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."
院线版看得稀里糊涂的地方基本都理顺了，三个新英雄的戏份安排也很有节奏，基本跟着主线走又不会互相抢戏，笑料的安排很自然，小闪真的又可爱又勇敢哭死了。从故事重心来看这部的主轴其实是钢之炼金术师钢骨，起源和主线绑定了。没想到郑恺戏份乱多（配角而言）。还有挺多想说还是不剧透了可惜没有后续了！！
扎导崇拜力量感，古典美，神圣美，所以他拍超人，怎么拍怎么好，钢铁之躯，力与美。但是拍蝙蝠侠就拍不好，蝙蝠侠是黑暗骑士，这个黑暗不是指色调，是复杂曲折的剧情，诡谲与智谋，而不是莽夫，这方面扎导几乎是白痴，所以他拍不好最伟大的超级英雄蝙蝠侠。
再版加长也改变不了其烂的本质，对白僵，剧情僵，人物刻画僵，打斗僵，总之是从头僵到尾，每个人都是一脸屌样，片子再烂帅就对了，英雄组团的意义在于即将到来的危机足够大，需要集结起来抵抗，这也是片头蝙蝠侠的初衷，几个主角聚齐之后一个劲地吹捧超人，没他不行，影片过分强化超人与其他成员的实力差距，超人复活1打4，超人归来反派扑街，神女海王只有补刀的份，不禁想问组成这个联盟的意义在哪，其他人都要倚仗超人那跟普通民众有什么区别，钢骨他爸死得莫名其妙，蝙蝠侠一点没体现出智囊的人设，最后还用起了枪.....还是重温下14年的正义联盟战争抢救抢救吧，心脏不好
看完依然很感动，回去把另一个版本怒改一星，以此叩谢扎导的回归。
For Zack Snyder
这才是DC宇宙打开的正确方式！同样是磅礴的架空和复杂的角色，没有如漫威长达十年的铺垫，单在一个2小时的公映版中是很容易失焦的（当时看公映版就觉得荒原狼毫无存在感）。4小时剪辑版扩充了该有的故事线，加了大量关键角色（片尾彩蛋），人物更鲜明更立体，最主要是文戏使得整个正义联盟的形象丰满了起来。7.7
之前那部基本忘记剧情啦。这部当重新看。精彩，真好看。Batman的梦境恐怖啊，小丑也在，还有些少见角色，超人要黑化吗？续集还有没有啊？
剧情的流畅度，跟bvs的衔接，画面的美感，构图的极致，氛围的渲染，这才是真正的正义联盟啊，更别说这部电影背后粉丝们跟资本博弈的热血，请给这个世界更多鼓励好吗！！
亚马逊人怎么穿成那样，想象一下如果只有我跟几个姐妹长期生活在一起，我们一定不会每天穿小短裙爆乳装的......
比如爹为狗死，比如我妈是玛莎，比如这次的蝙蝠侠手接超人镭射眼（有人想拿手套材质说事的，你们是觉得超人不会转眼珠吗？以及荒原狼的盔甲都抵不住镭射眼攻击，你们能接受阿福发明出更牛逼的材料，那你们和扎克真的很配）。
不是DC粉，把四个小时的片长拆开当作迷你剧看的，竟然感觉还不错
正联作为一个团队真的没有什么团队感可言，蝙蝠侠跟前一部一样，弱到不行，可能是其他人都太逆天了，相称之下的结果，扎导的原剧本其实问题也挺多，如果没有华纳的骚操作，7.5分也是可以的
如果当年上映的是这版，我会愿意多付一倍票价，拍摄手法和价值观都很传统，但这传统动人，4小时沉浸在另一世界里，屋外的时间流逝已然觉察不到，这就是电影的力量。希望电影资料馆尽快上映这片，另外，还希望王导也能剪一个完整的一代宗师。
四个小时，挣扎着看完。有必要吗真的有必要吗……看到最后看他们打架看烦了都
我很少给五星,这次给的原因很简单,一个大型电影公司愿意承认自己做错了,愿意承担责任重新制作一部电影,历史性的举动.
并没有比院线版强。。。。但话又说回来，没有任何一个作品能承受住全球粉丝数年如一日的期待，然后满足所有人。2077如此，扎克版jl也如此。这个版本能出来的意义远大于电影本身。
当年院线版的标记是：五分钟一段的话，就像看了部24集泡面番整成的大电影；所以这就是泡面番的本体迷你剧。整体的正剧感、美学概念肯定比院线的更有质感，但叙事还是相当的碎块化（而且不可避免），且第一章节的进入方式有点hard，特别是对新观众来说会不太友善；另一方面，特效也基本是“基本完成任务”，当然，坚持一个小时，眼睛也就躺平了。
即使经历过四年的等待和坚守 即使是我昧着良心打开了这份提前流出的版本 但这一切都值得！
8/10，比之前院线版好太多了，无论从世界观建设，人物性格，末世氛围，故事的完整度等方面全部碾压院线版，看院线版看的莫名其妙，渣导版还是有极大的野心，达克赛德，超人黑化等因素都是未来可以十分期待的看点，可惜之后怕是看不到了。不过话说回来，院线版的扑街也怪不得尾灯，渣导野心太大，这就不是一部两小时的院线片能容纳的，所以不如老老实实多拍些单飞作，等人物塑造基本完成再打出王炸（正义联盟），漫威的成功确实是有道理的，这方面DC还是有些急于求成了。不过我最想看的是，有生之年DC能否摆脱华纳，自己杀出一片天呢。还有，DC还是没能摆脱超人太强的问题，其他人的存在感还是低，就女侠还好点。再者，闪电侠最后逆转时间不就是个bug了吗？（虽然漫威时间宝石也是）
依旧是扎克施耐德的内味，高水准的分镜构图，浓郁的油画质感画面，在没有太多英雄个人电影铺垫的情况下依旧把每个人的基本经历和特色讲述得清晰到位，剧情也比院线版更饱满完整，围绕荒原狼的多次打戏绝对是超英顶级水准，巴里救女友、亚瑟风暴脱衣装逼和最后神速力翻盘的配乐更是加分项
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