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."
剑心让人心疼，雪代巴让人心碎……喜欢剑心二十年了，如今终于等来一个堪称完美的句号！再见了，剑心！
我小时候吧，一直觉得如果扮演漫画里那些形象的话应该对照真实世界应有的模样来，漫画那样只是夸张化了日常的头发。长大了点接触了Cosplay，觉得那些假毛太假了，为什么要完全还原那些铁皮刘海厚重发片，不是应该转化成日常样子么。然后看了这个片子，这才是我想象中，真人扮演漫画角色的妆发应有的样子啊
追忆篇其实就是用来丰满剑心这个人物的，用他背负的过往来营造悲情浪客的形象，同时也作为他觉醒的一个转折。开头的杀阵还是很精彩的，动作干净利落，后面他和巴的情感线缺了些层次，尤其巴这个人物没有表现出复杂矛盾的感觉，如同一头陷入斯德哥尔摩症候群的样子，洼田正孝太苦了也，像是一个不愿死的龙套在演绎八百万种死法。
很多画面算神还原了，剑心的悲剧故事也提现了出来。当然不能与动画对比，无论是感情的刻画、画面的氛围、故事的叙述、情节的张力都比不上，但从真人电影角度已经非常难得了。村花对雪代巴的演绎也算很不错了，只是，刚刚看完她在《花束般的恋爱》中吐槽强行漫改真人电影，转身就来演绎动漫人物，真的让人很不适应……
只能再次感叹，还是追忆篇的故事最好看，还有佐藤健选的太好了。
桂先生笑着问巴, 能不能照顾绯村,"只用假装就好", 然后巴沉默了
浪客剑心电影版的存在充分证明昭和剑戟片与传承大河剧在漫改就是乱改的日下还有回血的空间
却被拍成了这样
动画是我人生第一次斥15块巨资买的VCD套装，图情怀看的，但是同样都是闷闷的慢腾腾的，我却怎么也看不下去真人版额。纯妹侧面神像雪代巴，但是正面那两坨刘海也太厚了吧，佐藤健嘛，我一直代入不了他是剑心。调色太冷色太暗了，雪地那个蓝色看着怪怪的。
我也幻想着人人安居乐业，处处繁荣昌盛，可惜我只是一个凡人。这一部升华了剧情。不在是一部普通的漫改武侠片。
看完心中有两个我在挣扎，作为影迷的我认为针不戳，打斗和情感戏的处理比正传好太多，武指依旧在线，村花的巴在各种镜头加成下也总算比武田咲有存在感了，但！是！作为漫迷的我实在是不能忍删了那么多重要的剧情，导致最后的雪地诀别少了很多情感铺垫，几场关键的决斗也都是草草带过肥肠不爽，但是没办法，只能默默安慰自己，电影是二次创作，二次创作……
观感系列最差。能明显感觉到导演想在质感上与前几部做出区别，削弱漫画质感。但问题在于，这个系列一旦没了漫画感，所有的情节也好，人物也好，都是站不住的。有村架纯也并不适合这个角色，影像也一股子横店味儿。最关键的是，动作戏也太少了吧！
2.5
对于整个浪客剑心属于传说的开始，如果奔着凌厉的动作去的朋友可能要失望了，这段主要讲情，讲剑心如何成为剑心。有点感叹，再帅的人的抵御不了时光的冲击。
如果没有追忆片ova珠玉在前，还可以说是及格以上优秀未满，现在只能深刻感受到次元壁的存在。和演技无关，真人确实做不来动画里的面无表情不动声色，强行面瘫只会显得人很呆滞。电影也难以还原动画里日常慢悠悠的节奏。巴的选角是堪比葛薇龙一般的败笔，有村扮相上努力向清冷美人靠近了，但她身上的钝感力和马思纯有一拼。雪代巴是油尽灯枯苦苦支撑的最后一点微光，有村生命力还是太强，你看着她的后脑勺都能想象她脸上的温和表情。片里唯一不出戏的角色是桂，连剑心都像郭靖上身，还是李亚鹏版的。最后，是谁给冲田总司整了个凌乱月代头啊！有仇吧！
最后雪地里战损的场景凄凉又唯美 拉高了整部片的水准
但其他方面都不错，特别画面感很好，而且正常刀看着比逆刃舒服多了
影片实际是整个系列的前传，本片终于补完了系列中情感戏的缺失，在动作戏方面则引爆剑戟片的高光时刻、突破布林线上轨直接跳开涨停。面对、理解、承认、处理、放下，死亡与宽恕（爱）的两刀汇成的十字疤伴随着刽子手拔刀斋的成长与退隐成为江湖传说。影片结尾完美衔接9年前的第一部，形成闭环。佐藤健与绯村剑心的相互成就轶事亦是一段佳话（这厮与张震、彭于晏类似，对于角色塑造的执著精神堪称典范）。《浪客剑心》真人版系列璀璨落幕，在腥风血雨的幕末时代中绽放的初心之花终归迎来了自由盛放的幸福。“男人因何而战？”--守护。
整体氛围感爆棚，佐藤健老了反而更忧郁了，下颌线美飞了，「我唯一不会杀的人就是你」是我听过最厉害的表白。村花和高桥小哥都不太适合古装，显得脸大又滑稽。反派也太惨了，搞得像什么很厉害的地下组织，结果就那么几个手下，大boss死得实在有点冤，远不如饼哥来得刺激。十年了，The beginning is the end is the beginning.
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