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."
看完蛮感动的。以后也要开一个全是书籍的bar！
2022.1.30 1.5韩国上映 1.28就上线了！太快了吧 因为寄生虫的关系对崔宇植蛮有好感的 还有赵震雄 厉害 我只能说这片设计的是真的精妙 源于优秀的故事原著 以及完美的剧本 故事真是异常的精彩 只是不知道为啥豆瓣评分会越来越低..这样优秀的佳作7.5分起码的吧。。但我也没完全看懂 毕竟我现在理解能力大不如前了 崔宇植是真的帅没想到他和赵震雄搭档的居然这么默契 简单说就是一个靠外部黑帮提供所谓的“赞助金”位于灰色地带的警察 屡次立功被监察部门盯上了让男主调到他的部门去监视他 但中间突然被监察部门抓去审问 就被组里的成员发现了孤立他(他是男主爸爸之前的手下) 他们有个组织就是依靠赞助商提供的钱去抓犯人 但后面发展成了一个腐败组织 最后通过钓鱼执法抓到了一笔大的毒品走私
改编自被称为警察推理巨作的同名日本小说？？不是漫改？男主选的太嫩了，跟个弱鸡似的，行为也跟弱智一样
上了名校也依然不能摆脱命运，只能靠运气写书，多少有点理想派天真，原来美国也是只有读书改变命运的现状。
这部电影可能更多的意义是提供了回忆录视角：如果当下已经足够难堪，何不回头遥看来时的人们如何珍视。大本最后一幕戏就像他在《心灵捕手》里一样动人。“不要回来”。
3星半，赵震雄就是缺个好剧本，这部电影内容其实可以更丰富一点，大胆一点。
冲着赵震雄来看的，实在太差。整个故事都太假，稚嫩的崔宇植也完全撑不起角色，实在忍不了快进看完
也算观影多年的老油条了，没想到被这个导演密集的台词/抖动的镜头/压迫的音效/以及演员的好表演唬得一愣一愣的。也来不及去想咦这个地方好像不太对劲，观众被巨大的信息量追着往前赶。时而觉得有违和感时甚至还自我检讨是不是因为自己不太了解韩国的警察系统😂 很好，剧情如果弱就用装模作样的形式感来烘托，这样似乎也能让观众得到紧凑的两小时观影体验😂
装腔作势了半天，剧情混乱到无法收拾，最后强行反转几下也没翻身
大熊真的天生为这种角色而生的呜呜呜呜真的好帅！！！！
Tye长这么丑了？
本土化很成功的一部韩剧，大道理讲的也不错 亦正亦邪，事实是几人能做到。快别标了。不过 赵震雄一出来，剧情立马了解了大半。剩下就看怎么加菜了。
一喝酒就要造孽，就不要喝酒。
警察兄弟会是很好的设定，应该两代警察平行叙事。
啥节奏啊...断断续续一个星期都没看完 这么多实力派演员不应该啊
崔宇植你不会挑剧本的吗？？？这是什么老掉牙的灰色地带警察故事啊... 导演以后也避开，节奏稀烂！
装腔作势了半天，剧情混乱到无法收拾，最后强行反转几下也没翻身
kor的警匪悬疑片总是这样，警察叔叔肯定是黑的，至少也是灰的，这跟我们完全相反，两边综合一下就好了，要不然看多了真的没悬念，导演水平一般，叙事还是节奏方面有点奇怪（具体怎么形容也说不上来），小男主被捅那段真的太蠢了，如果被捅是必要情节，那能不能设计得合理一点，每次都背对着被捅真是烂梗，崔宇植娃娃脸但也三十岁了，演技还是生疏了点
这就是一部「全无亮点」的传记电影。散乱的剧情架构+毫无头绪的混剪，导致成片效果完全撑不起力求饱满的人物预设。不明白一段流水账般毫无任何波澜的成长历程究竟有什么值得拍摄的？除了「一头雾水」我甚至找不到一个更贴切的词汇来描述整体观感。不难看出好莱坞目前有多么缺少一个好的剧本，缺到投资商甚至甘愿拿钱砸在这种片子上（也是脑袋被门挤了）。大本和阿泰的演出固然很卖力，BGM也起到了还原时代的效果，但在主题不明的前提下，所有的一切都成了无用功。而且相信很多人看前看后都会和我一样有同一个疑问：J.R.Moehringer同名传记改编？他是何许人也？
差点就因为评分错过了这部电影。一部真实的电影，没有把考上耶鲁当作戏剧高潮，没有把暴打混账老爹当作救赎，也没有任何明显的结局，但我就是感受到了那股淡淡的温情，一种破茧而生的力量。从混沌中一下子找到了自己的路，重点不是那条路通向某个城堡或王座，而是找到了那条路，并且开始慢慢的走，欣赏起两边的风景。而现实中，我们经常给自己定下目标，不问自己内心是否真的想要那个目标，是否值得心无旁骛的去追赶以至于错过了很多普通又平凡的风景。真的现在目标之处时，突然感到空虚，而脑海里浮现的确是一些普通而美好的画面。
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