剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 婷璇 1小时前 :

    跟預想的期待完全不同(題材期待),是一部做得還算不錯的復古青少年題材驚悚電影,倒是很有斯蒂芬金這個類型的影子,不過直觀上前期大部分時間節奏有點緩,高潮結尾後又覺得很多地方沒交代清楚鋪墊不夠

  • 卫晓丽 7小时前 :

    最后几拳打得还蛮过瘾,但罪案和通灵嫁接得太糙了,70年代背景也是几口脏话和几下蛮力

  • 库景中 5小时前 :

    這部電影看的人還挺多,我們這場幾乎滿場,Jump Scare還不錯,觀眾的驚嚇聲不絕於耳,最後男孩反殺大家都一起鼓掌,雖然劇情有點cliche,但是整體故事還是比較完整,屬於驚悚和靈異的雙重看點。另外,伊森霍克哪怕是戴著面具都能感受到他無窮的演技。小女孩的演繹也可圈可點,最有趣的是當小女孩因為得不到上帝的指示而憤怒地說除非上帝不是真的時,我們這場的觀眾有很多發出聲音表示不滿,彷彿在說「你怎麼能這樣對Jesus不敬」。

  • 巢春兰 0小时前 :

    阿...这面具...进击的伊桑·霍克...

  • 姜怡乐 1小时前 :

    编剧估计是看《鬼妈妈》里那段找的灵感吧,逝去的亡魂合力帮助主角,听起来确实还不错,但能稍微用点心吗?你以为拍小鬼当家啊?伊桑霍克就硬在楼上睡着等男主挖陷阱neng死他是吧?

  • 成盛 4小时前 :

    阿...这面具...进击的伊桑·霍克...

  • 哀梓欣 8小时前 :

    3星半,伊桑霍克怎么接了这么一个角色?最后10分钟很精彩。

  • 卫铮鎏 0小时前 :

    7-8|只有孩子相信。他能听到,但他不信。很不错的儿童成长探索电影。(jump scare算不算是恐怖界的谐音梗啊?破,但管用….

  • 家忆枫 0小时前 :

    不错的反击桥段设计,非要玩弄别人心理的变态,也尝到了骨折的痛苦。

  • 卫东 2小时前 :

    太有意思了!选角无敌,智商在线!男主身上有犬之力的味道。

  • 冰岚 0小时前 :

    探讨了青少年生活中遭遇的各种霸凌和暴力,以及如何反抗暴力、更好地保护自己。各种暴力内容和伊桑霍克扮演的变态杀手都能给人带来梦魇。两个年轻主演演得非常好。

  • 府明杰 6小时前 :

    内核竟然还是《小丑回魂》那一套,迪士尼无话可说。这种做法是很保险,但十分无趣,而且本来是惊悚片结果既不惊悚,也不刺激,白白浪费了伊桑·霍克和斯科特·德瑞克森这对搭档。

  • 卫银红 9小时前 :

    伊桑光着上身穿着皮裤拿着鞭子坐在那里的时候我好想吸干他

  • 婷香 8小时前 :

    “总有一天,你得站出来保护自己。”

  • 买运锋 4小时前 :

    为了把一部短篇小说拉长到一部电影强行加入各种毫无必要的剧情和角色。本来跨越生死,五人合一的剧情可以很感人很热血,偏要拍成jump scare遍地的廉价鬼片。

  • 东雅歌 7小时前 :

    伙伴们比变态还吓人,感觉更紧凑一点会好很多

  • 仆明诚 2小时前 :

    五个血呼啦的孩子站路当中挡了一下妹妹那里还是挺感动的,好朋友也很令人感动。结局很大快人心:It's for you…

  • 悉海伦 1小时前 :

    两个小孩外加伊桑霍克的演技在线,男孩总是比女孩成熟得晚

  • 彩婷 4小时前 :

    小正太很帅,剧情紧凑,悬念和惊悚感都很不错,以少年的视角去解读,真是又酷又有趣。还有那个勇敢和可爱的妹妹也很加分,兄妹俩都太招人喜欢了。

  • 丽柔 8小时前 :

    很规整,也很清流。冷静而且聪明的小孩简直就是光芒四射。电影倒不恐怖,剧情也比较少年类型,那就当看了一部有感动有冒险的金氏儿童电影吧。

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