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."
普普通通。很常见的两个因为家庭有心理阴影的人相遇，也很常见的两个无处可去的人在一起，最后决定一起流浪。
结果还是把松坂桃李拍成了一个恋童癖，有点失败
以为有多大的悬念，结果还真就是平平无奇的萝莉控。村长演技加分，丝丝演技扣分。
看到很多人因为李相日一向的拖垮而给低分，我还是决定给4星，谢谢松坂桃李和すず的演绎，以及全片的镜头和色彩我非常喜欢，无声胜有声。想看这部片子完全因为美彼的原著写得太好了，而预告片又十分好看，决定在补小说之前看一遍电影，然后最后李相日又拖垮了，其实就电影来讲不揭开谜底也可以的，另外前后反复穿插太多了也是没必要。途中那种非常teenager holiday的American pop就不必了，大幅的钢琴旋律以及风声雨声就够了。（我愣是没听出来哪里插入了白日）（最后要补充一句，很久以前就觉得横浜流星适合演暴力倾向角色，真的挺合适的哦。但是舞台挨拶的时候化妆师把他的睫毛都夹到天上去了，实在是让人很出戏）
原来流星和丝丝已经可以演这种床戏了 甚至可以演家暴戏了🚬子役和丝丝真的蛮像欸 两个人演得都很不错 但是真的是好惨的一个故事啊 所以我永远搞不懂霓虹金 为什么不能解释呢 虽然可能也解释不清楚 桃李这个人设真的好惨 最后脱衣服真的是震to the撼 什么时候能演点不那么惨的人呢😢
时长编排太磨叽了，要是先看评论区的话我估计都不会去看了。
这能力有点变态了，东方凤凰琴吗，还是喜欢第一部动作戏的飒爽感，起码还是人类的打斗
剧情干巴，拖沓，打戏越发像超级赛亚人，剧中二硕就耍了个帅啥也没干。
观感属于一直保持期待中但逐渐产生了疲倦;爽文不需要这么多冗长的铺垫;这部女主的表演真是省心省力;下一部双剑合璧希望搞爽点
三个在童年遭遇不幸，永远也长不大的孩子。擦番茄酱的动作和眼神，文确实@恋@童，只是还没进行下一步。（演更纱的小朋友估计不用到成年就能拿影后了）
两个半小时，犹犹豫豫、拖拖拉拉，角色单薄暧昧。丝丝有突破但还欠点火候，眼波流动还是很灵！其他两位，就脸谱化瞪眼睛。
我就是低俗的人类 结尾的李钟硕发型狠狠让我（扭曲）（狂喜）（原地蠕动）
全程很悲很丧 略慢略冗长 广濑铃有颜有艺 非常不错。结尾部分还是有些高能无法想象的
还是超能力崇拜作祟，以及，还是很厌恶用普通人给超能力者“觉醒”做养料的桥段
姐姐找妹妹的故事，比起第一部来说狗尾多了，节奏拖沓不说，一大堆工具人，是出场为了被花样杀死的?眼神杀人的超能力，跟超人也差不多啦。一堆韩国人硬凹中文，听着鸡皮疙瘩起，真没必要。
冗长拖沓 是看到一半不小心按了暂停 过了好一会儿才发现的程度
估计故事重构了，和第一部一些设定和结尾接不上，不过那对普通人姐弟全死了是什么呀。
有一种没有才华的导演很努力地在拍电影的感觉，反正除女主以外的全部角色统统标签化就可以了。松坂桃李，演树懒是真轻松呀。
期待值太高反而觉得比较一般，不过也是最近看过的“日影”里，最“日影”的一部了。骨子里还是两个看不见未来的人，携手借着月亮的光辉，在这个世间流浪。不过我很好奇，这么让人投入其中的内核，为何就拍得如此零碎，感情也在反复挣扎里找不到方向。
两颗星给有几组镜头确实拍的很有感觉，这是什么鬼故事，一群神经病的人设，男女主是没长嘴巴吗？为了流星看的，居然把大尺度贡献给这么个角色难怪掉粉😭。女主是很舒服的那种漂亮，可惜了演员。真tm无语😓。
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