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."
感觉每天要给自己加油打气一百次，这就是目前我能想到的办法
整体很差。好在一些段落。有蛇及最后的部分。魏如萱极差。
按照钟孟宏的标准而言，内容有点水，没有瀑布那么凶猛。
题材锐度没有前几部那么高，人物刻画也没有那么戏剧性，甚至整体看着略有些温吞。可看下来导演塑造的焦虑与不安却那么真实，疫情时代下每个人都能在他们身上找到自己的影子，可到头来真的就只是因为疫情把我们变成这样的吗？
恭喜DC，狠狠扳回一城。
时效性的故事挺有意思 疫情的降临（fall）给大多数人的物质世界带来了降级 也冲刷了每个人的精神与心灵
疫年誕生的作品，非常'匠氣'，感覺會是評價兩極的電影… 從'居家隔離'開始切入…整體還算維持了'鍾孟宏出品'的技術水準(攝影/燈光/聲音設計…)… 賈靜雯x王淨的表演也滿紮實的… 劇本層面真的就'見仁見智'了(有挺多滿明顯的隱喻和象徵，但也被詬病'畸視'/'奇觀化'母女情…)… 整體的調性感覺就是一部用'閱歷'和'經驗'支撐起來的片子… (年輕人還真拍不出這樣的文本…) 用陳以文的台詞來說 類似是'每個人都有不堪的過去，只是程度不同而已…未來誰都說不準…'… PS, 對於思覺失調發病過程和身心病徵的呈現，確實滿'寫實'的，感覺主創和演員都有做過功課… 如果是身心病的患者/家屬，觀影過程中滿多戳心的'淚點'… 彷彿就是'紀錄片'一樣😭 (王淨開門驅趕'衛兵'那段, 捉蛇那段 都莫名淚目了…)
“答应我，不要问我你好吗，我会努力地好起来……”
很难看。每个人讲台词都木木的，贾静雯一个表情演完全片，人物之间都隔层纱，感受不到任何感情的联结。摄影很美
继史上最文艺小丑后，史上最文艺的蝙蝠侠来了。DC大魄力的让旗下最大IP重启为悬疑罪案片，戴上警徽的蝙蝠侠不再飞天遁地挥洒钞能力，而是勤勤恳恳如老黄牛般破案追凶。罗伯特·帕丁森身家万亿还落魄忧郁的诗人气质太迷了，我一度以为他是刚走出塔可夫斯基的“潜行者”片场...（喂，笑一个好吗？）
不要问“你还好吗”，母亲会努力好起来。不用想“你怎么样”，女儿也会努力爬上岸。
各種生活細節呈現得很細緻。如果不是太刻意的命題式結尾，本是值五星的作品。
再来谈谈有点遗憾的地方：和TDK的开战时刻比，罗蝠布鲁斯并未探讨哥谭值得被拯救，并且质疑能否拯救哥谭，也没有解释为什么复仇是愚蠢这个不杀原则
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强撑看完。美国人对贪腐的想象力实在太贫瘠了。检察官在夜场里居然要主动搭讪妹子，这不是一个眼神的事吗。还有一个月一万的黑钱收入，咱这儿给领导司机买茶叶的钱都不够吧。
3.5。结尾跟蓝白红之《红》一摸一样，但整个故事又有点像《蓝》，二月十四看也恰如其分，贾静雯这种病理比较难拍，这可能也是很多观众代入不进去的原因，我也挺难忍受的，好在小静这个角色十分完美，在加上BGM实在是太好听，后面的重启人生沉稳扎实，我感觉到了一种非常踏实的欣慰感，钟孟宏电影的情感浓度，人物状态都没得说，他最大的毛病就是对话台词效率太低，比如房间里有蛇，我就知道一定有蛇，还有就是听见嗡嗡声，我就知道一定是瀑布，作为观众老这么抢答式的预判成功是很崩溃的，他改掉这个我是非常期待他以后的作品。
当一切如瀑布倾泻而下，是一代代坚韧的女性让生命得以继续流淌。
2.5- 前半段的贾静雯和女儿的反转拍得超级难看，钟孟宏有点黔驴技穷了。看得我还以为钟孟宏想拍类似《圣鹿之死》的台湾中产阶级精神崩溃的心理现实惊悚片，但一想没那么简单，果然逃不掉回到拍温情的生活故事。剧本其实挺不接地气的。跟上部《普照》差了一大截。
依然喜欢钟孟宏镜头里人物情绪的抽丝剥茧，那种冷静克制，让它故事里畸态的情感更加真实露骨。（说个题外话，台湾已经落后带连个手机的健康码行程码都搞不出来吗？）
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