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."
打破对父亲的滤镜 那一刻男主十几年的包袱都好像放下了
本阿弗莱克做制片和编剧是很可以的，但非要跑去演戏。大家是对的。
整部电影的主题感觉没有很明确，父亲的缺失这一主线没有贯彻的很好，但这绝对是最能展现本·阿弗莱克魅力的电影，满足了所有人幻想中的舅舅形象.
寡淡的节奏，浓郁的男人和男人之间的情谊，忘记辈分和年龄，间歇性的一些金句，像极了男性的人生，一开始往往浑浑噩噩，被别人的决定影响，这时候只需要周围有一帮不离不弃朋友，总有一个时间点，自己会觉醒自己需要什么。
只有韩国电视剧和电影可以把男人转身拯救男/女主的掉头镜头拍的那么帅。
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2022.1.30 1.5韩国上映 1.28就上线了！太快了吧 因为寄生虫的关系对崔宇植蛮有好感的 还有赵震雄 厉害 我只能说这片设计的是真的精妙 源于优秀的故事原著 以及完美的剧本 故事真是异常的精彩 只是不知道为啥豆瓣评分会越来越低..这样优秀的佳作7.5分起码的吧。。但我也没完全看懂 毕竟我现在理解能力大不如前了 崔宇植是真的帅没想到他和赵震雄搭档的居然这么默契 简单说就是一个靠外部黑帮提供所谓的“赞助金”位于灰色地带的警察 屡次立功被监察部门盯上了让男主调到他的部门去监视他 但中间突然被监察部门抓去审问 就被组里的成员发现了孤立他(他是男主爸爸之前的手下) 他们有个组织就是依靠赞助商提供的钱去抓犯人 但后面发展成了一个腐败组织 最后通过钓鱼执法抓到了一笔大的毒品走私
近期看过的Ben affleck出演的第二部影片。另一部是《最后的决斗》。在很多男演员太脱不了越老越油腻的当下，他却依然帅气。比较喜欢这部电影男主小时候那部分，有些温情，有点感人。但自从男主入学哈佛并恋爱之后，这部电影似乎进入了另一种模式，说不上来的感觉。但也能理解作者想要表达其中一点是，如果一个人不爱你，无论你变得多么优秀，依然也不能让他(她)多爱你一分。男主背负着母亲的期许努力学习考上最终考上耶鲁，以为生活就会发生变化，但事实证明，如果自身不做出改变，寄希望于外界和他人带来的改变都是徒劳的。
故事就真的是一句剧情简介可以概括的，平淡如水，看点也就是电影里一直缺失的舅舅做人生导师的形象，大本带着外甥一路出现的那些好听的歌曲。
讲述男主人公的成长历程，以及Uncle Charlie作为引路人的重要影响，但整体却十分平淡，少有能够让人产生共鸣的地方。三星。
缺点是不smooth 优点是审美在 画面的颜色处理 服装有品 音乐也复古 各类角色演员都选的贴切 Tye演技真棒的 大本和角色浑然一体了 又喜欢他一点了哈哈 这些都盖过了明显的缺点 所以四星
整个故事还是很温暖的，谁不希望拥有一个这样文艺又酷的舅舅呢
这片子吧 就是说我看这个韩国人的警察局里 除了新人小崔 咋感觉没一个好人呢哈哈哈哈哈（小崔最后也为所欲为去了
不推荐，有一点boyhood的影子，有创伤的小孩长大，也没有多温柔
大概改编于日本小说的缘故，风格有别于韩影其他罪案片。节奏很紧凑，对警察的职责发出疑问，什么样子的执法为最终选择，是法律还是市民？就像台词里所说的：警察要始终立身于警戒线上方，黑与白，站哪一边也不行，只要市民们支持我们的工作，我们始终都能站在灰色地带上方，当然，稍有不慎，人们会把我们纳入黑的那一方，这就是警察。游走在河边的人，把握不好这个度，那就是“唯独不要当警察”！
有叔叔及其朋友们的温柔酒吧。
逐渐从白道切黑道的过程 来绳之以法 咖啡毒品 口哨 但真正警察最高层才是黑帮勾结在替罪羊 见到上面的人 赎出来组长 把更坏的人抓住
装腔作势了半天，剧情混乱到无法收拾，最后强行反转几下也没翻身
很文艺的作品，里面金句频出。在没有父亲的成长中，舅舅外公很好的弥补了男性角色的空缺，让jr能有一个正常的人生，有希望的人生。“we are the desendant of the luck”
警察的灰色地带。如果想要抓住坏人，不得不一同堕入地狱。
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