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."
之前一直很期待，终于看完。导演的才气和勇气令人钦佩。我一直很喜欢《太阳照常升起》，它从看似真实的生活中偶然浮现的不真实让我着迷。《椒麻堂会》更进一步，直接卸去伪装，用最不真实的布景，最荒诞的形式，讲了一个最真实的故事。邱导不煽情，情感处理克制，却让我观影途中两次落泪。“高蛋白”令人印象深刻。或许，现实生活从来都比酆都里的牛鬼蛇神魔幻得多。
三星半，非常振奋人心的风格尝试，导演的画家身份使其实现了一种以几乎反电影的方式出发的调度，不只是很大程度地取消深焦调度，画面中人物和背景的透视关系也无时不被导演操纵着，于是形成了一种扁平化的，散点透视移步换景的，东方式的视觉空间。而演员在这样空间中的立体在场，则创造出了一种诡异的“德国新即物主义”般的扭曲观感。这种人物空间关系在电影前部和叙述主题高度契合，那是皮影戏台般的历史舞台：三维的“人”无法在一个意识形态及政权斗争主导的二维世界中找到存活空间，于是被挤压，被流放，而当戏子进入戏班，他们则通过一种主动扁平化的方式为自己觅得了偏安一隅，电影动人的幻梦体验全部来自于此。但很可惜也很奇怪的是，中国的创作者好似永远无法逃脱集体叙事的宿命，使电影最终令人沮丧而后几近厌恶地，滑入了陈旧迂腐的窠臼。
老扎终于为我们粉丝圆梦了，只不过后续应该不会再有了
三小时无尿点。全部素人演员，舞台剧的表现形式，卷轴开幅的拍摄方式。色彩，音乐，都有一种恰到好处的感觉。但最精彩的莫过于剧本。其实邱炯炯自述拍的就是家里人的故事，没有真正所谓的剧本。对于历史，没有态度，没有立场，只有一种家人视角的陈述。原本好奇邱炯炯一直拍纪录片，这个剧情片会讲怎么样的故事。这样就很成立了。邱总说，剧中很多演员是家人，音乐是表妹的制作。不得不叹，艺术世家再出一个艺术家，可以随随便便“无师自通”以及“触类旁通”，干起活来常常可以花小钱干大事，（戏说）这真是一种出生以及起点的不平等呀 😂。另外，要大赞眼力架百分的制作方。众筹，也真希望能成为中国独立电影未来的一条光明大道。艺术是什么，什么样的环境成就什么样的艺术，电影也用戏中戏与历史的故事多多少少抛出了这个永远无法完结的讨论吧。
审美的独特性毋庸置疑，但还是形式远远大于内容了。
和公映版有质的不同，但是一帧都不舍得删，反而让影片变得冗长，难以保持专注。总的来说，是一部8分的电影，但不宜过誉。
3.5 新瓶挺好看 但新瓶装老酒怕不是老又老 被看模式下没有悲只有苦 有必要重复诉苦么…又不是祥林嫂 （可能是我期望太高😰？
慢镜慢镜，绿屏绿屏，也只有nickcave和片尾哈利路亚真的触动到了我，另外就是超人复活的惊为天人🙈🙈🙈
南特三大洲电影节 非常非常惊喜的观影 少给的一星是话剧形式扣掉的
看之前：四小时？太长了吧！看完后：没看够！（我爱死那个自带远古bgm的amazon女人了（the flash好可爱啊力挽狂澜！
离合悲欢忘川渡
三个钟头过去了，
比复联好看，既然复联8.5，这个只能9了，
#南特三大洲#很奇特的观影经历，天马行空，却又落入实处，才气逼人的作品。陌生化，戏剧化，荒谬化的表达，但稍稍有点长，一度分神，也充斥着过多符号，信息量负载过大。
新戏从来演旧事。
扎导剪辑版虽说在时长上有点无法控制，但在完整性与完成度上是几乎接近于完美的超级英雄电影，看得出每个角色的塑造都是经过精雕细琢的，每个人物的情感变化都无比顺畅，每个故事都完整无缺。与此相比，特效上的不足却显得不那么重要了。另外再说到画面与画幅的话，扎导滤镜不用说有多么受人喜爱了，4:3画幅更是锦上添花，所以“此生遗憾”便是不可能在IMAX影院看到这部片子了。
年轻导演青胜蓝，
4个小时的内容是足够丰满了，除了动作戏不是很满意之外，每个英雄该表现的都表现了，这点比起走过场的剧场版实在好的太多。
有的看就满足了。不过正联里面明明应该拍老爷和大超主CP才对，不要坏规矩诶：）
三星半。不懂DC宇宙，只是很喜欢蝙蝠侠和阿卡姆那帮疯子。听闻小丑会出现，也怀着导剪版理应更加黑暗的预期，算是期待已久。前两个小时比较无聊，叫荒原狼的牛头人四处乱打的时候我又睡着了，老戈登出来开蝙蝠灯才提了个神。众人集结后开始好看一点，除了海王不知有什么用，其他人算是各显神通默契了一把，但也没脱出爆米花超英片的格局。群侠传式的超英联盟片为什么不好看呢，我觉得大概在于既然英雄力量倍增，反派就也能奔着外星人毁灭地球去以凸显极恶。但这些外星人长得又丑、品味又差、想象力还匮乏，只知道蛮力一通乱砸，阿卡姆随便出来一位做反派，都比他们会讲话有风格。人的故事才好看。好在最终总算有一个风格暗黑的尾声提气，虚焦里小丑拈着纸牌，在老爷不堪回首的往事上反复横跳，似乎又选择与他们一起对抗黑化超人。这是我期待的DC故事
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