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."
基本复刻丹麦版，加上去的细节有些多余，全靠杰伦哈尔的演技撑住。
@ Netflix 全程关注吉伦哈尔的演技，但是前期铺垫太长，即使到最后可以知道真相，但都有点坐立不安。比起河正宇的《恐怖直播》都在一个空间内的表演，剧本上的起伏以及吉伦哈尔近几年都疯狂drama的嘶吼来比，还是觉得河正宇的更好，当然两个人的角色背景也不一样。但是看完后，还是会觉得在美国精神上受到迫害的个人以及家庭太多了，心理医生真是一个就业需求量大的好岗位。
罪人拯救罪人，神经病拯救警察。警察火气太大，杀人就是一顿脾气的事。
演技倒是不错，就是这主角又爱管自己又不上，一个劲到处指挥别人做事，脾气还大，看得好烦。太过政治正确，又在影射美国警察开枪打死黑人罪犯了么？
【一个房间，一部电话完成的影片】该电影背景设定在 911 紧急呼叫中心的一个早上。呼叫接线员乔·贝勒试图拯救一名危在旦夕的呼叫者，但他很快发现事实并非如此，而面对真相是摆脱困境的唯一办法。
由一个演员撑起的整部片。四星为吉伦哈尔演技給的。心碎人救心碎人。深呼吸
无聊压抑，一个人，一个电话，演了一个电影，电影成本只有5000美元电费钱。
断背山里的吉伦哈尔如今更加成熟了，一个人的独角戏，从开始撑到最后。把那种自以为是试图掌控一切，神经质，焦虑，还有得知反转的真相后的悔恨，认罪后的自我救赎，演绎得很有渐进层次。偶尔的近距离特写，能看到他长长浓密的睫毛，还是挺帅，略有沧桑的颜。
有趣的故事和形式，有点意料之中的反转，最后阻止艾米丽跳桥那里，表演稍微有点用力过猛
焦躁代入感满分...正义又自以为是...演技爆炸...broken people save broken people
活埋，洛克，罪人。这三部电影叙事与演员的表现真的是完美了，并且这也是相对可低成本实现度高的题材。通过大量的对白一句句将故事描绘出来，这类影片必须通过强有力戏剧冲突来调动观众情绪，这也是此类题材吸引我的地方。
喜欢这样的个人秀，纯演技发挥，没有看过丹麦原作，但并不影响观赏本片，各种配音绝了，都是超强发挥。。。
心理的变化和救赎表现的不明显，全片给人刻意的感觉，转折较生硬，可以看出导演对这一题材能力不足，又一个好故事被平庸。男主演技还是可以的。
辛苦分，和原版一样适合归到“失败的非烂片”里去。
和汤姆哈迪的一个电影洛克差不多，全程就是以对话的形式展现的影片，电话情节比较平淡不如洛克抓人，一个警察通过一通报警电话良心发现的故事，网飞现在真是什么题材都要尝试一下，不管怎么说杰克吉伦哈尔的表演还是很卖力气的。
三颗星都给老吉，整部电影都是老吉的舞台，表演课很精彩！
窒息感太强烈了，我这种急性子如果去911很难不辱骂受害人支支吾吾话说一半连哭带喘给不了任何有用信息🤜🏻吉警官情绪转换很到位，精彩的独角戏。
低成本拍摄，甚至没有一个镜头出过办公室，全听电话折磨人，显然男主是自身过失杀人，带着情绪上班当接线员，靠着不断切通话让观众脑部Henry与Emily以及他们俩儿女之间发生的事，反转啦！原来Emily有精神病。
杰克的演技一如既往优秀，本片的多次爆发戏也给他充分的自我展示空间。但面对几乎原封不动的故事，相较于原片以平淡见真章，从冷静到压抑到解脱，本片的好莱坞式三段表述还是落于下成，就像片中新增的洛杉矶大火背景，喧嚣吵闹、灰尘扑面。
总体来说完成度较高，但是我还是喜欢内敛一点的原版，这部有点太外放了，男主很多动作和表情辅助演绎情绪外露，可能先看了原版的原因吧
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