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."
情节有点不连贯，节奏有点慢，背景音乐完全跟不上内心戏。但怎么说，完结了。
浪客剑心真人版系列最好的一部。影片开始一连串的厮杀先声夺人，亮明了刽子手拔刀斋的冷酷无情，喷溅的血成雾状，配合拔刀斋快速的劈砍，在视觉上造成很强的冲击感。带着怨念的刀疤，一场腥风血雨的邂逅，雪代巴是刽子手的刀鞘，她带着仇恨却救赎了绯村，将他杀人的刀封印起来让他活着像个人。佐藤健演绎的绯村拔刀斋纯真温润的让人心碎，有村架纯的雪代巴出奇的好，转型很成功
女性的视角，最能体现影片的主题，全世界都一样，古代的女人实在可怜又可悲，而最后的决斗，双方都只是为了男性的尊严，而女人即便有在强的反抗世俗的意识，也只能像一只无助的羔羊，听天由命
“强暴不是对女人施加的罪行，而是侵害她男性监护人的财产”
24th SSIF No.13Final@衡山。四星半。1.没有原作开头比古收留剑心的身世交代，也没有动画终了高杉晋作最期倒在新时代大幕拉开前的悲壮。本作始终聚焦剑心与巴的悲情命运，名场面如你真是带来了血雨和雪地之战都饱满还原。村花那一刀把握到了不能轻一点，不忍重一分的微妙力度。不过字幕对“对不起，夫君”的误译扣分。2.分镜构图自然不如动画犀利，但招招致命血光四溅的动作设计比动画更能表现杀戮的残酷。总司与剑心的对决被提前到了池田屋骚动，很过瘾。3.以始为终，以终为始，飞天于大火中响起，片尾回到系列最初鸟羽伏见之战，剑心插刀入地，画面变灰，怅然若失。想等一个配In memorize的粉丝cut结尾。4.及不上原作那部史上最高ova，却依然无愧日本最佳漫改之名。其实无须谈漫改，这部是庄严正剧风。
首先并不是罗生门，试着理解老雷的拍摄意图，在三段细节差异极小的叙述中找到关系的真实、全面微妙之处，但呈现出来的效果确实并不尽如人意，大量的重复很拖沓、仅靠对白和情景还原有很力弱。
Respect the subject and all the design and stuff but nothing more.
时长很长，但每一场戏都像急着拍完跳到下一场。三个主角的刻板程度令人震惊 。雷德利最好的电影的主角永远是尼采式的超人。《普罗米修斯》里的大卫简直就是《论道德的谱系》里走出来的金发雅利安野兽。但那些“软弱”的人，在他电影里近乎无一例外地面目模糊……
编剧阵容爱了。中世纪与现在相比，其实也是太阳底下无新事
三个视角的罗生门，自大自恋的人能把强奸想象成被勾引。
最后男主胜利围观妇女为男女主夫妇鼓掌那里真是莫大的讽刺
第一悲情男和第二普信男的视角里，女性是严重被物化的对象，第三视角告诉我们，在冷冽粗暴的男权底色上，仍有微弱的女性坚持自己的色彩自己涂抹。可悲是类似的戏码千百年来依旧在上演，幸运是女人不用再将自己的命运系于男人间的生死之搏。朱迪很棒，在一众老戏骨里，表现依然可圈可点。
只有高潮才能怀孕的女人，额。被强暴与有快感是两回事。我的快感只属于我的丈夫。名不正言不顺，引爆花心也没用。第二段才是真相。中世纪的Me-too。三星半
我Jo演的也太赞了！！就是剧情有些拖沓，在电影院没法倍速播放好着急！
画面挺唯美出色，OST弱了一点 相比动画版不止一点，剑心的高马尾相比动画版整个气质都很还原，心中永远的最强漫改。
《罗生门》式的叙事，在拍摄上可以取巧；第三部分玛格丽特的叙述最为可信，最后的决斗场面也很精彩。
雷导用罗生门的手法讲述一次决斗事件，三人在讲述自己的故事版本中，都会不自觉地将自己描绘成无辜的受害者，但是不管决斗结果如何，作为女性始终会扮演牺牲品的角色。
这片票房如此惨淡也不是没有原因的，表面上是吸引男性观众的血腥暴力战争决斗元素，内核确实对男权控诉讽刺的女性主义表达，在商业上确实不管哪一方面受众都不讨好。
【86】早二十年诞生就是又一部经典。生不逢时——Or老雷还是那个老雷，世界却在一路回转
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