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."
十多年前QQ空间发鬼图骗转发的把戏。还不如转发马化腾生日送一年黄钻呢。之前吹得那么好，原来是因为结尾诅咒观众啊，这你敢不吹上天？当然是能骗一个是一个了，大伙都来当大冤种。有一说一，这部片子的病毒营销和观影互动感绝对是数一数二的👍整部电影有几处很有感觉，不过整体比较无聊，故事比较混乱。配乐太多了很影响伪纪录片的感觉。中间插入的几个短视频倒是挺吓人的。
说一千道一万，不恐怖是最大硬伤。如果《中邪》是重量级，这个只能是业余级，都比不上泰恐。说不吓人吧，也设计了不少诡异的段子；说吓人吧，这些段子都差强人意和直给硬吓，甚至全片没有高潮。看见鬼的小女孩，地洞，怪声，八方天手印，连僵尸都整出来。元素不少，技术不行，完成度不足。5
拍的假要被骂垃圾 拍的真要被骂晦气 什么话都被你们说了呗
前因后果明明白白，逻辑可以自洽，人物也都有各自的性格和随着情绪产生的行为转变，没有二维工具人。对于邪教的背景也能自圆其说，相当厉害了。然后，这应该算是第一部华语区桌面电影吧！从放出预告片到现在差不多三年了，现在看来正片还是花了很多功夫仔细雕琢过的，诚意满满
跟另外的恐怖片一起看的，显得比较优秀。不作死不会死的故事。
妈的多重语咒，归根结底一句话，我恨中邪不上映
现在的恐怖片都这德性嘛？这也太无聊了吧，一开始还想耐心看完，后面直接2倍速走起，只是无聊的想笑，故弄玄虚，浪费时间。抱歉，那个咒语我没有记住。
故弄玄虚，语焉不详，推进极慢，看到一半就不耐烦了。第一版预告片吓人指数10，正片只有1。竟然还有人真情实感的觉得晦气？我只觉得呵呵。
很多人都因为被晦气到了所以打了低分，其实被晦气到了也就是被吓到了吧，那么恐怖片也就算成功了。民俗宗教元素串恐怖片真的很有代入感。里面有经典元素让我觉得蛮酷。招魂、驱魔人有多少分，这部电影就该多少分、甚至更高一些。
又又又又又一次遗憾 中邪 没能让更多的人看到。
虽然说还存在着很多恐怖片的通病，主角作死和降知，然而这部电影在结构上给我了很大的惊喜，和观众互动，在观众心里留下种子，诅咒观众，太狠了
可怕的基本在预告里面了，有点中邪那意思了……
虽然可以称得上是精品
加一星肯定它在我看过的华语恐怖片中的地位，毕竟此前看到的比较优秀的华语伪纪录片形式恐怖片只有《中邪》。相比之下，《咒》引入了更多的民俗元素，并且借鉴了大量外国恐怖片的设定。可是尽管它超越了简单的冒险故事情节（相比《昆池岩》，《致命录像带2》等），但仍未能留下太多的回味空间，大黑佛母只是“恶念之神”，所以它是为恶的，它是一个难以抗衡的诅咒的祸根，这或许简化乃至消解了民俗文化的意义，主角的使命只是与一个强大而不神秘之物（一个为恶的东西）对抗，这使它和很多内涵平庸的恐怖片没有区别了，或许它比这些恐怖片最大的亮点在于，它敢于大胆地诅咒观众。于是它让“晦气”成为了自身最被印象深刻的点，而非恐怖，或者神秘。
还可以吧，就是摄像头视角看得我好累，我真的不想看这个视角的恐怖片了。恐怖片也不是我喜欢的电影类型，我完全是跟风看的，与其抱怨恐怖片成为流行文化、不如我自己不再跟风！
作为伪纪录片，人物行为、多角度冗余机位等都暴露出许多不合逻辑的地方，但结尾才让人恍然大悟，原来这一切都是刻意而为之的，但这样给观者下套的方式显然会带来极大的争议，主创这种抖机灵但得罪观者的行为算不上讲述这个还算有意思故事的最有解。
晦气，下头，想玩诅咒观众那套结果功力不及午夜凶铃和厉鬼将映的万分之一，鉴定为寸寸地治胀
最后，有人看到了不该看的，
伪记录+互动，恐怖程度更进一步，高概念的华语恐怖片典型案例。一方面觉得导演和编剧拉观众下水的方式膈应人；另一方面觉得导演这种方式很聪明，成功的奏效了。
由于被剧透+全程吃薯片，就没觉得很吓人，那个女主一要念咒我就闭眼开炫，啥都听不见。
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