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."
大本还是适合稍微壮一点的状态和样子，在这里过于瘦，甚至脱相了…出演这样的一部片子估计也是给乔治克鲁尼的人情吧。整体来说，隔靴搔痒，想有表达，可惜效果不佳。
我看懂了，又好像没看懂，很多电影的杂糅，估计是要再看两边才能捋顺深层逻辑，等我捋顺了再来吧
感觉就是各种电影大乱炖，恐怖游轮+彗星来的那一夜。作为网络电影，剧情设计上，虽然细究起来还是有bug，但总体来说还不错，演员演技和台词设计上还是有很大的进步空间。3.5星，好评鼓励一下。
George Clooney还是快点出来演戏吧，拍戏这件事你都可以和大本请教请教了。
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其实有些地方没有怎么看懂，比如奈绪怀孕明明是第一胎，为什么已经有了那么多婴儿的衣服在洗晒，比如少年跳海自杀的那段几乎完全没有身亡的表现，只是通过后来同伴的转述来表达，但依然不影响片子拍得很好，一度以为三个少年是东出昌大和好友和老婆的童年，片程过半才发生交集，但是互相的镜像毫无疑问。东出昌大演得真是好，完全演出了一个抑郁症患者的表象与内心，相对而言，奈绪表现差强，尤其最后一段脸部表情表现不够。整体而言，算是一部在豆瓣被低估的影片吧？
好无聊一片子，感觉不到主角的成长，对生活的刻画很潦草，连说教也没说出几个金句。
不难看，东出昌大演得不错，喜欢跟少年一块跑步那段：我最近都没有练篮球；我最近也没有工作。跑步好像还蛮治愈的？
全篇最大的彩蛋就在于全篇都是对叔叔的回忆录！
但是也有自己的要求
（再一次看东出昌大的时候代入了D……）
不错不错不错不错，真的很有意思
3.失恋……九次。
属于国产小成本电影对悬念类型的一次开拓性尝试。人物塑造上上很中国化，情节设计上环环相扣，虽有一些逻辑上的漏洞，但细节缺失属于国产电影的通病，因此不想因此指责导演或制片方。最后，真心希望我国能在电影审查上能够再宽松一些，给我们的电影工作者营造一个自由度更高的发挥空间，
大本的fun uncle居然演出难得魅力熟男dilf感，乔治克鲁尼执导的这部基本就是怀旧滤镜美国白男版《好爸爸坏爸爸》卡司都是熟人，马天尼演渣爹，《回到未来》博士演外公，主角泰谢里丹无功无过，童年版很灵气。
相当寡淡的人物传记片，浮皮潦草，草根阶层的艰难沉重人生并非流水账能hold住的啊！找克鲁尼这种old money来导真的不合适。daddy issue没讲清楚，self value不知何处，uncle cure走马观花，哪个都没闹明白，结尾转折更是莫名其妙，平民/贫民的成功就靠一句话带过，也是忒傲慢了。原著为啥这么畅销？好奇了，找来看看。小JR可爱爆炸。豆瓣演员表也太不齐了，小jr演员Daniel Ranieri，jr黑人女友Briana Middleton
两星半吧，剧本有点糙，主角的心理变化走向本应是决定整部电影的主题的，差那么一口气没拔起来。设定被玩烂了没玩出新花样，整体平平无奇，有彗星在前，又不如彗星的节奏和紧张感。人性在这种情境下居然还这么善良（冷静）？听到儿子还活着的时候，立刻开枪杀了她不是更符合那种经历诡异事件后心理变化吗？
3.5吧 拍出来没那么科幻也没那么悬疑 有些情节设置的很怪
现在看东出昌大的电影会觉得有点奇怪，虽然这部他演得还不错。逃离主流社会的男主，虽然有可爱的妻子和孕育中的孩子，抑郁症还是无法好转，只有在不停的奔跑中谋求平和。被孤立的转校生，虽然有姐弟俩愿意和他一起玩，愿意教他游泳，但他心中一直无法平静。自杀未遂的男主虽然最后失去了妻儿，但他还能感受脚踩草地放肆狂奔的快乐。跳下岩石的转校生悄无声息地失去了生命，内心从此不再受到困扰。无论是哪种选择，都可以理解。只不过，留下希望的那种，就留下了快乐的可能。
算了 以後有東出出演的本子都放棄吧 看到他的臉就立刻出戲 果咩
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