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."
两万年后的结局还蛮有意思的。要是开战之前让我看这个一定觉得没劲，但经历了最近一周荒谬的一切，我觉得这个完蛋结局真的不赖。
“求你救我的灵魂脱离刀剑，救我的生命脱离犬类。Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dogs.”
有些晦涩，但表演张力极强，结尾不出意料的透着冷酷的血淋淋。
爱梨杏菜在演唱会上唱你们都会死的时候真是浪漫至极。于是当死亡向我们走来的时候，我们就能并肩向爱走去
Adam McKay完成了不可能的任务：拍了一部比《副总统》更烂、真正糊穿地心的项目。是的，它只能称为项目（或者SNL三流段子合集），因为如果把它叫作“电影”那就是对这种媒介的侮辱。唯一的贡献大概就是告诉我们Mark Rylance可能是最适合扮演拜登的人选
深柜故事拍成这样也是牛逼，太隐晦了，能津津有味看完的人更牛逼（看完长评才明白，这是个杀人的故事。Peter给Phil的多余的兽皮是他从那头因炭疽而死的牛身上割下来的，而Phil编绳子的时候伤口流血了。妈的，Peter太残忍了）
从bc拿起丝巾的那一刻我暂停了电影去翻条目，才意识到这个电影的分类原来并不简单。越往后看越不简单。从The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me到deliver my soul from sword，peter和bronco henry是同一类人吗，phil想成为bh，peter“想”成为phil，不同的“strong”不同的“恶”。我好想知道bronco的故事。
如此星光闪耀的全明星阵容，就预感着不好看，确实不是我的菜，就是个加长版的SNL，美国人自黑起来绝对第一，这种片子Netflix上看看就行了。想要隐射的讽刺的东西，只要你近几年在美国生活都能看出来。结束以后出字幕不要急着走，彩蛋是全片最精华，我笑吐了！
克制到极致的压抑情绪缓缓流淌，精雕细琢般的镜头处理，细节略有设计感，但埋的很精美。浓郁粗犷的西部氛围，在弦乐的加持下，神秘且不安。本以为重心在同性题材，却在结束后陡然发现所有的线牵起的终点是如此暗潮汹涌，以至于再回头去细细品味那些细枝末节，都多了一层独特气质，就像凝望一头困兽深邃的眼神。
很棒，以为是断背山，结果暗地里一把刀，精彩。
早说了不要看这种文艺片了，没想到又是。节奏慢到令人发指，情节跳跃严重。。最后讲了一个利用医学知识干掉叔叔的故事。。。当然了，这里面还掺杂着一些GAY的意味。可惜了，卷福这么情深，居然栽在一个小兔崽子手上。。
还想说冰血暴夫妇再聚首，然后才知道两人拍完冰血暴戏外已经结婚了（哇。
这片子是薛定谔的片，A故事意图在最后才有所确定。所以，变得非常好看。整个片子细节丰富，编个绳子编出情欲都属于基本操作。
这掌控力，这尺度拿捏，这审美段位，这人物塑造，绝妙无比，意味深长。
一部电影学院要分析镜头语言的大银幕电影，放网飞上可惜了
但凡这种脑力激荡，狂喷的电影都容易烂尾，麦凯算把电影安全着落在灾难片的心理舒适区。论收尾就是麦凯和库布里克最大的差距。
克制太明显，将故事风格平静转为压抑，从细致的人物描写和多处伏笔上就将故事拉向一个悲剧，男性的阴柔和刚烈，彼得面貌柔弱内心残酷，菲尔外表强硬内心的脆弱，到结局的死亡，孤独的灵魂逐渐阐开，却也象征一个野蛮的旧时代男子以及这个旧时代的落没。同性元素在这部电影里只是一个人物符号，暗喻压抑，也代表菲尔这个多元素所集结一身的人物的矛盾，本身就是作者所赋予的多重人性的指代，在这个远离文明社会的西部地区，寂寞和缺爱导致的刻薄暴躁，在面临隔绝恐怖的爱中，死亡也许是唯一的解脱。卷福依然很让人感慨
这是一部前两个小时以为是（断背）文艺片在看的，最后一秒发现原来是缜密谋杀片的电影。
行吧，大概是没认真看，知道有很多没看懂的点立马去看了解说，才理解了所谓文明和蛮荒的碰撞。其实能自己悟出这个点，没耐心好好去品，整个片子还是平淡的让人没有太高期待。
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