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."
韩国人，有点东西。人类总习惯性设定太多对立，永远在争执孰是孰非，而事实上对真理和世间大义的追求，无论今昔俗洋往往殊途同归。翻译不错，电影更好。
拍得不错，但我真希望是我们中国人拍出来的啊。
虽是古装，却很现代。李濬益真的每每能选到一个特别好的人物，找到一个特别好的切入点和角度，《兹山鱼谱》自不例外。以东西之争切入，继而来到社会阶层问题，最后殊途同归地来到政治结构的批判和对人人生来平等的终极诉求，结构之清晰、内容之完整、逻辑之严谨令人击节。步子跨太大了就扯着裆，丁若铨的虚无与失败，也无疑昭示一种圣贤的必然结局，恰如孔子或耶稣，兹山鱼谱或许就是他的论语抑或圣经吧。
如果你也喜欢苏轼…
好遗憾啊，明明是很有潜力的题材，故事中有太多东西让我心软，前半部分看起来很“高级”，却被庸俗的音乐、闪回和蓝色露出了马脚，越到后面越仓促，可以说是持续让人失望。
挺久前看的啦，当时忘记写了，也就一直耽搁了下来。很优秀的片子，李濬益在商业和艺术上达成了相当好的平衡。片子有起伏，有笑点，有冲突，结尾的自宫冲击巨大；又有儒家，有宗教，有官场，用黑白拍出天地壮阔。美中不足的是官场的内容特别像把现代的韩国政治片塞回古代的框架，当然也可以说，千百年过去，权力的黑暗从未变化。
特别喜欢吃鱼的部分。黑白片确实有水墨调，工整但不匠气。丁若铨不侍君王，不奉天主，无论东西，只吸纳道义和学识，士大夫所论出世与入世，放到他师徒二人身上，出身不同导致分道扬镳，节气相近才有殊途同归。最后讲“活成飞升之鹤虽不坏，但即便满身泥泞，也可像兹山一样，外表黯淡却生机勃勃” 基本也是出淤泥而不染，“心中万不可蒙尘”。
前半部几乎可以作为「苏轼儋州流放记」代餐，几乎平替！后半部男猪带领男二真潜心考察研究海岛生物百科，这倒像是「如果流放到儋州的人从苏轼换成苏颂会怎样」的AU了【然而转念一想，苏颂这样的大科学家根本不会被流放呀，人家正大光明拿着郭嘉经费在朝廷做天文仪器呀！】其实男猪虽然口口声声反对朱子性理学，但他在逆境中坚持「格物致知」倒也挺得朱子真传的。只不过看不过去的是，济世的理念和预设的崇高感似乎仅能在长幼男人身上传帮带，男人再怎么梦想「天下无王，不分贵贱」，他永远不会把平等的目光从广袤的宇宙苍生收回来，投到眼前的老婆女儿身上。东亚三国反儒反皇权的电影里女性是失声的，你反个XX
一个真正伟大的人即使被扔到地球的角落里也会有所作为，太感动了。
除了亦师亦友这条线外，更是一部历史政治片。切入视角非常棒，不但描写了体制，阶级，还有友谊，学习的目的，人的选择。
202105做好我们的选择。做一些微不足道的小事，自己拯救自己，就像我看园子写东西一样，未来或许有用也未可知。
这就是我理想中的东方古典士大夫电影啊，看完只想觉得胸怀激荡浩气长存。
喜欢这个题材了，国产电影对儒家文化传统修身齐家治国平天下的理解和表现，大多过于对苦难大众符号的俯视和关怀，耿耿于为仕以身报国救国的宏愿，比如海瑞，屈原，而真正对于知识分子于毫末草芥之间的格物精神，几无涉猎，且更无将此自觉升华至儒家人格理想完善的修行，比如毕升，鲁班，李时珍，徐霞客，我们这样的题材并不少，大多也就是在工匠精神上雕琢一番。将为官报国还是于微末间的点滴格物精进并列讨论，且实现儒家理想的平和达观高度的，此电影难能可贵。相比中国古代官场的包罗万象藏污纳垢，韩国小朝廷只能算是个微型景观。大概也惟其如此，管中窥豹，更有透视清晰。期待国产电影也能传统文化典型人格，有能有更高屋建瓴，更见微知著的知识分子观察，思考，精研，而不止停留在符号化人物的大而无当，居高临下的空洞煽情，华丽美术后的虚弱感。
论世事 只求和而不同 奈何生民立命 人情世故 难以兼得 做到了文艺主流综合 但缺点可能也是两边都走不到极致 既然要风格可能情绪更克制收一些会更有调性一些 吟诗作对后即向对方解释确实照顾观众但有失尊重 希望可以预设部分观者认同观念碰撞和许多基本认知上的理性 为了更推情绪设置的剧本桥段还是煽得狠了非常韩国 为什么我很喜欢却说了一堆缺点 内容题材太好了最先夸得 虽然认为东方美学不一定非得吟诗出来 但诗意美的氛围感给到了 薛景求已晋升神级演员行列
通篇的黑白到最后光彩重现，满身污泥的黑山露出了兹山的真面目。朝鲜古有丁若铨，我们古有苏东坡，他们拍出了《兹山鱼谱》，那我们呢？！
在能回想起来的近一年时间以来，触动最为深刻的电影。虽然对李朝几乎完全没有了解，但东亚的历史何其相似，加上故事也讲得很清晰，再者最近正听到明代部分的政治文化史……老夫子急流勇退去格鱼，放弃打鱼的贱民还要往哪里去呢
千百年来，人性不曾改，政治也就不曾改，一代一代只是重复不是前进。自我与时代的对抗，虽注定失败，但却无比闪亮。因此，结尾才让人如此动容。要说，这部如诗如画浪漫理想主义作品也有缺点，即对于出世入世的讨论过于追求戏剧化。幸好，两位优秀的男演员撑住了两个人物。
想到了苏轼李白杜甫王安石辛弃疾等等等等，如今自己也在半个体制内混感受更加细微了，不如也做乌贼吧回到大海去。
一个叛逆士大夫和底层读书人的交汇，前者看出儒学之漏，后者痴于儒学之好，师徒异路，但终究是儒学败坏的国家只能从西学获取新的滋养。电影拍的悲而喜，学问探讨很多，情感描绘简略，结尾仓促，深思并不多，还是韩影以情取胜的那一套，可惜。
东亚人的电影。水中山，若隐若现，那是东方人的精神之地，随着世界浮沉。
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