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."
剧透：其实地产大亨的婚生子才是外表呆萌内心黑化，大亨想要妥善安置情妇和私生子。婚生子找到黑警做掉了情妇，私生子被女主救走。呆呆事发后连自我了结的勇气都没有，埋头在妈妈怀里痛哭。
6分。这其实是部爱情片啊~~~金刚狼化身大情圣，追寻着逝去的爱人~~这故事实在是太老套了。最关键一点，是Rebecca Ferguson竟然玩了一手自杀？？看到这里我嘴都合不拢了，就不能搞点花样嘛？？迈阿密变威尼斯的想法还是不错的，但这个和所谓的大战等等背景故事根本就没发挥，完全浪费了世界观设定。吴彦祖的造型不错，但演这么个小喽啰完全没必要吧？？
我可怜的祖成为了背景板和笑料担当了。在回忆里度过余生。
6，太可惜真的太可惜了，摄影和配乐差点误以为是诺兰的电影，恍惚间像回到了盗梦空间，诺兰家御用果真高逼格，而且未来水上世界呈现效果太震撼了，前半段很棒，传统艺能玩记忆很溜以为要封神，但可惜后半段剧情太傻逼桥段太俗，导致崩塌的太惨烈，观众都猜出来的简单故事还要磨磨唧唧，而且本可以多做点文章来升华的nostalgia，差强人意，全片休叔的感情出发和转变都无比生硬怪异。
如果俄耳甫斯最后没有回头和欧律狄克过上了幸福的生活，那这不仅不是一个幸福结局更是一个邪恶的故事。
这个水箱的设定太奇怪了，如果有了这个东西，世界肯定会有许多意想不到的事
味同嚼蜡.演员CP不足,故事驱动性不足.背景空成摆设
追忆这个题材，本来可以做的更好，回忆机器是个美妙的点，但故事实在是太拧巴了，越往后看越觉得疲沓，可惜了了。女主的美背值得一赞，吴彦祖连花瓶都不是了。
观看之前没有看任何剧透：果然是女导演，难怪情感方面把握的细腻……
经典高开低走，有些失望…开场就一副要弥补《马戏之王》里的遗憾的架势，随后女主的几个pose不免让人想起《碟中谍5》，女配那段枪战又有点《西部世界》小酒馆的意思，虽然看得爽，但未免有些谄媚。故事后半段乏善可陈，过于无聊了。
不应该对它执念不忘 朝未来吧..
诺兰家的还是喜欢玩时间概念，弟媳这次自编自导，用了几个<西部世界>里的老伙计，剧本算是比较规整，但真没什么出彩的地方，概念设定的呈现效果也质感一般。狼叔看丽贝卡·弗格森唱歌就像是<马戏之王>的彩蛋，后者真是美，至于阿祖，为什么每句话里总要混一个中文词？
泰坦尼克号上只有两种人:富人和小人。
好奇的想问导演一句，自己的记忆，不是应该是自己眼睛里看见的东西吗，按理来说，只能第一视角来承显自己的记忆，可是电影里却是第三视角，不科学的。剧情发现到中间，突然出来一个已逝的地产商，剧情前面没有一点暗示也没有一点铺垫，这……
城市、迷乱被不断打断：不成节律的语调，毫无意义的叙述。并未弥散的黑色，不成功的作品
没想分这么低，我给个五分吧，影片的氛围很独特，像是欧美的游戏过渡，异样的世界塑造很迷幻、苍凉，爱情是这个末世盛开又枯萎的花朵……
城市、迷乱被不断打断：不成节律的语调，毫无意义的叙述。并未弥散的黑色，不成功的作品
设定很好，构思也很好，但是我打心眼里不喜欢这个故事。是讲阴谋还是讲爱情，选一个说清楚吧。爱情不让人觉得深刻，倒是让这故事里的人花了一辈子去记住。
标准的黑色电影，某些画面和对白让人疑惑这电影当初也许只是打算拍成文艺片走电影节路线
电影三星。多一星给阿祖，给guanxi，给niu，给poor guisunzi，给pengyou，等等那些阿祖口中的念念叨叨。
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