剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 隽姣丽 7小时前 :

    买凶杀人,杀人灭口,

  • 谈英逸 5小时前 :

    又一部印度神片。现实主义题材,话题涵盖我们所关注的所有问题:性别歧视、学术权力滥用、操控媒体、程序正义、全民性的愤怒,格局由小及大,最后与每个人息息相关。

  • 馨莲 0小时前 :

    法理和人情的平衡永远摄人心魄,尤其是议题还涉及女性公知,强奸,烧尸等,就更能点燃公众的愤怒和道德感。然而结果正义的前提要有基本的程序正义和事实基础。不然大众的善良就会成为被煽动的工具。印度很多影片都聚焦法律制度,种姓制度等社会议题,具有很强的社会责任感。不过影片前期的铺垫太长,前四十分钟都在铺垫学生造势和反抗热情,虽然为剧情反转蓄力,但仍然显得过于冗长,有后面紧凑的节奏会更加分。

  • 鞠丹翠 1小时前 :

    层层反转确实有些别扭,不过敢拍也是确实敢拍。

  • 格枫 8小时前 :

    连续看了几部“高分推荐”的印度神片,发现都是套路。其中之一就是一定要反转,尤其喜欢结尾反转,而且还要反转再反转。#疲乏#。另外这片电影长度如果能缩减到90或者120分钟会更好。电影过长,要批判的内容又那么多,观众没这么多#耐心#。

  • 星枫 3小时前 :

    7.9分左右。

  • 柔采 3小时前 :

    谁能想到,末世之下人工智能是因为要照顾一条狗被创造出来呢?

  • 琛萱 8小时前 :

    总有人说,印度电影可真敢拍啊,韩国人可真敢拍啊,我有点怀疑,有没有一种可能,在某些地方拍片子并不需要那么多勇气,不需要克服什么恐惧感,也不存在什么敢或者不敢,人家只是正常拍个电影而已。

  • 集笑萍 5小时前 :

    不要轻视人的创造力,更不要低估人的破坏力。(人文科幻 大抵如此 )

  • 终祺福 1小时前 :

    每次看印度电影都为这个民族感到悲哀,语言是文化的根,但印度已经丧失了语言独立性,印地语掺杂英语听着很奇怪,更奇怪的是,他们还觉得特光荣,总是嘲笑中国人英语发音。庭审过程中,为了凸显辩方律师,控方检察官和法官被塑造成傻子,导演试图通过一场庭审表达诸多东西,但很多不符合庭审规则,像是一出马戏。

  • 缪晔晔 5小时前 :

    怎么说呢,前半段节奏冗长且慢镜头铺音乐强煽情,后半段庭审的程序正义和结果正义的辩论作为引子刚调动起情绪后最终落脚点依旧还是印度自身的种姓制度和社会问题;可我转念一想,电影是作者自己的表达,而且影片反映出的难道又仅是印度独有的问题么,很多时候打高分还是电影以外的东西。

  • 鲍乐蕊 2小时前 :

    前段是《杰伊比姆》式的社会罪案题材悬疑片,但到了最后一个小时开始狂飙突进,大概一口气塞了十个热搜事件和阴谋论、五个颠覆全片级别的反转、以及超过两部电视剧的信息量。性别议题、阶层议题、教育问题、白手套、竞选阴谋论、舆论操控、复仇、政治陷害……每个主题单拿出来都能拍成佳作,就生生全部缝合到了同一部电影里。如此“敢拍”的确是值得崇敬,但这种全靠最初级的闪回和慢镜煽情拍法编织起的高密度强情节也确实是有点极端。

  • 闵琛瑞 4小时前 :

    每次看印度电影都为这个民族感到悲哀,语言是文化的根,但印度已经丧失了语言独立性,印地语掺杂英语听着很奇怪,更奇怪的是,他们还觉得特光荣,总是嘲笑中国人英语发音。庭审过程中,为了凸显辩方律师,控方检察官和法官被塑造成傻子,导演试图通过一场庭审表达诸多东西,但很多不符合庭审规则,像是一出马戏。

  • 锐湛芳 1小时前 :

    一个人、一部半机器、一条狗的公路片,伴随着生存、回忆、信任、救赎式的历程,外景很美,情节缺乏渐进式的层次而显得寡味。

  • 秦仪文 7小时前 :

    ★★★☆ 情绪电影。虽然在当前环境中起不到什么决定性作用,但能发声去表达总是好事。

  • 陆铃语 7小时前 :

    一有个热度片借着风就尬吹印度,挺符合豆瓣没见过世面的部分文青的日常行为准则。就庭审那段,三本院校的法律系公开课做的都比那专业。高赞还吹捧其电影业的发达程度……

  • 歆桃 6小时前 :

    同样是发展国家,同样问题重重的印度给出了答案。

  • 阚建修 7小时前 :

    如果纯从电影的叙事角度考虑,电影整体太过于沉闷,拖沓,叙事感比较差,得耐着性子来看,最好看的就是庭审部分。

  • 枫星 7小时前 :

    只有一个主演的电影太适合汉克斯了,没有用力的表演,但不留痕迹的把观众带入情境。杰夫和狗狗,末路也变得晴朗可爱。杰夫照镜子的瞬间,我简直看到了他内心的惊讶悸动,还有杰夫不停运动的双手,及时表达出他的情绪,天,机器多好,比人更温暖,更让人愿意信任。虽然从起动杰夫的问话开始,就能猜到结局,可是,还会让人有兴致地看他们把故事好好构建起来,坦然接受这样的设定。好吧,不要太纠结杰夫的动力及他的材质为啥那么孔武有力。真希望是个连续剧,汉克斯、杰夫、狗狗,一直在。

  • 雅采 8小时前 :

    情绪被配乐塞得很满,慢镜头多到想两倍速,探讨的议题也不新鲜(我们拍不出不代表主题很新)。这片子更多的分都是打给“片子之外的共情分”吧,片子本身没啥意思。

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