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."
全片愣是没出现一个鬼，但是却比鬼片恐怖一百倍。因为至少你知道鬼是假的，并不存在，但是男人真的就在你身边。试问谁看了不恐男？加兰是真的稳，借用“千人一面”的意象展现心理惊悚，且每个人物都象征着一层对于女性的加害（裸男-暴露/房东-暴力/孩子-侮辱/牧师-规训/警察-漠视），震撼加倍。摄影音效俱佳，对色彩的使用也尽可能推动了叙事，大片的绿色，新生的绿，诡异的绿；记忆中的囚室，橙黄色；还有别墅墙壁的暗红色，代表危机四伏。蒲公英的种子随风飘散，同男性繁衍后代类比，没有女性，男性的繁衍就成了套娃式的自我复制，只有生没有育，只有劣性叠加，没有良性筛选。总之，千言万语还是汇成那句话：不要靠近男人，会变得不幸。
罗伊德有点太神经质了，太典型了特别是长篇大论的时候看得我犯困，无人机运镜我都挺喜欢的，跟前老板侄女的相处有拍出深度让剧情不至于太无聊和唐突，动作戏拍出了真诚不是敷衍的那种，虽然配的bgm挺敷衍的错失了为动作戏锦上添花的机会
内容上看得出：
红奥迪性能真好 导演是满足自己四处旅游的心吧 高冷男几个搞笑很有意思啊 身材真好 布拉格开战很爽 男二这破费的不计成本啊
滿分💯。太有創意、也太有深意。色彩、運鏡都可圈可點。最後的高潮部分考驗每個人の感官。從純藝術的角度說：此片風格堪稱驚為天人。
把千男一面进行了极富想象力的视觉呈现。它并不会利用惯常的恐怖桥段去渲染气氛，单纯复现女性会遭遇的一切就已经足够恐怖，男性极度自我所带来的压迫恶意也已足够骇人。结尾足够猛。
that ken doll 哈哈 好像还致敬了哈利波特与火焰杯？？总之不太好看
A24不阴阳怪气后，以清新脱俗后再来一剂猛药，还是抓住了特立独行的流量密码，全片不意外隐喻丛生，将女性的身心恐惧和不安具象化与符号化，全面展现男权生态里的凝视和勒索，大抵从婚姻，宗教，性和生育上描写了对女性的全面压榨，清幽雅致的郊外森林，却布满隐秘暗涌的惊魂动机，精致安逸的摄影画面与诡谲吟唱的音效配乐常常形成矛盾的对立面，后半段这种怪奇的氛围被逐一打破，直白血腥的场面接踵而至，别开生面的cult奇景轮番上演，刀片分裂手臂，男性连环畸形生殖场面，不间断摧残与折磨女主和观众，一种全方位堕入自责和痛苦的深渊境地，还总以爱为借口，绑架着精神领域里的群魔乱舞，逃离和规避终究不是久计，唯有痛彻反击才能达成创伤和新生的疗愈，所以手握斧头砍向一切冠冕堂皇，是女主自我保护与挣脱束缚的第一步。★★★☆
别看！快跑！槽多无口！花了两亿结果找不到个像样的动作指导，跟搞笑一样
最后十分钟，女主拿着斧子看着套娃，心想，当女人好难，你们男人到底有完没完。
这剧情我也是醉了，反派完全是作死啊，除了场面真没别的事情了
有颜有演技有作品的一众好班底，拍了部毫无精彩的类型片，从开始监狱捞人培训新锐杀手，到后面发现顶头上司是坏boss，超可爱小罗莉也让这个6号不太冷……满满都是动作商业片玩剩的套路。唯一能坚持到底的因素是加特技的世界各地美景，打得蛮爽～还一直打一直爽～从泰国曼谷到阿塞拜疆巴库、冰岛的雷克雅未克……想炸哪里就随CIA开心，小灰机说飞滴。
高司令很帅，安娜很美，美队很逗b，大概也就这样了
男权社会里的女性会做什么样的噩梦？一看便知
本片的象征和隐喻的意味很浓，我的理解就是其实讲的是男性对女性的漠视，误解，歧视和伤害等等，光是无声的凝视就足以让她们惊恐。
跟踪狂、暴露癖、强奸犯、gas lighting、toxic masculinity、道貌岸然的男人以善意为借口压榨恐吓女性，也许男性观众看了要啧啧称奇，但这只是一个半小时的对女性日常生活的展现，男权社会日常对女性的身心压迫罢了，男人们厌女又渴望女人的身体，女主聪明、强大、独立又如何，依然被折磨被威胁，教女人如何不恐男人？
最后一幕男人套男人真的挑战观感极限了…绝对可以名留青史。就是难为男主了，一个人演这么多角色。
音乐画面构想演员都很喜欢。世世代代，同一个可怜又可怕的种类，生生不息，每一个人其实都背负着两个共同体的矛盾。爱这个命题的最终出现介于斧头和疲惫的眼神之间。圣坛和裂手的意象表现的很充分了。
谁能想到有生之年还能再次看到JOI和K搭档，爷青回了
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