剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 云梅雪 5小时前 :

    Good slasher with attitude. A24 approved. 摄影(特别是开场镜头)、配乐(几处特倩女幽魂)都不错,氛围更是一流,可能是厄运遗传以来令人印象最深的。

  • 壤驷博裕 3小时前 :

    拍一部有剧情的恐怖片就像拍一部有剧情的X片。

  • 弘辰 3小时前 :

    太一般…老年人招谁惹谁了 被导演给拍成嫉妒 自怨自艾 性爱成瘾的形象…

  • 娄雅寒 9小时前 :

    演技:★

  • 上官雅可 6小时前 :

    身强力壮的帅哥美女们竟被一对步履蹒跚,行将就木的老夫妻给灭了。

  • 卫青竹 3小时前 :

    血浆,嫉妒,性爱录影带。剧情有点单薄,七个人相继死得那么快,令人怀疑是编剧和导演催着他们去投胎。后面有剧透,不想看可以到此为止了。剧透的隔离带|镜头调度上有几个桥段值得玩味,点睛之笔有两处:一处是六个人晚上在屋子里老黑弹吉他,梦露女唱歌的那段;一处是导演女朋友被两位成人女性所感染,顶着男朋友的反对最后还是穿着sunday内衣和老黑拍的那段小电影和她映射在镜头中的倒影。

  • 卫哲韬 6小时前 :

    画面质感像80年代,剧情一般,血浆也不多,感觉欧美血浆片好多年没什么精品了

  • 季阳华 7小时前 :

    恐怖的不是两个老家伙杀人,恐怖的是杀人之前年轻人的寻欢作乐和老人坟墓一般的生活来回切换!一样的背景音乐,两种强烈的情绪反差,快要有阴影了……

  • 危学名 8小时前 :

    A24出品,血浆片爱好者怪才导演缇·威斯特执导,《X》融合了个性与反叛,角色在与刻板印象对抗的同时,又迫不得已接受了身处恐怖片的命运,这便是那个时代下追逐美国梦的夸张描绘。

  • 子辰 6小时前 :

    「赋予行为以动机」恐怕是新世纪恐怖片始终贯彻的一个基本点,而本片在怀旧滤镜之外,试图挖掘出「垮掉的一代」的心灵根源,以及更大的人类共情——「生命的激情」,这样的情感的确是会变异成妖的。

  • 富擎苍 0小时前 :

    摄影构图和剪辑是最大优点,插帧式的跳剪大部分是有信息量的,结局牧师放出女主画像震撼力十足,不过不太明白导演想表达什么。

  • 习芳芳 7小时前 :

    切入点倒是挺独特的,不灭的嫉妒与溺爱。故事的叙述有点儿缺重点,太流水账了。

  • 世凌兰 2小时前 :

    为什么我记得我想看这个电影的时候,评分是7点多!!看完发现它才5分!

  • 希静枫 9小时前 :

    老人造型太糟糕了。不过拍得还算很讲究的,最后碾压老妇加一星。

  • 党凌春 1小时前 :

    老头老太太欲求不满,大开杀戒,最后被反杀,前面墨迹了一个小时,开两倍速都嫌慢,都是俗套,浪费时间,可以不看

  • 姬慧心 2小时前 :

    许久不见的坦荡剥削片,穿梭于无数70年代references之间(最主要的是霍珀在这段时期拍摄的《德州电锯杀人狂》与《活活生吞》),致力于在可预知的情节框架中制造出人意料的惊奇时刻,剧本、剪辑的节奏也都还是原汁原味的缇·威斯特。旗帜鲜明地反对A24 elevated horror那套arthouse cliché,透着一股点到为止的幽默、悲情和自恋。

  • 奉月朗 5小时前 :

    从表演和镜头语言到插曲全都俗不可耐,结果end credit一出看到执行制片有某Levinson,不好意思是我没搞清楚状况才会想要看这片的

  • 兰茂典 1小时前 :

    许久不见的坦荡剥削片,穿梭于无数70年代references之间(最主要的是霍珀在这段时期拍摄的《德州电锯杀人狂》与《活活生吞》),致力于在可预知的情节框架中制造出人意料的惊奇时刻,剧本、剪辑的节奏也都还是原汁原味的缇·威斯特。旗帜鲜明地反对A24 elevated horror那套arthouse cliché,透着一股点到为止的幽默、悲情和自恋。

  • 折嘉丽 2小时前 :

    可以去看下Weeknd的MV ,貌似一个主题

  • 大访冬 9小时前 :

    挺有想法的影片

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