是点明中心思想生怕不突出，非要点死为止。另外，旁白叙事还是生硬了些，最后结尾高潮对决坦克的前因后果交代不明，场景也做了转移，过渡再平滑些就好了。四星。
人要穿好衣服，哪怕三天没吃饭，别人也看不出来。但是身上穿什么大家都看得很清楚。最后对着师傅的灵位开玩笑，真的把“喜剧”讲出来了。门胁麦的演技真的很好，以前只觉得这个演员不太好看，现在看来真是只有好演技，好看真的没那么重要。
虽说拍在世名人的传记片难免有美化之嫌，但本片以初出道时与师父深刻的羁绊为基础，讲述了北野武一贯坚持自我的渊源，颇具说服力。
张艺谋导演还是那么稳，一个简单的主旋律题材用96分钟就能拍得这么情绪饱满，全程都显得游刃有余，整体化繁为简，干净利落。没有刻意贬低和矮化对手，交战双方的旗鼓相当让影片的可看性更加高。总之就是剧情好节奏棒，没有尿点，国师品质有保证。
影帝模仿到位了。成名后回访师匠的那段戏挺好。丨所有歌舞段落直白偏冗长，为何不设计进行信息传达。丨被人笑和逗人笑是有本质区别的，大抵在有没有尊严上。丨鲸
聚焦小人物，体现大事件。全场眼眶湿了好几次，更是第一次感受到志愿军战歌的力量与气势。
前半段相当真实 本该在班长牺牲时剧终
剧情简单直接清晰不费脑，画面色彩单调明朗不费眼
故事里的每一个人 都拥有了一个符合正常逻辑的死法 这并不容易 虽然最后的坦克大战又有点神兵天降的意思了 但整体来说 真挚 细腻 他们唱起雄赳赳气昂昂跨过鸭绿江 这种热烈而不尴尬的表达 让人感动
讲的是在那么一个无名战场中一场无名的战斗，却那么让人心惊。章宇演的刘文武是个有血有肉的汉子，演得真好！最后一次点名时，泪目了…
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