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."
看了《麦琪的礼物》才更懂这部电影，在快餐时代，更显得真心可贵，所以是满满的讽刺，很能get到韩导的点，比之前的几部片子要丰富些。这也绝不是青春电影或者摩托题材电影，有点可惜选错了档期
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很喜欢韩寒作品的风格和氛围……
如果故事能够不紧不慢娓娓道来就更棒了
勉强三星。嬉皮笑脸，掩盖不了故事的枯燥，人物的单薄。
为什么要拍Showta哥？
韩寒缺乏故事结构的把控能力，无论是小说还是电影都有这个问题。少年才子没有系统训练和钻研也终究成不了大家。都年到中年了依旧停留在自己的少年舒适区。一颗星给昊然弟弟。
尹正死前部分完全是俩男人纯爱电影，飙车见家人，贷款发工资追求，在昏暗的灯光下壁咚着说我好喜欢你，跃进海洋中熄灭生命之火。尹正是不是抢了很多女主的部分啊？这女主演技声音都很差。女主如果是马思纯这种要死不活的文艺调调，或者张子枫跟刘源一起营销，或是赵今麦这种充满活力的，电影会变得好看。
已经欣赏不来了这种青春疼痛文学了，是我老了么？只觉得剧情东拼西凑零零碎碎。
这个时代的风停了。
拍了个稀碎，哪都不挨着，叙事的推动非常勉强，总是感觉要拍不下去了，挺业余的，只能看看尹正
海岛、赛摩托、酒吧、高利贷、打工人，韩寒总能抓住引起议题的元素收割屌丝的情绪和票房。个人觉得在这部电影只是元素的堆砌，加了太多东西又什么都说不透，看起来就一片苍白。顺口提一句，演员的演技大多不太行
与《奇迹》最后所有人都收获成功恰恰相反，这部电影的结局是相当悲惨的，物是人非，车损人亡，生活仿佛没有了一切希望，一切本该向好的方向发展的事情，全都搞砸了，看完只有无尽的压抑。
韩寒是少有的能把电影玩的如此文学的编导，既有深沉的幽默，又有锋芒的隐喻，这太适合剧本的文艺感了；当然，影像另当别论。喜欢的人会非常喜欢，大多数大众会非常不喜欢。我减去一星，只是觉得韩寒一直欠我们一个美好的结局。
啊这个剧本零散成这个样子，我都无法控制我的不忍心不去责备了。韩寒这是践行了男人至死是少年的格言，电影写成了新概念未入选作文的水平——语句优美，辞藻华丽，词不达意——你看，我认识的字你不会组合。
刘浩存的表演有点做作，和刘昊然感觉不在一个情境中。沈腾离场后整体就掉下来了，一直在让观众落空，桥段老套，韩寒老了。
可以想象大过年看这个片子得多扫兴，故事中的生活多数时刻都是痛苦的、艰难的，只靠着那一丝善意、爱意和美好支撑着，导演编剧却一次次恶意的践踏、摧残、抹去这些。这是多么强行的恶意啊！
飞越珠江车手 尹建豪 如果我是韩寒就把这几个字打在演员表最上面
有的时候人生就像那个摩托笼子一样，我们看似拼命的踩油门，实际上却是在原地转圈，每个人都想闯出自己的一方天地，但是骑摩托的依旧骑摩托，做服务员的依旧做服务员，看似有很多选择，但是尤其成年后，选择的余地并不多。
3*，四海为家，不如老窝一缩，狼狈的在大城市里装样子，不如坦然的在小镇里洒脱。隧道里，抓螃蟹的心声能知晓，去广州，去演唱会的愿望却听不到。渐渐的，纯洁的爱情在匮乏的金钱下艰难维持，难得还能保持初心，既想自我独立，又想心装对方。可是，世界太小了，太巧了，相互间的不期而遇，相互间的因果牵绊，有惊喜，更多的是导致悲剧。前面很欢乐，后面也很悲伤，最大的不足，就是明星脸过多，感觉强行增加笑点，中心思想很是分散。--2150
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