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."
看不进去……难免让人觉得是一部 Nicole 为了冲奖才接的片子，也不太懂 Aaron Sorkin。
差点因为评分错过这部电影，一直以为施拉德是那种老派且无趣的导演，是我见识短浅了，老派干练的风格，镜头的精绝设计，人物的纯粹，贯彻本心的电影表达，得把第一归正会找来看看了.
非常好，尤其对比同样的关塔那摩题材（所以加一星，应该算7.5），终于涉及酷刑（或者杀人）对人的彻底毁灭，不仅是被折磨者，折磨者察觉到自己的身份和行为后，同样也会被摧毁。酗酒自杀和日复一日的赌博都是同样的行尸走肉，除非他将责任推给不可抗力，但这同样也是个人灵魂的毁灭。要说什么不满的话，和解没有呈现出足够的力量，除非强调黑皮肤的意义。另外，不知为何让我想起《在巴比伦》，但巴比伦美得纯粹，这里被灯光点亮的城市论画面而言太丑了，只要想到这一片紫红灯光就头皮发麻，但又电影意义上的很美，奇怪的感觉。当然眩晕的灯是美的。能找到让这种灯光呈现出美的方式，应该归功于导演和摄影的能力。
55的Kidman挑战39的角色勉强过关，小她两岁的Javier Bardem一脸褶子演33岁的小男生真是要人命！剧本也死气沉沉看了一半开始打盹。
演技都非常好，内容上还是有些冗长了，可惜了妮可。
差不多得了，漂亮台词逐渐取代了剧情，取代了剪辑，取代了电影，最终艾伦索金就变成了一个只会写漂亮台词的ai
作为传记片有点失败，看完让人完全不想了解这个人物原型和故事背景，妮可基德曼的妆发也很夸张，很像蜡像假人。
但太凌乱导致很冗长，观看途中停了3次
唱歌的巴登叔♪( ´▽｀)嘿嘿还挺好听的。绝妙的西班牙口音爱死我了！
剪辑有点乱，夹杂的那些回忆有点过于累赘了。但是妮可基嫚的表演是蛮惊喜的。
看得蛮费劲的片子～结束时大舒一口长气！坚持看下来主要是为演职班底的明星效应，其次是春节+疫情叠加的孤独，努力去体会另外一个女人在戏里戏外对家的追求，果然《旺达幻视》一般，完美家庭是主妇梦的幸福终端！至于结果，手动配白眼表情包：“切，男人！”，八卦俗套里的；不坏不可爱，如果靠得住～呵呵，猪都会上树。
很不错的剧本，看的时候还一度无法反应过来，不是很熟悉的背景人物，但相比塔米菲，还是能更多的有共鸣。妮可这个妆真不好看
Nicole在某些镜头下难掩脸僵但举手投足的大明星风范仍格外迷人。电影涵盖元素可谓不少，从麦卡锡反共到女性主义与好莱坞studio的运作八卦，全片有一种”严肃的学院派突然想放飞一把”的质感，我个人是很喜欢。
3.0。艾倫索金一出手便塑造了一個比麥瑟爾夫人更立體的女性喜劇演員，可惜視聽語言實在是平庸到備感乏味。
当太看重一个东西而产生患得患失的状态，对一件特别微不足道的事情近乎疯狂的吹毛求疵，恐怕这个时候她身边的人都会觉得她疯了吧...爱真的是天底下最让人捉摸不透的东西，深陷其中就会使人失去控制。
属于每年总有几部拿来冲奖的平庸传记片那一类，等于我又看了一遍《塔米·菲的眼睛》（但劳模实在太棒了
芝加哥七君子审判好歹还有历史背景加成，成片整成这样只能说索金作为导演终于原形毕露了（暴露了能力有限的本质）
索金的剧本也就是废话多了点，重心有点涣散，但实际上真的很有代入感。流媒体播放量已经说明一切，吊打倒数炸弹。
这嘴，好像就没有停过吧。一部传记片被拍的这么无聊冗长实在是厉害
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