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."
比第一部好看，徒手擒匪的首尔警痞马东锡，必然要比在超英电影里满天飞有看头多了。这个系列大概是韩国商业类型片里最没港味的，当然反之风格也贴向了日本极道片，包括正反派的设定，如果完全做成严肃警匪片风格可能反而不会那么卖座，说到这儿果然还是有些早期成龙片的味道……总之娱乐性还是挺高。
虽然说剧情上有反转，但是从头到尾还是有点太平铺直叙，基本上没有啥视听技巧，高潮来的太晚，反转有些俗套到让人猜到。编剧转导演的处女作还是很稚嫩。
仿佛又看了一遍第一部，可惜的是没第一部反派狠和强，巴掌侠依旧无双模式，希望第三部能来个吨位差不多的反派，不然感觉都是在捏小鸡崽子。
①过程很精彩，但事后缓过神来一咂摸，觉得不是那么回事——无论生活还是观影，常常有这样的情形，这部电影最大的问题是裁缝闹这么大动静，冒这么大风险的直接动因，并不够有说服力；②表演方面几位主角几乎满分，男主是《间谍之桥》里那个口头禅是「害怕有用吗」的那位苏联间谍，年轻女前台也不错，微表情丰富准确；③创作这种类型的电影，意料之外不难，情理之中不易，吸睛靠的是前者，但后者才真正考验编剧智商。3.75星
节奏和气氛都很好，几个重要的转折过于失信。做成舞台剧去演，讲不准更好看一些。
从头到尾只有一个场景却很好看，人人都以为他是NPC，结果他是扫地僧
设计精巧 剧情逻辑合理地运用了地缘人物的性格，胖老板（美国人）教父一般附庸风雅地重感情、里奇（儿子）愣头青没头脑、弗朗西斯（准接班人）功夫在身权力驱使谋略稚嫩、拉芳丹（黑人）天然地对白男人强权有抵触、梅布尔（FBI）借机串联里奇获情报。把人物行动安排合理又是依据其个性使然 而英国人“魔鬼从天花板上掉下来，我都不吃惊！”
最后裁缝的大花臂出来有点过了，前面的反转挺精彩的，结尾有点败笔。
对比《杀戮》、《不道德的审判》、《穿裘皮的维纳斯》等同类型佳作，有所不足的是剧本节奏感有欠平衡，结尾的反转也稍显刻意了。
“我让你查案，不是让你把他送走”笑死
明显看到人口五千万的韩国在嘲讽人口一亿的越南。故事有明显的逻辑硬伤，别看打了半天，几个人主角光环太多，配角一圈到，主角砍半天砍不到。干脆直接被设定搞得冷兵器时代算了，动作设计也有很多缺陷，跆拳道？算了，也就这样了
看看人家这演技！其他有些人还好意思说自己是演员吗？整个故事只基于一个场景，却足够惊心动魄，足够演一出完美的舞台剧。
故弄玄虚得很厉害，比如开头那一长段长段的对话和自白，比如结尾还非要露一下手臂纹身装个逼……
韩国流民也是一个臭德行啊，出国专坑自己人。
＠Shattuck｜好爱英国老头Rylance
3星半。不如第一部，主要是格局有点小，简单的剧本就这么按部就班的平铺直叙下来了，远不如第一部故事复杂，一众配角也缺少存在感，反派虽然癫狂暴虐，但战斗力和气场比第一部的哈尔滨张全蛋还是差了些，而且吧，可能是为了顾全评级，好在更多院线上映，血腥暴力尺度方面也收敛了。但是，这第二部同样拍的很成熟，节奏感很好，同样是一部值得很一看的商业爆米花，别的都不提，谁又能拒绝看马东锡打人呢，一拳一个，真的爽呀。
仿佛又看了一遍第一部，可惜的是没第一部反派狠和强，巴掌侠依旧无双模式，希望第三部能来个吨位差不多的反派，不然感觉都是在捏小鸡崽子。
大爽片，匕首斧子砍刀乱战媲美黄海了，马东锡碾压式的实力真硬派。
同样是裁缝，同样搞地下活动，如果《Kingsman》能拍成这样也比现在吃老本走下坡路强啊。全片被浓缩在一个小小的裁缝店，背叛、窃听、谋杀，一样不少，不过感觉反派们吃亏在“录音机”刚刚问世、尚未普及，不然这一计谋从一开始就要被拆穿。男主不慌不忙地下套、使绊，随机应变、信口开河的功夫确实了得，人生经历的设定也着实起伏，曾经的花臂大佬拿起了绣花针，但关键时候照样可以心狠手辣。
好喜欢这种空间有限的全靠剧情不断反转的小成本戏。上次看到同类型的还是很多年前的《惊世狂花》。
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