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:

  • 招巧兰 2小时前 :

    前一个小时温馨且俗套,后面五十分钟只剩下俗套了

  • 圭林楠 3小时前 :

    前半段对于数学之美的描述,让我想起了以前学数学的快乐时光,热爱就是这么纯粹。如果能不代入政治内容就好了。

  • 摩晓蕾 7小时前 :

    后期一点点不是太给力。不过已经很好了。该有的笑点和反转都有

  • 平楷 0小时前 :

    哎结尾挺好,奴隶屈服于现实,这种电影确实不多了,虽然故事讲的挺好,但是哪里看着不对劲… 感觉男主还是顺从的太快了,得有点儿所谓的大起大落才会让电影更好看一些,比如手刃自己兄弟?…

  • 初骏 5小时前 :

    数学是解开宇宙奥秘的语言,可惜我学不会,수포자就是我,我一直特别喜欢学数学好的人,特别能理解像北大韦神这样沉浸在数学公式里的天才,圆周率之歌真的太美妙

  • 司马玲珑 0小时前 :

    屁股决定了大脑。想起来精英部队,巴西拍这种片子有自己的套路。

  • 初呈 8小时前 :

    我一直认为,世界上只有一种英雄主义,那就是打不过就加入。很高兴终于看到一部与我观点相同的电影

  • 嘉家 5小时前 :

    最近被深深依赖的公司辞退了,究其原因还是自己太软弱。

  • 召依云 5小时前 :

    因为一个人,改变一个人。两个人互相因为对方改变了自己,走上了不同的人生道路

  • 仇映冬 8小时前 :

    崔珉植演技真的很好 但是剧情尤其是校园里一些玛丽苏情节就很接不住他的演技

  • 姜笑翠 5小时前 :

    很熟悉的配方,不过巴西比我朝更牛,有枪!

  • 尧腾 0小时前 :

    现代社会的奴隶,巴西这个罪恶的国度又一次更新你的认知,富人压榨穷人的方式真是层出不穷,花样繁多,真不如回家种红薯。

  • 仪玉轩 2小时前 :

    无意间看到是8分作品就点了进去,但是看了三分之二就看不下去了。故事脉络太容易猜了,男主性格很分裂:低调寡言的人在数学家面前格外傲娇卖萌。对于数学的理解,突飞猛进得太突然了,以至于羸弱性格的人突然间自信满满反驳老师这个场景特别站不住脚(从性格和数学能力两方面看,都不现实)可以有很悲剧的生活,但是全都堆积在几个主要人物上,叙事就格外着急……

  • 子车德曜 6小时前 :

    比较工整的故事+特别的设定,算有趣;前半段蛮正能量的,下半程又陷入棒子模式化套路,被拉胯...好好算个数学不好吗?e^(ix)=(cos x+isin x)多酷。

  • 怀宛秋 5小时前 :

    展示了一个更复杂的食物链,见识过巨大机器的运转以后,即使举起枪也没有自由。

  • 府慧月 4小时前 :

    现代社会的知识体量已经无比庞大,而我们还是在耗费一个人的青春,却仅仅只是在流水线上拷贝一些过往的素材。

  • 建冷荷 9小时前 :

    出彩的是最近韩影中为数不多的温情情感的自然流露 欠缺在故事剧情的自洽 最后的演讲有些走调 偶尔的回忆对比有点突然 完全不能相信一个数学家会有这样一个莽撞冲动的儿子 就还好

  • 旁嘉澍 5小时前 :

    离不开脱北了是吧,一方面说着北边也是兄弟,另一方面不择手段的各种诋毁,南朝鲜也就如此了。我看南北合并的时候你们怎么面对这种片子😁

  • 尾明明 6小时前 :

    数学是解开宇宙奥秘的语言,可惜我学不会,수포자就是我,我一直特别喜欢学数学好的人,特别能理解像北大韦神这样沉浸在数学公式里的天才,圆周率之歌真的太美妙

  • 卫保仙 5小时前 :

    get到的点是,韩国电影的温情,数学之美,少年大叔同样缺失又互相治愈,忘年交,π的演奏曲...

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