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."
渐入佳境，重拳出击。没有前两段的对比，就没有最后的重击。自始至终，男人的眼里只有美化的自己。女人，再有才华和抱负，都只是可笑的财产和工具，哪怕是一场付之生命的声讨，也只是男人的手段，别人眼里的一出好戏。从头到尾，只有羞辱，没有正义。看到结尾的那几行字，心里不禁大呼：爽！
Ridley一把年纪率先自嘲 说了两个大猪蹄子半斤八两的故事
古装片是Ridley擅长的领域，票房扑了有点可惜。主题很好，Matt Damon和Ben Affleck做这个电影是想表示他们跟当Weinstein马仔的过去一刀两断吗!Adam Driver居然是"帅气"的人设，我抄袭别人评价他那张脸的一句话，he looks like someone beat the shit out of Keanu Reeves.
有明显的女性主义色彩，分别从三个人的角度讲述故事。女性被强奸一直都是没有办法证明，法律也对女性不公。
7.4 剧情上丝毫没有令人吃惊之处，拍法更是铺张浪费，根本就不《罗生门》，最接受不了的是第二段和第三段的强奸戏几乎没有什么区别，应该从男人角度看来是两情相悦，而从女人角度看来是强奸才对，这样如此结构才有意义，在其他地方都能做到因视角不同而导致的“真相”不同，偏偏这么重要的一段戏却不这么做，真搞不懂怎么想的。
一切还原得太让人入戏了。中世纪真的太压抑了
中世纪的外衣，现代化的内核，总觉得有些怪怪的。女主“小变态”的形象太深入，时刻让人觉得要自己拔剑上场砍翻男二
极为考究的细节 从台词到表演 每个人的视角与真相的差距 男人可以输可以赢 女人没有胜利
罗生门式叙事结构，但珠玉在前，何况比起黑泽明之作，剧本和剪辑都逊色了不少，整体上显得没有太亮眼了。后来才知道 原来是一部女性主义电影。
女权主义者的控诉，女人什么时候才能站起来？
雷导这是不是照着网上的恶臭评论逐条拍出来的啊，网络果然带来了无数创作以抗争的动力。这个片子展示了在一个无知甚至谬论的世界中，人是没有基本尊严的，只有所谓的面子和拿面子维持的秩序。别看事情是14世纪的事，回望眼下，要扫除的谬论还是很多啊。我看着看着觉得这个片子再适合眼下中国不过了难道雷导来我们这里调研过？噢不，这个世界都是这个样子过去一段时间可能我们只是活在了幻想里。老美这类商业片越来越成熟了，拥抱中没有幸福，欢呼中没有喜悦，激昂中没有荣耀，当失败一方被吊起，而人潮转而向“上帝”认定的一方送上认可时，就像鲁迅说的，有的只是“吃人”二字。
罗生门题材，比起男人更让人寒心的是片中别的女性的不理解，亚当司机演英俊的花花公子让我觉得所有人都瞎了
男人们永远在要求一个完美受害者，到头来一切交给上帝判决，中世纪的强奸真相无人在乎，现在呢？罗生门式三视角拍法不新鲜但，让女主的悲剧事实重演了三次，这才是冗长的意义。
角斗士+天国王朝。向天再借500年让老雷多拍几部中世纪题材的作品吧！有趣的是17年前天国王朝中的两位主角在本片中客串了一把 而女主角又让我想起了西西里的美丽传说中的玛莲娜 生而美丽就是女人的原罪呐。“微笑和好话比赤裸裸的威胁有用多了”玛格丽特是一个具有savvy/智慧的女人；“对男人来说权力是最重要的”母亲的教诲 中世纪与现代的家庭关系有啥不同？至少婆媳关系上看不出东西方有多大差异。本的台词太粗鄙 当看一部fuck不离口的中世纪题材作品总会有违和感。就全片来看，如果套用水浒传，这不就是林冲手刃陆谦的剧本吗，这一点东西是一致的：打我老婆和财产的主意就拿命来偿。从女性的角度能解读更多，但区区短评就不展开了。
同一件事的三个版本，老雷宝刀未老，观影过程中十分反感马特呆萌，后来想，他是不是演的太好的原因，但明明司机和女主更抢戏呀，甚至阿本也精彩过他。每个人都有自己的困境，两个男人的“相爱相杀”，背后的女人才是真正的牺牲者。战争，婚姻，友情，皆被利益这双无形的手操控着。
很典型的冲奥电影，而且是奥斯卡一定会获奖的那类片子，各种政治正确。甚至让我这样一个对「女权」没什么好感的人都会不禁感叹，「男人们都是一种自大和自恋的生物」。相比较最后的决斗，法庭责问那场戏才是影片真正的高潮部分，各种来自「男权」的责难与羞辱，威胁与讽刺如排山倒海般的袭来，拳拳到肉的施加到一个女性的受害者身上，那种体验感真的让人难以消逝。而最后的决斗，也都是各怀目的的释放而已，又有谁真的会在意这个可怜的女人呢？在男人的斗争中，女人永远只是牺牲品而已。雷爵爷真的很厉害，他会用这种三段式的叙事方式把剧情走向逐渐推向高潮，看过之后你就会明白，两段男性视角的呈现完全是为了女性视角的惊艳亮相做的铺垫而已。朱迪科默奉献了几近完美的演技，电影无论从卡司到剧本，从结构到制作都堪称后疫情时代的天花板。四星稳稳。
4.吵什么女权的真的太恶心了，总说歧视女性，你拿着中世纪的十万八千里外的改编故事硬要套在整体男性身上，我也不知道自己曾做错过什么，走到哪都要被歧视，被鞭笞一番，好似我是个强奸犯，再不济也是个帮凶，即使我像男主一样上场厮杀，为女性呐喊，我也只是个为了满足自己高尚价值观的自我满足感的伪君子。
向来不怎么喜欢古装电影，但雷德利斯科特执导的几部，我评分都很高，如《角斗士》和《天国王朝》等。从强大的卡司，到摄影、配乐，乃至服装、道具，无一不是精雕细琢，叹为观止。
主题先行的罗生门 但拍得规整大气 演员到位 好看！
这种多重视点的片子，总是会有些奇怪的笑点，还挺好玩的。另外本片在制作上还是很强的，很有实感
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