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."
比陽光普照更喜歡。也許單純是因為我是女的，我更能理解女性。
爸爸只是一个提供精子的男人而已，女儿可以成为支撑妈妈的存在。比起阳光普照更喜欢这部，瀑布虽粗糙但更能让我共情。
剧本有点不伦不类，整体也很匠气，他镜头里的台湾和我印象中的差别很大，就我所知的平凡疫情故事也比它来得戏剧化和深刻。娃娃这几年真是热衷各种客串啊。黑泽明的电车狂拥趸真多，是冷门里的热门了…
有几个桥段很有意思。但总体我还是很不喜欢钟孟宏，感觉他的作品漂浮在人生真谛和狗血八点档之间，漂浮在煽情做作和朴素动人之间，整个让我非常不适。
还是很钟孟宏的光影和质感 王净好像文淇 消防员刘冠廷和《火神的眼泪》梦幻联动 蓝色幕布、蛇、口罩、 隔离的生活、隔绝的关系 但电影可能并没有处理好与观众之间的隔与不隔 片尾曲《抉择》值得 但最佳剧情原创剧本就一言难尽
结尾这场水坝泄洪的加强戏其实不用加的，因为“瀑布”的由来已经说明了。
前半部分有些压抑，后半部分就打得很开了顺。瀑布可以变成溪水，但无预警的泄洪也可以让水变成急流。有苦难也有自愈，放下生活里的执念，还有更多可珍惜的东西不是么。
“不要再问我‘你还好吗’，我会想办法好起来的。”整部电影都在疗愈人的情感，像是给这个乱象的世界留下一丝劫后余生的希望，会过去的，都会过去的。
贾静雯演技牛，打坏老头那段真爽，也是全片唯一轻松一点的地方。结尾处理的妙，泄洪暗示了女主角情绪的泄洪，观众两个小时观影情绪的泄洪。
在隱喻的層面做得還不夠極致，在日常生活的表現又過於呆板，可惜了一個很好的大背景下書寫家庭小故事的文本，究其原因是沒有完整統一的美學風格，大白話翻譯過來就是：沒想明白最終想要的是什麼。
「每次那个声音出现就像一台很吵杂的机器钻进我耳朵，有时它会自己走掉、很多时候它会持续很久，那是瀑布的声音。」不要问一个正从瀑布中穿行的人「你还好吗？」她自己会想办法努力好起来。原来是《阳光普照》和《第四幅画》的导演钟孟宏。这应该是我看的第一部以新冠疫情作背景的电影，从外贸公司离职的高管单亲妈妈、乖巧懂事的高三生女儿，俩母女在疫情的影响下互相扶持、走出困境。一开始以为是聚焦母女关系的家庭伦理片、放到一半觉得精神疾病母亲营造出的氛围更像惊悚片，看完之后觉得像一部难过又舒心的文艺片，难过是因为它拍得这么真实、舒心是因为它走进了我的心里。妈妈入院时温柔的女病友、卖房时正义提出买卖价格的中介经理、超市里主动邀请坐一起吃饭的女职员们，生命中出现的每一个善良的人 是让心中萦绕的瀑布声消失、回归平静的原因。
贾静雯进步明显。 不如阳光普照 更别提大佛这样的作品。 金马为了挺台湾电影疯狂捧钟 其实钟的作品并没有那么优秀。
可以给两星，但因为分数太虚高，只能给1星。剧本奇差，又是一出生活绝望片，锺孟宏每次都搞这种类似的剧本，看多了就没意思了，更何况这部的调度奇差。贾静雯表演不错，王净还是那三板斧。
钟孟宏所有作品都着力于生活的脆弱和不堪一击，想必给公司起名甜蜜生活也是种反讽。有钱的没钱的，相聚的离散的，最后都被生活之苦冲刷干净了。
隔绝台风暴雨
真就比阳光普照好，而且好的也太多了吧，尤其是开头一部分，可惜到了后面又原形毕露了。
电影的文本意向是很深厚的，但是感觉有点造成叙事的轻微断裂感！ 视角难得放置在女性身份上，也是不错的片子！
前面一度以为在看鬼片…整部片子好平静、最有亮点的是卖房子那一段，还有主任也很可爱。思觉失调，第二次听到这个词了，上一次也是贾静雯的片子。
把大家对新冠的恐惧，对失业的恐惧，对离婚的恐惧逐步放大，借由蓝色瀑“布”的笼罩，压抑与逼仄让观众感同身受，这是导演耍的心机，虽然不高明但是有效。个人是非常不喜欢影片的欲擒故纵、故弄玄虚，明明应该体现的是人文关怀，影片却呈现出奇情，十分浪费观众的共情。
还是挺吃这种刨析家庭纹理的这一套，被隔离起来的大楼、母女以及游走到不同世界的人。陈以文的驾校梗忍不住以为钟孟宏也搭建起了元宇宙hh看完才会明白为什么片名这个，但愿我们都有面对“瀑布”的勇气。
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