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."
它的恐怖只有女性能懂。除了变态跟踪狂以外、丈夫的无视、无意间的玩笑、同理心的缺失更令人生气。女主像amber和罗南的结合体。
故事和呈现只能到3星，额外的一星是给劳模姐的表演。劳模姐演得比加菲好，但是故事呈现得太平浅了。
看完对Tammy Faye还挺佩服的…劳模姐值得影后！
片子对于中国人来说真的有点水土不服。劳模姐这次冲奥成功，大概学院真的超爱这种LGBT的传记电影，另外大概就是竞争对手太拉胯。电影从两个信教的年轻男女开始讲起，他们乘上70年代美国电视业爆发的东风，干起了电视传教募捐的工作，自信的加菲说，我们赞美主电视网2000万观众，远超其他媒体。就这样从发迹，到奋斗，到膨胀，最后被陷害入狱，可以说流水账一样记述了这么个故事。至于说塔米菲的眼妆为什么越来越重，故事背后的隐藏线索过于简单，甚至是她怎么精神发生转变，怎么从家庭和工作地位中的配角，翻身成为引领新风向的先锋，也没看出来。大概一个保守的虔诚信教者，转身成为LGBT的叛逆者，加州学院就喜欢这种类似风尘女子从良的故事？？至于这个转变，难道是从嗑药开始的？？？那么中国观众就别跟着参乎了。
故事的内容一般，似曾相识。不过最后的子弹很解气，男友的固执和成见差点酿成大祸。女人的直觉真心是个很准的东西。变态佬选的好，一看就是个变态猥琐男，只是隐藏的太深，这个反向报警也蛮厉害的
3.5 演的真不错，剧情不知所云，可能怕冒犯吧
secret cinema blablabla 3.5每個人物都unlikable ，服化道佳
塔米菲的眼睛不论是成片和寓意都数十倍秒杀斯宾塞了 表演更是没得说 英国皇室那点事演来演去也就那样 远不如宗教社会性丑闻更有发掘的价值和新意了
Tammy Faye精准捕捉了camp的精华 如果有christian drag这一category she‘s the queen then
可以说颁奖季到目前看过最差的电影，拍得太细碎了，只能给1-2🌟剩下的星星全加给劳模姐，看到最后竟然对这个神婆产生了一丝同情。
语言障碍下的异域、陌生与孤独，男女主角间的隔膜，并非是爱情关系的破裂，而是这一细腻与敏感的体验，这一异域语境下被放大了的细腻与敏感的体验，男主事业的蒸蒸日上和丰富的人际关系，而与之相对的是初来驾到的女主，需要重新开启的未知的事业，陌生的空间、语言以及人际关系，繁忙与孤独，熟悉与陌生，两者的相异与相对性，使其彼此逐渐疏离构成距离感。
That’s why we need to ban 传销.
感觉他们两个能成功募集到那么多钱就是一个巨大的骗局....
Jessica Chastain的演技几乎是唯一亮点，但这个点有点过于亮了，两小时内让你从wtf到aww到tired到admired到hate到pity的态度里反复横跳却仍然是同一个tammy faye~
这个电影除了让劳模姐封后就没其他作用了，故事和情绪都是断裂的，这个很像19年的朱迪，但是完全没有那个传达地有效。啊，还是恭喜劳模啊，好喜欢她～
氛围不错，女主身处异国他乡的焦虑感，窥视者直到最后二十分才露面，但后续收尾简直是狗屁，男友、女邻居、警察毫无作用，本来就小成本惊悚片，还都是纸片人，玩蛋呢？麦卡·梦露和伯恩·戈曼演得都不错，白瞎。
202227 完全冲着奥斯卡影后劳模姐去看的 前半部分觉得演技没看出来值得影后奖杯 后半段好几处真的发自内心的赞叹 奥斯卡影后终于被劳模姐摘得，且实至名归！不过我还是要吐槽：为什么好多拼命三娘拿奥斯卡影后好难，自我牺牲太大，比如劳模姐、olivia colman 而有些人明明得奖的片子演的很一般却可以拿影后，比如艾玛斯通、大表姐
但是劳模姐演的太好了，从头到尾的纯真以及时不时的神棍感，强打精神的咯咯笑，以及没人倾诉的落寞，太出色！看来要补补她的戏了。
这部电影没把塔米说清楚什么人，但是劳模姐的表演让我对原型人物更感兴趣了。
很喜欢这种歌颂女性力量的电影。很喜欢劳模姐。
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