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."
20年前，当我上小学的时候，偶然看到了洛佩兹Love Don't Cost A Thing的MV，简直点燃我整个夏天，可如今我变了她也变了，可这电影的套路没变，太老套了吧！
想到当年写Pruitt-Igoe的论文，真是一个never-ending loop
万万没想到是我一个人看这个电影，故事还是蛮有意思的，女明星乱点鸳鸯点到素人数学老师，一个人在影院看也不亏。这算是美国甜宠剧吧，之前其实没看过这种类型，是被预告片吸引的。歌曲也还可以。
都过去几十年了，JLo女士还在玩《诺丁山》的梗，除了一如既往的赞叹她状态保持的好，别的真的赞不出口。马鲁玛也太帅了....！
普普通通无功无过的古老传统浪漫喜剧 歌不错 ｜为了造成转折的转折 但是结合身份来看又觉得很正常 ｜在别人答题的时候干扰竟然没有裁判的嘛 无语 小男孩太讨厌了 口区
《诺丁山》拉丁风情版，JLO倒是真的不显老，还有机会舞台表演舞蹈和献唱很多首歌曲，简直是个人才艺表演秀。要是粉丝都能在台下举个Marry Me的牌子就被明星答应结婚就好了。
有点2000年前后那些个好莱坞爱情片回魂的意思，就刻在模版里的故事曲线，也许真的过时了？J.Lo总归是魅力四射。
虽然很像为了宣传J lo专辑而拍的电影，但是最后真的很好哭😭剧情当然是很不现实的，但是一部欢乐的片子。小马儿银幕首秀还不错（或许是本色出演？）希望以后有更多的拍戏机会
靠着一股就是想看看到底能烂成什么样的信念看完了，佩服我自己~原来被蜘蛛咬了会变成蜘蛛侠，但是被蜜蜂咬了不会变成蜜蜂侠，而是糖果侠（bushi）
都21年了,害搁那讲92年原封不动的种族歧视,你美的进步青年和知识分子呢?
有点2000年前后那些个好莱坞爱情片回魂的意思，就刻在模版里的故事曲线，也许真的过时了？J.Lo总归是魅力四射。
三星半，情人节就该看这种不带脑子深究的浪漫轻喜小甜剧啊，难道非要去烧脑才满足。52岁状态真好，美翻了！歌也都好好听~ Fun fact: 据说当年因为搜索JLo outfit人太多，于是才启发创造了Google image search.
我只能说是詹妮弗洛佩兹和欧文威尔逊撑起了这部电影，如果换了弱一点的卡司，这片子顶多2星。整个故事非常非常朴实无华，几乎没有转承启合，就连最后的矛盾点都相对的弱，两个人就很顺理成章走在了一起。开头还是有点意思的，毕竟是巨星和普通素人的结合，有点《诺丁山》的意思。还有就是歌真的很好听，但是说真的，如果主演都年轻10岁，可能状态会更好点，确实是有点老了。
怎么说呢，味儿太冲了。为黑人平权的味儿太冲了，冲到导演已经没办法心平气和的讲好一个故事了
黑人恐怖片宇宙继《逃出绝命镇》和《我们》之后又一部，越来越不懂了
拍成半小时短片也许能好看点…感觉整部片的亮点只在镜子内外那几十秒。结尾甚至好笑了起来。
这种就甜甜甜的戏，无脑看就对啦…我也知道它俗套，但我现在的心情，确实是需要这样的一个甜饼。两位也是好久不见了…
其实，这片部分镜头的拍摄手法挺不错的，只是主题表达混乱且陈词滥调。片中的女评论家在看展时，已经给本片下了非常精准的评价
半百老人焕发第二春。J Lo真美啊，身材皮肤都紧致年轻，歌也超级好听。
想到了天鹅绒圆锯。关于black community，影片采用了几个有意思的意向去表达，从大都市开往旧时贫民窟的晚班列车，集聚的蜂巢..从Jordan Peele开始，关于黑人群体的自我认知的影片这几年层出不穷，但其实没有几部表达出了那种认同感，反而在熟悉的近景大都市描绘里变得疏离
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