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."
刻意的台词、造作的情节、琐碎的人物，这是我对本片的总结。
1. 七连第一次遇到美军在石头上静静趴着
没有故事，没有故事，满屏的爆炸，满屏的爆炸，满屏的飞机，满屏的飞机，满屏的丢炸弹，满屏的丢炸弹，满屏的坦克，满屏的坦克。吊儿郎当的万里是个败笔，多余的人物，多余的人物。
哭的emo了……太好哭了呜呜看着美军飞机来了就感觉好绝望但是先辈们绝不放弃把战争打赢了。只能说勿忘国耻，牢记历史
铭记历史。无论是场景还是演技都没得说，近年来最好最真实的战争片。展示的不光是英雄主义，战士们也是会怕的。很真实。
看完电影后又去翻看了导演幕后特辑，三者的分工与预想的比较接近：林超贤主攻战争及宏大特效，徐克承担细节处的特技设计，陈凯歌负责文本及历史叙事。而三者的存在感与贡献值成正比：林>徐>陈。预料到了本片在文本层面的薄弱，但还是没想到其文本竟然蹩脚到了如此令人吃惊的地步。当所有叙事元素都极其显著地化身为功能主义部件时，一切主题表达都是轻浮、乏力、无味，因为人们似乎不仅可以预料到某个元素的出现，还可以预料到它出现的意义，甚至可以预料到它为什么会出现这样的意义。回顾历史固然重要，但太多处理又显得极度不真诚。近几年主旋律电影的一个大问题：普通话中心主义。这种语音层面的统摄完全宰制了历史至少在一些最基础事实上的自发性，时间的厚度被抽走了，只剩当下的政权“大他者”无时无刻不在发出证明自己在场的迫切和焦虑的声音。
昨天刚想看暴风雪山庄推理，今天就看到一个类似的。就是推理有点拉跨。张本煜确实是万合天宜最会演戏的，柯达感觉只能演丑角，网大感丢不掉
典型的万合天宜出品，张本煜的表演比较出彩，希望他能多演外戏
以前的剧本杀是从电影里扒剧情 现在的电影是从剧本杀里扒剧本了
看过25日首映。感觉就是震撼感动！不剧透，大家都去看吧！我可以保证你看完觉得值回票价！千玺演的真好，年少有为👍👍
编剧这角色有监制韩寒的影子，台词也映射了一些现在（不一定能被看明白）。有局中局，环套不够深，表演一般，算是近几年比较好的华语悬疑片了。【同为监制的我 惭愧啊】
以前一直不理解为什么他们宁愿放弃生命也要追求胜利，后来慢慢明白了，他们的背后是人民，他们的心中有信仰，他们敢于面对第一强国发起冲锋，只为建设自己理想的国家。
题材很好，武戏太差，音乐想强行煽情，叙事逻辑勉强
家里老人参加过抗美援朝，小时候就常听那时候的故事，听说拍了相关的电影，一直很期待，趁着假期去贡献了一下票房，整场看下来，说实话有点失望，篇幅真的太长了，看下来好累，关键剧情撑不起来这个时长，衔接的不够好，可能是我期望太高了吧。
我失望的是这么恢弘壮美的历史被拍成了一部中规中矩的普通战争片。
《长津湖》全片时长近3个小时，全篇都是讲战争，美帝主义万恶不赦。
是我魔怔了，怎么感觉在里面听到了几个武林外传样子的梗。
感人的是历史，是献身的人民。电影拍的实在一般。这么大制作，能不能把有的布景做的真实一点。
这就是长津湖战役，我们的先辈与当时美军各方面的悬殊差距，看到雷爸喊疼说不要留下他自己最后死去的片段时，更深刻的感受了什么是前仆后继，电影或精彩或激烈或好笑的片段很多，但让我始终紧张和恐慌的，是那未休止的枪炮声和美军飞机的呜呜声，试想下我只是坐在影院里听声音就对炮弹爆炸、美机不时的轰炸而惊慌和害怕，揪着的心从未放下，那当年那些踏上战场，真真切切面对战争的祖祖辈辈们又该有怎样怎样怎样我们想象不到的经历和感受。
近两年从金刚川，到1950，到长津湖。这次感触最深。外公也是19岁上的现场，也会怕疼，也会调皮，也会想家。
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