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."
不懂 两个相爱的人明明有机会在一起就是不在一起 希望短发女主能再遇到一个女生好好得相爱
如果是在电影院看这一部，会听见整齐划一最姬情的一声惊叹。
虽然在屏幕前，我也在吐槽李芯悦的迷惑行为，但看完后冷静想想，也能理解她，很真实，毕竟不是每个啦啦都能勇敢出柜的，牵绊太多。这部剧呈现出这么多，还能被我们看到，实属不易了，必须支持。
因为我不想失去你这个朋友。
两星给漂亮耐看的两位女主演 两星给唯美的亲密戏 这部电影把校园感情拍得很美好很清纯很青春 只是情节安排有点欠妥当 中译名我不太理解什么意思 反而英译名会更贴切 感觉李芯悦一直在给李咏蓝无望的希望 也许是一直处于匮乏的环境让她失去了对抗风险的勇气 弟弟妹妹在前面没有交代 葬礼才出现多少让人有点摸不着头脑 还有李芯悦母亲和李咏蓝大学男友这两个人物过于蜻蜓点水 电影整体就是给人一种淡淡的感觉 好像快要感悟出什么的时候又被轻轻带过了 最后 李咏蓝实在太惨 像这样的拉拉不是少数 让我更加难过了
谁跟我说女一带着女二逃婚的。 看下来两人之间还是有化学反应的。 再接再厉。
看到了一些致敬同性片的影子，有点理想化的拉拉唯美爱情片。看到热评说的因为父亲说的那句话打了一星，我觉得她应该是搞错了情节的立意，现实中很多男性确实就是那么想的，也正是家庭有这样的观点也间接造成了女主的结婚。挺小清新的，但影片质量有限。
- 古典音樂、配樂運用極差
故事裡年少時無憂無慮的愛大概都沒有什麼刻骨銘心的事 也許更多只是朋友以上日日夜夜的陪伴 「永遠的好朋友」 儘管當刻在操場上能衝動（鼓起勇氣？）「動地驚天愛戀過」 又敵不過下一刻的悔過書 莫名 成長後的漸行漸遠最後（成熟有禮又扎心的客套地）送上祝福才是真實的距離
香港电影毫无吸引力，还停留在90年代。替你们惋惜，一直拿着以前的荣耀吃老本，现在一地鸡毛！可能现在只有自己人拍给自己人看了。
BE，万年BE，如果不BE确实不深刻。两人的家境 确实会导致两人对青春期这段刻骨铭心的感情有不同的感受，泳蓝选择原地踏步，而心悦早已move on。电影前30多分钟疯狂发糖，我就知道后面有多虐，不过有些剧情有点让我迷惑，有点故意，比如我感觉床戏就大可不必了，虽然没啥，但总感觉有些过了；操场拥吻我着实没想到，很不错；有很多迷影梗，阿飞正传的哥哥和曼玉的经典场景，蓝宇的电视背景音，这些迷影梗都挺让我惊喜的；就是有些场景有些刻意，讲真像拍mv，不过我倒是很喜欢两女主和父母之间的戏
让前女友当自己的伴娘到底是啥心态啊？？？？
很drama又很真实，瑕疵也很多的电影。谈善言好美演的好好啊。剧情真的有点无力吐槽，前半段很不错后半段好像有点莫名其妙。特别是最后结婚那一趴..新郎好惨🤕雨中的篮球场真的很美很勇敢，全片最佳。
补一句不正经的评价：麦家琪演这样一个妈就离谱…
1⃣️人生有太多来不及告别的。2⃣️两个人有共同的过去，却不一定有共同的回忆。有3⃣️几段还蛮无聊的，但有些又很有趣。4⃣️一直都是芯悦比较勇敢，帮咏蓝承认带手机、雨中在操场激吻、被让写检讨书却并不想承认错误…但是为什么坚持到最后的却是咏蓝呢？婚礼上，悦给蓝戴上戒指的那一幕，我觉得我的心都碎了…5⃣️你离开后，我活成了你的样子。
譚sir的學生的作品，香港新生代女性導演未來可期。但真的，後面一小時一直快進。
我好像曾经想跟你去更多地方，可是我只会嫉妒别人，我还是觉得你那么特殊，那么珍贵。你已经变成了我心中角落里的陈酿，舍不得真的喝一口，总是去闻闻香味。
刚看完的时候不觉得有什么，然而看完之后的几个小时内心迅速发酵。后劲儿太大了。
如果导演想探讨的是，两个人有共同的经历，是不是就代表有一样的回忆
这也太好看了吧，灯光和配乐有点儿拉，剧情和场面调度的小细节也太惹人爱了吧，又是蓝宇又是阿飞正传，拥抱背景是十字架的背德文学，两人情感拉锯，外界冲突矛盾，都很到位呀；结局有点儿难以接受，太悲伤太扎心了吧，不如给个现在的剧情，就像刻在我心底的名字那种；拉片真的太少，但这一部真的不错，冲突再尖锐一点点更有味道，喜欢。
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