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:

  • 贸雨安 2小时前 :

    全程无泪点平平无奇的青春片,可能是我不懂欣赏

  • 梓凡 8小时前 :

    看过剧版之后电影版实在拍得太差了

  • 碧鲁白莲 6小时前 :

    先说,我真的很爱舞台版,但是电影版真的很烂,节奏不对,刻板印象的社恐表现?真的很迷惑,想给两星的,多了一星还是因为我真的爱舞台版和新加的一首歌,虽然也很稀碎,那四首歌为啥删阿!感觉全片的人物就只剩下埃文了,是没错埃文是主角,但不意味着全片都围绕着主角转

  • 祁迎彤 2小时前 :

    很抓人的题材

  • 鲜于兴发 7小时前 :

    4.结尾sam smith献唱YWBF爱惨了

  • 桂萱 2小时前 :

    电影问题实在有点多,甚至让我去怀疑原剧本身是否是一个好的故事,唯一能感动能称赞的只有音乐了,新加的几首歌也很好听特别是Connor那首a little closer,但是几首父母辈的歌,disappear全都删了就让所有除Evan以外的角色仿佛都变成像工具人一样扁平,最起码的用音乐和歌词推动剧情都做的很差。还有选角,在我这Ben是最好的Evan,但是他真的不适合演高中生了!尤其是这个造型简直high school stalker既视感,太出戏了,再加上导演没有找到音乐剧和电影之间的平衡,大量镜头特写显得更加诡异。

  • 针浩广 5小时前 :

    4.结尾sam smith献唱YWBF爱惨了

  • 驰良 5小时前 :

    em...Ben Platt的脸怎么看起来像是填充了啥...背景不能改改吗?一点都不高中生 而且感觉舞台版的表演对他影响太大了 表情收不住

  • 翰良 6小时前 :

    对DEH的情怀是因为大学音乐剧班做了中文版,同我们照明班合作一起做一场演出。当时我们班没有人看过这部大热的获奖作品,但是经过无数遍排练,到最后正式演出,我的眼泪一直在打转。几年过去了,泪点和年龄成反比例发展,看完电影眼泪啪叽啪叽掉。requiem和他与老妈坦白这两段哭的最狠。但其实我挺同意其他瓣友说的:这种哭泣更多是因为音乐旋律带来的纯生理反应(所以音乐真的很神奇,基本上全程能跟着唱下来),而非真的是因为剧情。特别是看完电影版,我强烈感受到这部剧真的全员恶人。谁也别赖谁,相互利用完最后还是让eh当了替罪羊而已。这种所谓“喜剧”外表的“误会”真的是讽刺的要命…

  • 骆夜梅 3小时前 :

    确实挺烂的,可惜了这个故事,改编出来的剧本和成片完成度怎么就这么一言难尽呢。分数全给歌曲和原作本身

  • 竭若灵 4小时前 :

    开头有点尬住 第一首就带进去了 整体OK的

  • 梅寅骏 2小时前 :

    本来以为是最适合拍成电影的音乐剧……

  • 线翰飞 1小时前 :

    主角年龄太大,有违和感。一个谎言引起的共情故事,剧情比较拖沓,算是一个青春物语。

  • 脱醉柳 7小时前 :

    That's a lie.

  • 风鸿禧 3小时前 :

    一个神经病大闹了一个半小时再花半个小时自我救赎的故事

  • 瑞晨 8小时前 :

    剧本好差🆘 不如直接出官摄 剧本改编的不行演技也没有很到位剪辑平庸又混乱 删掉所有不该删掉的歌 作为音乐剧粉丝我不可以忍受 不知道导演在干什么

  • 项筠竹 5小时前 :

    前半程铺垫好长,直到两家人坐到一起,剧情才开始饶有趣味,有了厚度。不去看别人,敢不敢爱真实的自己,才是我们的功课。

  • 阎修然 8小时前 :

    主要为了支持David 电影🎬其实挺一般的

  • 本德明 6小时前 :

    等了好久终于上映了。很喜欢原版的音乐剧,看电影觉得DEH真的是好本子,再怎么改也不会太难看的那种()

  • 贝合乐 6小时前 :

    这种题材改编成电影,两个多小时有点长了,可以精简一下

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