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."
优先场：进场前就知道大半剧情的类型片，担心的是拍摄手法和表达手法会否煽情过火。没有报什么期望，但有惊喜的，除了演员演得非常好，拍摄剪辑也交代得很好，good👍🏻
寻常生活中的不寻常，很多故事其实不需要多么华丽，故事本身就值得记录和传播。
一部酣畅淋漓的悬疑电影。
一部有血有肉的片子。情感拿捏得无法令人不动容，所有演员都太棒了。
吴君如的头发很像假发啊
文本层次稍显贫乏，部分段落重复闪回剪辑拖泥带水，大概30min就能概括的故事容量，尽管形式上用了诸多巧合与设计推进。论以非线性多视角花式解构黑色幽默，还是宁浩玩得最溜。
睇嘅係點影，粵語版，據聞係根據香港一個殘奧冠軍真人真事改編，主打勵志加親情？ 先講結論，3星，不過不失。 典型三段式嘅結構，開局交待背景節奏還挺好，唔拖遢，青年時代嘅故事個人覺得節奏感，情節處理，情緒邏輯發揮係最好，但最後講到成年之後嘅一大段故事就拉垮了，無論從 明顯睇得出刻意安排嘅故事衝突製造嘅煽情段落以及虛構嘅經紀人設置，令到整個可觀性明顯下降，最後變成感覺體育勵志以及母子親情兩不靠嘅地步 相比較主要演員嘅發揮還是在線，特別扮演有殘障嘅男主以及一眾配角，君如姐拍呢啲煽情戲有那麼一兩幕好似睇緊歲月神偷嘅感覺 最後個人覺得，要睇親情，遠不及歲月神偷，要睇體育勵志，不及 點五步 ⋯⋯
本来这蜜汁配色就足够劝退了，没想到故事更烂，剧本杀还讲究个前后因果呢，这片子就放肆了：角色死活跟闹着玩儿一样，而且既不荒诞也不幽默，最致命的是毫无主旨。这年代还有年轻导演因为迷恋多线叙事去东施效颦，严重怀疑他们的观影量还不及小学生……
明明是看开头就可以知道结局的励志成长亲情电影，却也被骗了几次眼泪。荧幕上的吴君如真美啊，温和、坚韧，表演非常熨帖，张继聪帅到我，方sir角色太有魅力。剧作上稍显不流畅，很多有趣的话题点到为止，部分台词矫揉造作，比赛的镜头调度也是煽情作用大于一切，理解这是影片一以贯之的风格，但就是，我不够喜欢咯。6.8分。
“你和爸爸结婚的时候一件金器都没有，以后我会拿很多很多金牌送给你”
国产黑色犯罪悬疑喜剧是内地院线并不常见的类型之一，本片采用剧本杀式的设定，将舞台设置在一所老宅之内，主演阵容也颇让人期待，拥有小成本爆款的潜质。影片的叙事手法和CULT风格多少致敬盖里奇、昆汀和诺兰等一众鬼才，剥洋葱似的闪回、层出不穷的反转，让真相拼图在观众面前逐步成型又不断推倒重来。作为处女长片，整体完成度值得加半星鼓励，期待曾经跑得贼快（？）的导演带来更多的惊喜之作。
妈妈也可怜，一路走来真的很不容易555
同工不同酬 原來奧運冠軍都要做快遞員 運動員都唔容易 聚光燈後還有很多辛酸
比如前面完全没有贩卖儿童的伏笔、完全没有尤大成和张总交易的伏笔、完全没有阎正（张颂文）的同事的伏笔……而且这种现象比比皆是。
虽说故事挺好的，好像也必须套用这样不断回溯的方式层层剥开，正是因为这个讲述方式故事才好看。可也是因为这种方式一而再再而三地来回翻，让故事很无聊。
不知道是脑瘫还是啥，演员演的挺好，从小到大。
反转太多次了，每次的开始有些平庸。也有一些说不出怎么不对劲的小bug。另外他这一觉睡得也太香了吧。
年度最差。小学高年级生都会嫌低幼的剧本，放在舞台上还能靠一惊一乍吓唬人，在影院只适合深夜档可怕片时段。万教授演舞台剧演上瘾了（我偷了什么？我又杀了谁？），可惜缺好本子呀
多次反转反转得都能猜到结局了，范伟老师现在无论演什么角色都是小品里的痕迹
虽然我还是看哭了，但不算特别好看，剧情过于平铺直叙和太多鸡汤式台词，吴君如的母爱也并不突出，和岁月神偷比真的有距离。不过估计金像奖入围是可以的，拿奖要看对手。最后一星给金jer的片尾曲，能在内地听到mirror的歌曲很感动。
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