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."
血脉是这部电影的题眼，无论是向上的，还是向下的，让一切回归真相，才是继续往前走的唯一前提。还有佩内洛普衣服上那句话，we should all be feminist，全片也是这么践行的，女的都是独立的，坚强的，互帮互助的，男的都是逃避的，怯懦的，无耻的。
平行线会相交
算是阿莫多瓦的失败之作了吧？骤然切换主题是风险很大的做法，容易显得浅尝辄止，这次感觉就没处理好。更何况转折还显得过于戏剧性。
阿莫多瓦原来喜欢遮蔽，身份套身份，在变幻中骗过死神。现在喜欢解蔽，脸归脸，土归土，厘清每个人的来龙和去脉。婴儿床前的黑白监视仪和累累白骨，同样让人胆战心惊，生死都是往彼岸的跨越。
“抱错孩子”只是一个设定，并非不能写进剧本，不至于被打上狗血的标签。佩内洛普的表演入木三分，虽然我一开始不能接受这样的谜语人操作，但还是渐渐被表演打动，看到了一个母亲纠结和痛苦的内心。对历史和战争的反省十分深刻，但情感转变有些突兀，有些许说教意味。
一流的佩内洛普，二流的阿莫多瓦，三流的掉包故事。
“有其父必有其子”，我指的是原著，嘻嘻……
五个受害男孩帮受困伙伴地狱通关的故事。之前尝试努力脱狱的每一步后面都起到了作用，很不错。
主题之间融合确实应该更自然一些，整部电影的基调在我看来应该是对真相和还原与追求，而人类的情感正是带领人类寻求真相的指引，无论是小小的家庭之中的波折还是影响了几代人的历史事件，真相不会被永恒掩埋，佩内洛普的表演很厉害，奉献了一个比起《回归》更内敛却同样坚强的母亲形象
太喜欢整部电影的色调了…温柔而美丽，就像母亲的子宫
阿莫多瓦这部文艺远＜狗血剧情，剧本毫无悬念，在每一情节都可以猜中的前提下，阿莫多瓦的母性绘写和议题仍一直勾引着我（主要是女主太好看了！！！）主线只是为了引出暗线，阿莫多瓦的《痛苦与荣耀》算是自传般的回忆个人人生，这次，作为西班牙如今最重要艺术家的阿莫多瓦“记录历史”，把其变成了超越其个人表达的重要社会责任。记录西班牙的历史。西班牙人需要知道父辈尸骨累累，也需要知道那一堆单身母亲。
然后不再动弹
狗日的年轻人，你们对历史只会回答“我从未想过这些问题”；当真相向你们露出它的一角时，你们所怀疑的仅仅是自己是否被绿了，甚至缺乏最基本的常识去理解它；你的愤怒仅限于转身离去，而你们最激烈的反抗，则仅仅是换个发型！
算是阿莫多瓦的失败之作了吧？骤然切换主题是风险很大的做法，容易显得浅尝辄止，这次感觉就没处理好。更何况转折还显得过于戏剧性。
借描写女性孕子的物理事实，透视女性眼中的不同男性（存在的意义和作用），思考父系社会的女性力量，深度挖掘了女性群体的社会遭遇和女性主义的多样性，引申到孕育人类历史的人物/女性，并由换子真相无法掩盖引出最后的“历史真相无法掩盖和篡改”的议题。
3.5。结尾略说教有点减分。但前四分之三表面波澜不惊但内在暗流涌动，剧作和人物心理刻画得真是细致。阿莫多瓦有一种信手拈来随手素描出戏剧性冲突的能力，情绪点游向高潮但故事情节却轻轻放下绝不拖泥带水过度煽情，分寸感和激荡的情感共融一炉。只能感叹大师就是大师。尽管很多缺点，但过人之处其他人就无法企及。同性戏撩得太动情了，直接被Milena Smit圈粉。看了看她的维基才意识到人物可能就是按照她设计的：当演员前，她既当过餐馆服务员，又干过家庭保姆。
阿莫多瓦的色彩和美学依然水准很高，佩内洛普还是美丽动人和自信，只是人类学考古的佛朗哥前世和两个平行母亲之间故事割裂太严重
剧本算比较合理温情的，电影有点点像小丑回魂。竹马竹马真的很好嗑
这个以各种母亲的存在为政治表达基础拗得有点牵强，且这两位母亲的一小段拉拉情更是看不懂。不过阿莫多瓦的颜色总是饱和得极端舒适，佩内洛普一点不老呢~~~~
虽然是阿莫多瓦，即便是看调度、看美术陈设都很享受，可实在是个让人提不起兴致的故事，个体和国家的两条线也没有很好的融合，更显狗血。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
