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."
值得一看的片子！有被吓到，看完一起复盘了一遍逻辑，到时蛮有意思的，中间有漏洞和难以解释点，拍的略显粗糙但是值得分析
漆黑的走廊，趴在门上听着门后的声音，气氛感做的还不错
非常cliche的剧情~但是感觉老一辈演技真的非常棒!奶奶演技太棒! 死者父亲后面自首真的感觉霸气侧漏了🤣年轻的就……emmmm议员一言难尽
表演和氛围都很到位，线索稍微有点乱，女鬼能力设定搞不清楚，比如可以轻易让男主角母亲自杀，为啥到男主角的时候折腾了这么久才杀掉，每次都看着男主角手舞足蹈嘶吼，女鬼不知所踪。另外既然学生三人组已经死了，而且可以随意附身，那为啥在男主角跟女学生一开始见面的时候，男学生杀男主角，女学生还要阻拦，女鬼这时候去哪了？
时间太短了，剧情大概能看明白，如果是连续剧的话能展现的更好些！电影的概念是不错的，整个故事穿插着好几条时间线，看电影的时候一定要认真，稍微错过一点，那就会在时间的长河里迷失
多层时间线重叠,不同时空的人还能肢体碰撞.还不如早年《两个月亮》,差不多内核比这有意思多了
虽然是宫九粉，也实在夸不出这完结篇质量，感觉老三池也想赶紧拍完收工吧，缉毒线实在单调得不得了，加入了铃木亮平的反派，狮王造型奇丑不说，人物也没支棱起来。菜菜绪回归没第二部惊艳，仲里依纱还是可爱的，最帅的还是堤真一，率领海洋生物勇破毒窝，抢尽男主风头，可怜生斗立了这么大功，回去还是小巡警，在女友管辖内色心无处施展了。
以为之前的那个案子会在故事的行进中挖掘得更深，谁知道完全变成了NPC式的存在，需要的时候就用一下，不需要也不重要，整个变成一个低端的剧本杀剧本。这部电影很吵，尤其的吵，明明就是一两个人在这种寂静的空间，也不是很多人吵架，但是导演把它变得非常的吵，因为在情节无聊的情况下让人觉得很烦。整个故事缺少一些基本的动机和推进，像是还没写明白的雏形故事。
三池和宫九郎玩的海阔天空～黑社会真是日本娱乐创作不可替代的乌托邦呀～
“现时的安稳是上一代留给我们的成果，我们最基本是不是也有责任为下一代维持一个不论贫富、不论身份，在法律面前人人平等的社会？”
虽然拍得一般，但是价值观比隔壁双标狗怒火正常多了
电影2星，剩下1星给智叔。编剧太垃圾，浪费好演员。
有点昆池岩的套路，氛围感还是有一些的，就是各种吓人桥段和故事梗眼熟得很。
开场悬疑氛围很足，中间剧情到结尾实在无聊！时空重叠，带降魔杵的现代驱魔人，多重性格的鬼魂，只有流于表面的恐怖气氛！导演以为扮鬼画符就是恐怖片，太低估观众了吧？
和十年前的韩片两个月亮一个意思，但远不如月亮好看，韩国鬼片这几年退步还是挺明显的，而且两个月亮在当年也不算好片子。
非常cliche的剧情~但是感觉老一辈演技真的非常棒!奶奶演技太棒! 死者父亲后面自首真的感觉霸气侧漏了🤣年轻的就……emmmm议员一言难尽
氛围和鬼的妆容都在致敬黄金时期港式鬼片的风格，精神分裂鬼算是一个新鲜点子，可惜后面全员醒悟自己早已变鬼的反转，也是港片曾经玩烂的梗
结尾但凡处理好了，分还可以更高~故事还可以，就是有点烂尾…结局太仓促太理想化…这个片子告诉我们一个道理，那就是做人不能太善良，做人不能太规矩，有时候非常手段，该用就得用…要么投个好胎，不然死不瞑目…
曾药师应该是想牺牲亲儿子保集团利益吧，结果被廖叔玉石俱焚拉下水打了个全盘皆输。剧情和几位大叔大爷演技都还可以吧，打两星那些人太苛刻了。
剧情很烂，还不如TVB的一般律政剧流畅，可惜了很多好演员。
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