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."
看人物演技？很无聊也很压抑不想慢慢看那种。有过小三真的麻烦，所以还是不要行差踏错。
啥破玩儿 本来想为了河合优实看看 可能连三分钟都没撑住我就开始走神儿了
真实到想吐的程度…人到底为什么一定要用婚姻这种东西折磨自己…（音乐音响蛮好的 基本上撑住了几乎无对白的后半段 但看完还是挺困的…
四星是浮了，有感情分在。男女主角的演技與氣質、氣場都有撐不起角色的情況出現。女主角更嚴重。反倒是一眾港台老戲骨與反派、配角們更稱職。但這種題材在國內拍得少，且常拍得大砸。就算剪輯有突兀，劇情連貫與邏輯性都有瑕疵，但勸善懲惡的立意，以及溫暖人心的效果，確實有，起碼對我起作用了，所以我願意多給點鼓勵分。純論技巧的話，三星都有點虛。但這種片能在國內這環境中拍出來，拍得不崩，很不容易了。
★★★☆ 看似是一通電話引爆的人生出軌，實則早已是自欺欺人的籠中困獸，不時響起的缽鳴不僅沒能讓人內心平和，反而如催命符一般將人不斷逼入深淵，所謂修行，也終究是一場煉獄，終了，也只能是無可奈何地罷了，連歇斯底里的發洩都令人疲憊與厭倦。陳湘琪不愧是楊德昌、蔡明亮先後調教過的，不著痕跡，尤其是長鏡頭中的她，和同屆的其他四位提名者其實早已不在同一水準了。無論是《修行》還是《瀑布》，都值得讓陳以文佔一席最佳男配角提名，然而卻都沒有，遺憾。
人物故事停留在一个平面上，基本没有往前移动的痕迹，有着优秀的生活片段，却无法拼凑成整体，哪怕是出色的演技在本片里都难以成为优点。两星。
看惯了熟面孔，这一回不如好好欣赏一下四个新面孔能带来什么样的意外之喜吧。
只能用猎奇来看这部片，为何日本这个土壤可以孕育出这么多奇葩的性癖呢。出漫画居然还能有人砸钱拍真人版，饭圈是有多大！三观尽毁
大家说最精彩的地方是预告片，我看完后觉得还行，这个创意挺好的，虽然禁不起什么推敲。结尾林狗的出现让我笑出了声，唯一一个笑点了
赶上大规模点映的优惠票了，还不错，最近市场太冷了看看这种搞笑片也值回票价了
修行，在一切时，在一切处，在一切人，在一切事。
王彦霖一开口就把我逗乐了……怎么会有这种天生喜剧人，马桶兄弟那段没把我笑死哈哈哈
没抱太多期待，结果发现还可以，搞笑而不恶俗，这在国产喜剧里已经很难得了。因为盗窃遭雷劈而获得特异功能，后不堪其扰要归还赃物，又带着对女主的眷恋谎称自己有病，静物拟人化和情感错位叠加，笑点密集，结尾归还完赃物也失去异能，周遭世界和内心都再度归于平静，寓意也不错。缺点就是有些情节内在逻辑无法细究，如jc为什么又相信他；部分段落比如热气球除了唱了一首歌外没什么作用。
男主真的很禁勒 不愧是变态！！换了别的柔弱点的 早就投胎好几次了！！
剧情单薄，演员表现不错，创意十足，要是能有所延展就更好了。中秋唯一选中的电影，老少咸宜。
笑点密集，无法自控。日常如果我也这么幻想可能真被人送医院了，毕竟被雷劈得能看到静物说话的应该也找不出第二个了
最近连续看了好多中老年女性的故事，这个最压抑，有多少的婚姻是这样的名存实亡呢。爱是恒久忍耐，但如果连爱都没了只剩下忍耐的关系呢？佛亦不能渡，她最真实的一刻应该是把丈夫按在浴缸里的那一刻吧，其实接近溺亡的是她自己。#恐婚恐育片#自由无价
中年危机，婚姻危机，中年人的婚姻生活，或许这就是很多人的现在的生活，无趣，无味，却没有人愿意打破这一切，如同行尸走肉般的生活着，像是在等死，或者说等其中一个人鱼死网破。或许这就是人生到了中年必须修行的过程，这修行应该怎么做，怎么才能做好，这都是值得我们反思的
修行，，从来不是一次次生起问题，再一次次去解决问题；
只能用猎奇来看这部片，为何日本这个土壤可以孕育出这么多奇葩的性癖呢。出漫画居然还能有人砸钱拍真人版，饭圈是有多大！三观尽毁
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