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."
双女主，girl helps girls。故事文本上有些bug，追看线也比较弱，但通过华美视听，竟然都能掰回来，而且观感还不错，确实体现导演功力。美术加分，乐品极好，第一次的穿越舞会闻到一丝盖茨比的气息，全片对镜子的使用花样百出，完美的串起了女主和sandie的视角转移，引领观众进入故事，产生同情。
前面打开新世界越兴奋 后面会因为越接近真实而不适 这也许就是常说的好看得不真实 真实得不好看
有点虎头蛇尾，意犹未尽。镜头很棒，立意也好。失足少女啊，穿越时光的女性意识的觉醒，太美了。
感觉从《我们》来的一面镜子照见一个人的两个后脑勺这个创意被发扬光大了，粉色的裙子配金色蓬蓬的头发加上Downtown的舞蹈的安雅太美了。以及果然酒吧小妹乱蓬蓬的头发和浓厚的眼妆不值一提练成的。一百次的死亡之后都练成平和的绝望了，安雅的悲惨也太好哭了。
音乐 剪辑 镜头配合完美，服化道和置景上颇具匠心，爽片～
这些不合理都削弱了剧情和女主Anya的感染力。
感觉从《我们》来的一面镜子照见一个人的两个后脑勺这个创意被发扬光大了，粉色的裙子配金色蓬蓬的头发加上Downtown的舞蹈的安雅太美了。以及果然酒吧小妹乱蓬蓬的头发和浓厚的眼妆不值一提练成的。一百次的死亡之后都练成平和的绝望了，安雅的悲惨也太好哭了。
希区柯克啦，库布里克啦，德帕尔马啦，波兰斯基啦，今敏啦，罗伊格啦……埃德加赖特拍出这么一部片子来宣布：“只要是你能想到的导演，我都不如他们。”
能感觉到路子是在致敬七八十代的惊悚片，镜像、霓虹闪烁的一些影像挺棒的，故事只能说讲好了一半，女主咋咋唬唬的表演绝对是扣分项。安雅很适合全程诱惑
試問倫敦的老房子裡哪一間不會有亡魂遊蕩？別說SOHO區了，出現在電影81分的時候那個四四方方棺材盒子一樣的圖書館可不就是敝校？裝什麼UAL！好想去SOHO喝酒，it's still the same old London underneath。女主們好美好敢，把男權統統捅死吧。
this hits too close to home 女主甚至一开始的卧室上就挂着我每天上班都要走过的路 无法客观评分 比预期低还是还是挺好 但是的确该爱导的很多东西没有展现出来 不知道是摸鱼了还是在干什么
同样是开头伴随的，还有从始至终的对男性的讽刺（挺狠的），将女性当作工具，言语的践踏和行为的侵犯，都交织在一起汇聚为影片主题表达的重要元素：女性处境与女性觉醒
结局是什么鬼……前面还挺有趣的，恐怖段落解释了男生愤怒的一个问题吧：为什么网上的女权总是把所有男人都当作强奸犯。
惊悚外衣包裹下的逐梦悲剧，而悲剧的力量又突破了惊悚外衣的束缚，最终沉淀下的仍然是悲剧。
乡下女孩来到伦敦学艺术，被包租婆骗押二付二住鬼屋，奋起反抗揭穿包租婆的老底拿回押金的故事？只是可惜了两位女主的颜了被拿来当导演的遮羞布。音乐实在是铺得太满了…（6.5/10）
只有刚入梦境的时候还有点意思…镜面表演实在太好玩了！但后面这拍的啥呀 双女主的惊恐脸比剧情更可怕好吧（贬义） 差点没认出荆棘女王 她的表演才是真的吓人（褒义）
火场里抱紧Sandie好温暖，最终获得了救赎吧这是。镜子舞蹈那段不错。
太好看了呜呜呜，反转又反转我爱了。安雅真的好有魅力啊。情节让我想起了一个记者的照片，拍到了战场上的医生救死扶伤但没拍到有人用枪指着医生
其他都好，就是结局太形而上。肯定是疫情惹的祸，太主旋律了，一派合家欢盛景。
最佳也最正确的方式当然是get out那样藏匿在日常生活中的怪异，别扭和凝视。本片选择的却是一种廉价的奇观式迷眩，面貌模糊的男性压迫者如同僵尸一样附着在城市的各处，镜像和声音都过度重复，看来听来只显滑稽。
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