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."
为了迁就午休时间，后期1.5倍速看完，但还是被屠杀那part惊艳到，手法太干净利落了，招招致命不需要补刀。
《刺客信条之双生杀手》
這不就是《白髮魔女傳》裡面的姬無雙嘛。而且為什麼不找當年強姦自己母親的人報仇，卻殺一堆無辜的人呢
这么有趣的剧本，最后自圆其说。这很温子仁。我觉得很精彩，终究是姐妹情，难怪之前放过了妹夫。警察局那段杀人戏太酷了，“我报警干嘛，应该先医生啊”
新变种人+走近科学
我觉得这片俗套又难看，跟我一起看的室友：温子仁真的是个天才！人类的悲欢并不相通。
溫子仁最高
肿瘤侠是准确翻译，最后野鸡奖杯乱杀和凤凰对天启可以比毒液还酷，但开场就揭秘的纯物质人为直接把恐怖感降到PG，小妹独闯生化危机古堡像是剪掉了90%，虽然女主很漂亮阴暗版Felicity Jones，“律师”男主也是数一数二的华裔脸阿祖收手吧
温子仁版《姐妹情仇》，硬伤不少，制作也有些敷衍，不过把它当成B级片来看倒是还能接受就是了
我的天 这让我想起走近科学里有一期类似的 没那么极端 但那是第一次知道寄生胎
这个反转就是换个花样的精神分裂，虽然剧情是在鬼扯，但也算是把老花样玩出了新意。最后监狱和警局的那两场杀人戏，难怪有人吐槽是刺客信条，不过确实拍得挺好看的。作为恐怖片我不推荐，但作为动作片我推荐。差点忘了温子仁也是个水平不错的动作片导演。
大略看了看自己的觀影記錄 突然明白每週一百多頁的閱讀同學都看完了可我覺得每天都讀了但真就讀不完是為什麼 哈哈哈
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后半程情绪完全被调度起来了，而且结尾并没有走向神神叨叨的未解之谜，这个解释，我服！虽然不知道删了什么，还是别看爱奇艺的删减版吧
我觉得至少7分吧，故事很精彩啊，可能因为温子仁导演大家期待值比较高，也因为大部分人可能看的是爱奇艺删减版。前半集的确稍显温吞也不够恐怖，但gabriel身份揭开的瞬间还是看的我虎躯一震，可惜的是最高能的点出现早了点。最后一直蹲一手小反转结果就结束了…
前半段是熟悉的温氏鬼屋，构筑丰富的空间层次，让鬼怪从暗处强势出击。后半段《走近科学》大忽悠大反转，全盘科学解释，所以去掉血腥画面可以进国内院线。被诟病的是，双生畸胎是太过老套的设计，细节也没有任何惊喜。女主能力爆表，说是新的超英电影《磁感侠崛起》也毫不违和。
变身后一人屠一警察局，还能控制电流是怎么个设定，没得解释啊。
邪恶二重身是一个古老的主题，至少可以追溯到化身博士，但诡谲别扭的「倒行逆施」对我来说仍然充满新奇感与冲击力，尽管在如何「杀死/击败」二重身方面，电影的选择可能显得偏于保守了。
电影的恐怖氛围比较少，前面有点吓人，后面习以为常，故事从肿瘤侠漫画简介设定来看已经改了很多，很多配角都是工具人，比如结局Madison和Sydney拥抱，母亲Serena May在一旁笑时，我一直想着Kekoa Shaw警探还活着吗。
James Wen时隔五年重新指导了一部新的恐怖电影，不再是作为制片而是导演的身份。光这一点就足够吸引人，故事前期还是James经典的房间恐惧那一套，后期就开始放飞，变成了血浆飞溅的恐怖片。一场从牢房一直打到警察局的戏码很是过瘾，让人看着格外舒畅。故事有很多地方都有中古世纪铅黄电影的痕迹，而且电影的主要梗还是身体恐怖那一套，整体表现还是很好的。其中一个俯视镜头还印象挺深，也算拍出一些不一样的东西。20211002
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