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."
越往后看越吸引人，电影的讲述方式十分现代化，利用网络和社会舆论推进剧情发展。
电影意义大于本身。法律的设定如果都需要电影来警醒，国家武器已经是聋子的耳朵了。
从立意上来说，至少印度演艺圈在做正确的关注，不论它是不是有促进意义。 从技术上来说，平庸的编剧，平庸的表演，漏洞百出的挟持案。
死刑是不可能死刑的，死刑虽然可以减少一部分强奸案受害者，奸杀比例会大大增加，法律首先会考虑保护人的生命安全。化学阉割也制止不了多少强奸犯，甚至会把他们催化成变态，被虐杀的人数可能会大大增加。强奸犯用重罚是应该的，应该刑期加长，不准减刑，出来后接受监管，定期报道，不能从事接触妇女儿童相关行业等，这样好像监狱不够关，也是奇怪，好像不论用什么方式都无法制止罪恶发生，当然还是直接毙了最干脆。女主演的挺好的啊
看完之后，觉得可不能让陈思诚、肖央看到这个片，否则就会有《误杀3》了，没准儿还让佟丽娅演。本片以一起人质劫持为导火索，一路揭秘和转折，找出劫匪背后的动机。最终的焦点是同理心，编剧成功玩转了希区柯克的罪孽转移法，对腐败的主流媒体和警察机关进行了精准的打击，展示了印度社会是如何轻视女性问题和心理健康的，虽然有些太过理想主义，但看到最后还是给打了一股强心针。
挺有现实意义的，但细节bug也是真的多，总理在里面跟嫌犯谈判呢，你就敢下令强攻，不怕激怒嫌犯同归于尽？女警代理处长更莫名，嫌犯只是个女人不会开枪的，直接正面强攻就行，多飙才能说出这种话。总理秘书、内政部长老想代替总理做决定是什么鬼，篡权也没这野心，就单独瞧不起女性，女的是怎么当选总理的，不被强奸属于基本权益吧，保证不了也是挺奇怪的。社会舆情也和正常的相反，舆情应该是见一面可以救14个小孩为什么不见，而政府是因为不能开这个先例不愿意见。一开始杀的小孩也很明显是假的，一点悬念都没有
强奸无论情节严重，一律死刑！这还分轻罪重罪吗？
2022年3月20日存想看，4月3日下载，4月4-5日看完。剧情的表面是一位印度女老师绑架所有孩子的故事，但是深度下面则是再次敲击了印度女性权益的问题。故事的套路借鉴了很多电影，但是结果不算俗套。只是女总理来现场这里的逻辑有点崩溃。这是在疫情状况下拍完的一部电影，很不容易的印度小品电影。存于硬盘8/其他地区电影/2022看过。
女性生存环境太不易，绑票劫持只为发声话语权。印度总理沉重道：这又是一个我们体制的受害者。故事展开和反转也是狗血到有点无语，但看到别人家能拍咱们只能干瞪眼的题材时，评价总是不得不加多一星……
电影存在的意义大于电影本身，就电影自身品质来说，还欠打磨。（2022.4.6豆瓣7.8分）
印度什么方面都比种花家糟糕，唯独电影文化输出，泱泱大国，任重而道远
“情绪是一种资产，你从年纪增长里学会它“。想说的太多，又发现无话可说，因为该说的都被说过了，现状依旧让人无力。看到最后，我真的理解了她的悲伤。
看完之后，觉得可不能让陈思诚、肖央看到这个片，否则就会有《误杀3》了，没准儿还让佟丽娅演。本片以一起人质劫持为导火索，一路揭秘和转折，找出劫匪背后的动机。最终的焦点是同理心，编剧成功玩转了希区柯克的罪孽转移法，对腐败的主流媒体和警察机关进行了精准的打击，展示了印度社会是如何轻视女性问题和心理健康的，虽然有些太过理想主义，但看到最后还是给打了一股强心针。
一堆人都在评论里说像误杀2，殊不知误杀系列都是翻拍的……建议陈思诚马上买下这部翻拍权去做误杀3，不用谢。
印度电影常常有种压抑了太久太久后喷薄而出的愤怒。可能没有哪个国家会像印度这样追求平等而苦苦不得的国家吧。追求平等会是个漫长的过程，漫长到有时候你会觉得呐喊并无意义。
有些国家的女性确实不容易
女警察，女记者，女性总理和女性“绑架犯”，意料之中的反转，剧本仅仅是将角色设计为女性便能引出女性精神，成功的商业作品。
看完之后，觉得可不能让陈思诚、肖央看到这个片，否则就会有《误杀3》了，没准儿还让佟丽娅演。本片以一起人质劫持为导火索，一路揭秘和转折，找出劫匪背后的动机。最终的焦点是同理心，编剧成功玩转了希区柯克的罪孽转移法，对腐败的主流媒体和警察机关进行了精准的打击，展示了印度社会是如何轻视女性问题和心理健康的，虽然有些太过理想主义，但看到最后还是给打了一股强心针。
看完心口会很难受，特别是巴士上那个摁住女主的男人的眼神。印度是这辈子肯定不会去的国家，肯定。
7.0 还是一样的故事，但这样的“发声”片不嫌多。
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