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."
所以说警察办案经费如果给足了，也就不会有这么多幺蛾子了…………
也就棒子能拍这样的电影。确实很多东西不是非黑即白的，很多卧底也是游离于灰色地带，并非都是伟光正。但他们的牺牲和付出都是对警察这个职业信念的坚定。去抓比我更坏的恶人。
大本的那辆车什么牌子啊？好酷！
其实还不错啦，喜欢看这种白人社区的故事，就是故事太短了，成长性也不够。
开篇看着还蛮有意思，还以为会是PTU，看完后感慨，真无聊。开篇所有的线索都解决了，崔宇植和赵震雄的关系也是看似反转，实际一直是小迷弟。无聊的像个主旋律。去年有印象的韩国电影只有 滋山鱼谱和摩加迪沙，外加鱿鱼游戏，想看韩国电影只能找之前的。感觉这些年韩国电影被束缚了手脚，之前抄好莱坞抄的挺好，现在技术还在进步，剧本越来越主旋律了。
改编自被称为警察推理巨作的同名日本小说？？不是漫改？男主选的太嫩了，跟个弱鸡似的，行为也跟弱智一样
3.5 不仅独自撑起一个酒吧，还得撑起一部电影，舅舅不容易啊。
早知道这么容易解决问题，直接找那什么延南会大佬就好了呗，搞得鸡飞狗跳，就算吓坏小朋友，砸到花花草草也不好嘛。
故事从一开始就各种似曾相识，从走投无路的怨母稚稚子，到事业爱情颗粒无收，甚至单亲妈妈的恶性肿瘤以及从爱阅读到励志作家这样的细节都是老桥段，通篇看完毫无新意……但，就是处理得细腻，就是能再同一处伤上反复揭疤，让自己看了依旧感动。
挺温暖的，每个人的世界中都能有一个引领着你的星星在注视着你并带给你闪亮的温柔与勇气。（这部片子里老帅老帅的大本“平实、迷人”）
这部片子就是克鲁尼的导演梦和阿弗莱克的演技梦的合体，两个人互相迁就对方的梦想，但都明白对方不适合干这个。说实话，二人角色调换，会好很多。
有点像《孤狼之血》？也是警察游走在黑白之间的灰色地带……
近期看过的Ben affleck出演的第二部影片。另一部是《最后的决斗》。在很多男演员太脱不了越老越油腻的当下，他却依然帅气。比较喜欢这部电影男主小时候那部分，有些温情，有点感人。但自从男主入学哈佛并恋爱之后，这部电影似乎进入了另一种模式，说不上来的感觉。但也能理解作者想要表达其中一点是，如果一个人不爱你，无论你变得多么优秀，依然也不能让他(她)多爱你一分。男主背负着母亲的期许努力学习考上最终考上耶鲁，以为生活就会发生变化，但事实证明，如果自身不做出改变，寄希望于外界和他人带来的改变都是徒劳的。
从此温柔叔叔/爸爸又有了代餐，本真的是，多拍拍这些不挺好的嘛～
喜欢这种成长回忆录式的电影。导演竟然是乔治克鲁尼？？？
大本本演绎的查理叔叔 代理了小盆友父亲的角色: 在小盆友还小的时候就告诉他人生格言。。
故事开头就猜到了结尾，不过小反转倒是没想到。朴熙顺就是个工具人，有一说一小崔确实嫩了一点，赵正雄真帅……这故事讲得不行，这演员表就值三星，愣是没能加到分
有点像《孤狼之血》？也是警察游走在黑白之间的灰色地带……
5.2/10 虽然处处都可以窥见原作之所以为名著的缘由, 然而本片却进行了一次极其失败的改编, 并再一次向大众展示了野心大于能力所造成的惨痛后果。 多方势力, 多起事件, 游走于黑白间的角色, 行走于绳索上的行动...本片仅仅将最为核心的部分粗暴堆砌, 然而在有限的时间内大量细节刻画的缺失, 让故事整体如一盘散沙。 同时于商业利益上的权衡, 不仅营造了一堆豪无悬念的谜团, 同时也浪费了不少本可有更精彩下文的情节。 最终只能依靠演员自身的颜值与演技, 和仍算精彩的动作戏份, 让这部影片不至于太过糟糕。 (附: 虽然尚且无法确认是混音亦或收音的失误, 但本片在上映后收到了不少无法听清对话的批判。 作为一部院线公映作品, 犯下这类基础型失误, 可谓大忌。)
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