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."
看得我太爽了，好久没有这种感觉了。意犹未尽。cast部分也很cult朋克！
还是印尼那个最带劲。四星。第一人称视角机械打斗+豚鼠系列熟悉的人体改造。棺材半头尸那个颇有亚洲恐怖片精髓，也四星，非常有氛围感。其他故事一般般，下水道鼠人三星吧，吸血鬼三星都没有，主线故事没啥东西。接着看前三部。
几个短片拼凑而成，人×机器人的部分可以做个cult长片，还有那么点看头，足够猎奇。
算是系列回勇之作？既然叫自己錄像帶，那這部的質感終於對了，這才是錄像帶該有的樣子嘛，所以我感覺整體驚喜程度正好是正比下降的，第一個故事挺驚喜，第二個故事中規中矩，第三個開始有點扯，最後一個就是無趣，然後到了串起整個故事的核心就直接崩了。畢竟還是不同導演的作品，自然還是有好有壞。
高情商：POV模式的伪纪录恐怖片；低情商：网友自制恐怖短片。低劣粗糙的画面和模仿本身就是这部片子最大的魅力和特点，其中若有若无的、类似于陈词滥调的政治讽刺（偏激又略显低智的美国红脖子被吸血鬼屠杀）也是片子的另一层意义。
就b级片而言，还是可以的，但是中间经常穿插各种不同时期的录像记录，就导致叙事有一些破碎感。更像一个灵异现象记录片合集。就一些固定的镜头还不错，但是手持的部分还是让人有一点难受。不过吓人一跳跟血腥部分还是可以的。
四个平庸的短篇凑齐来还算不错。《真·鬼影实录》＞《下水道的美人鼠》＞《自爆吸血鬼》＞《赛博疯子的诞生》 其实还是第三部的《平行世界》最cult。（2022.4.27豆瓣6.3分）
综合：6.5
01老鼠人 02亡灵复活 这个还蛮常见的 比较喜欢03科学怪人那个故事 各种人与机械的尝试 04屠龙少年终成龙 吸血鬼终成采血工具 少年好不容易厮杀到天亮 却因为身上沾有吸血鬼之血碰到日光爆炸这个点还挺玩味的
四个故事恶趣味一脉相承，录像带元概念优秀但不出彩，而且有简化故事结构的嫌疑。故意做旧的粗糙感太过，镜头切换很无厘头。看后兄弟们一致认为3>2>1>4，我个人的顺序是1>2>4>3，有时候越是basic的恐怖故事越令人印象深刻。
画面真有录相带时刻的感觉，只是看久了对眼睛不好。不建议多看。
鸡肋，食之无味弃之可惜。几个故事没什么亮点，以至于看第四个故事我就想不起来第二个讲的是什么了。第四个故事和主线最大的问题就是，太过晦涩，抽象，废话不会带来神秘感，而是让整体看起来含糊不清，神经病一样，和第三部的大缺点一脉相承。娱乐性不强，故事性不硬，晦涩难吃，我可以说这是风格，但是你能跟第二部学一下吗？别tm玩花活，好好讲故事可以吗，先穿裤子后穿裤衩，不会跑就想飞，你tm不是超人。。ps:提莫还是不错的。
这很明显，录像带帮助记录了人类的残忍，人类才是致命源，血腥，重口，却也很自然而然把惊悚带到现实来，每一段衔接还是显得很生硬，反正感官上绝对可以了，尤其像我这种很少看这种血腥题材作品的人
V/H/S 系列真是伪记录越拍越好看的奇葩。
没想到这个系列竟然还能回归，虽然整体质量平平。电影定了个94年的大背景，但这不应该成为渣画质的借口吧。四个故事，前两个很普通，第三个清晰度总算比较高，情节也完整，但改造人的设定实在是太老套了，跟《F军团》简直如出一辙。第四个就是垃圾，还顺带讽刺一把红脖子。第三个又是印尼的故事，看了下导演阵容原来是第二部的老伙计了。这次的主线警队突袭毒贩巢穴也是挺无聊的，无非就是为了片尾带出内鬼和VHS教团的设定。总的来说恐惧感也就那样，邪典劲儿依然十足，视觉效果上虽然是伪纪录，但真实感并不算强，晃来晃去也看不清。这次的警察是真惨，联想到《惊悚50州》第一季最后一个故事，话说那个放到VHS里也挺合适的。这个系列堂而皇之的拍这种地下邪典也算是业内特色了，情节只要有创意、不拉胯就不缺观众，这种猎奇题材永远会有市场
V/H/S 系列真是伪记录越拍越好看的奇葩。
最好看是邪恶博士那part，真的很邪.... 这系列最好看目前还是2
最好看是邪恶博士那part，真的很邪.... 这系列最好看目前还是2
这个系列难得的是每部虽谈说不上多好，但每部都不烂，都能维持住基本水准。更加难得的是，几乎每部都有至少一个很不错甚至能扩展成长片的故事。最新的这部里第三个印尼的故事，稍加润色，填充一些首尾，加一些细节，拍90分钟一点问题没有。除此之外，第二个故事氛围渲染很不错。
最近几年伪记录恐怖片越来越少了，久违的刺激！
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