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."
在墙外世界这是metoo最后的决斗，墙内我们仍然活在14世纪。
当然肯定没罗生门在视听上开创意义大，肯定也没角斗士或者天国王朝那么宏大，很多视听也很旧，但是这种雷德利斯科特永远都知道怎么抓人，永远忘不了在上影节看末路狂花现场有多嗨，谁能想象这片子在大银幕放会怎么样
对女权和MeToo的映射简直呼之欲出，除了有点过于工整以外别的都挺好。此外服化道及美术都是老雷一贯的高水平。
这个电影告诉我们，根本就不存在什么“客观”，有三种角度就有三种表述。另外中世纪女性跨越时空般拥有现代女性独立意识，且非常坚定，如此设定的古装片总让人觉得出戏。
在电影院看的。一个故事讲三遍。两个当红炸子鸡：朱迪科默，亚当德赖弗。两个老腊肉：马特达蒙，本阿弗莱克。
兩個半小時不覺得沈悶，縱使故事講了三次，再看第三個故事的時候還是聚精會神。女性真的是最堅強的存在，無論如何都被看低和拿來作為籌碼，反抗需要莫大的勇氣。女主長髮好美，最近真的很常見Adam Driver。
在电影院看的。一个故事讲三遍。两个当红炸子鸡：朱迪科默，亚当德赖弗。两个老腊肉：马特达蒙，本阿弗莱克。
相比于罗生门较为均衡的话语分配，老雷这次对于特定一方太过偏袒。
这样一个故事的现实意义已经明显到无以复加的地步了。但它最大的软肋在于，这么一个三段式的罗生门故事，结构太生硬太呆板了，而过于冗长的叙事节奏更是雪上加霜。基本上从中段起，观众就能早早地预判到这个故事的后续发展，那就毫无惊喜可言了。
今年最佳，特别是在这个两性议题高涨的当下，又镀上一层特别的含义。处处是隐喻，处处是真实，回味无穷。
一看就不是那种蹭metoo，恰烂钱的片子。服化道投资巨大，中世纪味道拉满，而故事核心居然是现代化的女权视角压箱底，可以可以。有些镜头和对白会留下很深印象。看完又把《十字军之王3》下了回来，游戏瘾犯了。
女性是什么呢？是财产、生产工具，和男性满足自我幻想的玩偶。赢了这场可笑的决斗又如何，不过仍然是枚死气沉沉的配饰和勋章，只是换了种象征意义罢了。可悲的是这不仅是中世纪的故事，也是此刻当下正在发生的故事。我愿意把最佳改编剧本给nicole holofcener，为她在第三幕补齐女性视角，也为我们不再经受这种命运。
中世纪法国的女人日子太悲惨了，被强暴不会怀孕还有科学依据，这也不奇怪法国婚外情盛行了
兩個半小時不覺得沈悶，縱使故事講了三次，再看第三個故事的時候還是聚精會神。女性真的是最堅強的存在，無論如何都被看低和拿來作為籌碼，反抗需要莫大的勇氣。女主長髮好美，最近真的很常見Adam Driver。
哪怕不用罗生门就战争场面的一瞥都好看得要命，last duel一幕的紧张感劈头盖脸。本爹的4P床戏据说是自己加上去的我真的要笑死。当然最搞笑的难道不是司机插足本达蒙吗。雷爷不比你我都懂。这个戏每个人的表演都很耐品。朱迪科默最后的那个look好像奥菲利亚再世美美美。
女人感受到愉悦才会怀孕，所以强暴肯定不会导致怀孕，这么荒谬混蛋的逻辑居然还曾被当成科学真理？果然是野蛮蒙昧的中世纪！两个男人一个自以为对妻子关爱体贴，一个到死都认定是两情相悦，真让人无fu*ck说。有人说三个视角的叙述没什么区别也无必要，其实种种细节差异非常明显啊，比如女主跑上楼梯时是自己脱掉鞋还是慌乱甩脱，从中完全可以看出不同人物的不同感受和观点。雷大导拍得非常沉稳，最后的决斗戏又让人无比揪心。朱迪古装美翻了，大本在本片中比以前有气质很多。
让我们先从勇敢发声开始！Say No！
故事比想象的简单，但最后决斗戏拍得太好了啊我的天。科莫妹子绝了
这故事就是很像《无明逆流》，但我还是觉得它目的性太强了。既然你想玩儿罗生门那种叙述诡计，凭什么要把玛格丽特的视角强行认定为「真相」呢？这样就会让我怀疑你是在刻意制造性别对立。另外我的一个小私心，啾迪好美，如果这两个男人最后是同归于尽的话，解放女性的同时顺便再嘲讽一下宗教，多好。
三段式，罗生门，三个视角，并不是简单的对比或者补充，同一场景拍出的三条总有细微的差别，对白故意搅乱实情，在一些疙瘩尚未解开的谜团之中，两个男人的决斗开始了，凶狠残暴心弦紧绷，胜利之后的男女主人公已经把真相写在了脸上。
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