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."
人终其一生都难活的通透，可我们依旧要在这条路上不断成长
说是小偷家族的劲没过去吧，对也不对，因为聊道德边缘的人性本来就是是枝裕和的重要戏码，不过个人也的确觉得非亲缘犯罪集团这种戏码有点多~~~另外韩语和韩国社会背景，个人觉得有点膈应，奇怪了，之前“真相”的法语环境我觉得还行，换成韩语和韩国这杂乱的环境我怎么都觉得这口气顺不过来呢，是枝裕和的电影语言就算搭配再不可言喻的内容我总觉得是温柔平缓的，这乱糟糟的韩式环境我适应不良。以内容来讲，这里的道德困境是应该是抛弃孩子的合理出发点，可是涉及韩国社会背景非常淡，就很难有更多的触动，费半天劲也无法共情，然后就被这个结尾给打败了，就突然觉得浪费脑细胞。
尼古拉斯凯奇演得尼古拉斯凯奇可真像尼古拉斯凯奇。
3.5，确实是一次平庸的自我重复，对于底层逻辑相当残酷的是枝裕和，所有角色也都前所未有的善良，但仍旧有打动我的一些设计和表演。 @望京电影资料馆
恭喜是枝找到名利密码！首先一定是一个拼凑的“家庭”，其次这些人一定在做某种程度上违法并违背道德之事，但更重要的是他们一定会做出某种“道德高于法律”的“温情”决定，从而集体完成对自我的救赎。这种事情做多了就会显得拙劣。是枝太善于遮蔽真实的苦痛，营造出一种tenderness的摇篮来进行麻醉。宋康昊的那张存在主义大脸我是真的看腻了遭不住。再次恭喜戛纳见证了一位优秀文本生产者的死亡🎉
而我看得些许无聊……
Nick Cage是不是可以站上演员肺活量之巅了。
把好莱坞的做作拿出来嘲笑一番，但嘲笑的方式有点奶头乐
制作精良的刺激喜剧，基本上每个情节都控制地成熟而精准，属于猜得到但乐得一看的cliche，或者说是一个机智的美国风格niche。打斗枪战场景轻量化但不失精彩，这才是飙肾上腺素的正确姿势。拿着酒杯坐进夜晚泳池，巨大的海岛阳台在下雨，崎岖小城和黄沙漫漫的海边悬崖，让人无限回忆起吕克贝松的big blue。本来觉得Sharon阿姨表演拘谨不够狂野，直到看到Barbara from Santa Barbara吼着嗓子出来我才拍腿长叹。Javi走下卡车，发现女友也跳下了车，马约卡的海风吹起她的头发，那一瞬间我觉得，她是裴淳华……
杀人判三年也是够轻的。今天汇率一千万韩元兑51000人民币。
大恶中的微善，让人性走在钢索上，不得不佩服是枝裕和的开发能力，是他信手拈来的题材和故事。不较真的话，从创作角度是极高的得分，群戏实在太难写了。。。
400万韩元才2万多块，我真的震惊了。世界上哪里有那么多有爱心的人把别人的孩子当亲生的养。这个世界上的善意还是太少了。
非常日系风格的作品，没想到宋康昊会凭此片拿奖。虽然以往很多角色都能稳拿🌚就整体表演和故事都很平庸吧，背带裤小男孩到是很亮眼
别名：《不能承受之重的“帕丁顿熊2”》；这是拍给“大牛逼”【凯奇】的铁杆粉丝的电影；电影中【帕斯卡】饰演的“真爱粉”角色演绎的最棒 … 化学反应浓烈！
#Cannes2022 哇就活生生把我气笑了就, thank you for being born是我听过最可笑的台词，“与其让一个孩子痛苦的活着这个世界上为什么要把他生下来”，被美化的选择和结局就算对于电影来说也太理想化了。我看不到一行五人的情感连接，两人所谓的摩天轮感情线也莫名其妙。IU的表演就像是一直在找美丽角度拍MV，我看不到character arc的变化。
看完预告片后满怀期待，看完正片后稍许失落，这个时代变了，不是20年前那个各行各业皆是天才的年代，那个时候导演，剧本，演员皆天才，球星，歌手，漫画家一个个的才华横溢，现在再来看，全是扶不起的阿斗，电影行业如此，其他行业都一个怂样！
1.剧本不如2019年的《真相》，但依然十分的是枝裕和，有点趋近于今敏的《东京教父》。是枝裕和的电影突出人性的善面，掮客，小偷在他的电影都能如此温暖。2.姜东元和李知恩俊男美女搭配真的很亮眼。演技也是过得去的水平。裴斗娜的角色虽然没有闪光点，但是依然贡献了非常出色的演技。揉拭花朵的那一幕太美了。3.感动和立意都是有的，台词里出现了“同性恋人”，所以是枝裕和有打算拍同性电影吧！评分：8.0/10。
这个概念无疑是好的
终究是韩味很足，嫁接在是枝裕和的日式温情上还是显得怪怪的，但更大的问题是人物及相互关系设计的潦草，对婴儿箱与背后体制问题的挖掘也浅尝辄止。尽管也不乏洗车、摩天轮这样是枝裕和式的亮点，终究难以为观众构建完整的共情曲线，也使得最后的结尾完全沦为理想化的童话故事。
是枝裕和还是那个是枝裕和，就是韩味冲天，我接受无能
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