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."
“为我所用”，学着中国的程朱理学，照样也接受西方的科学，拍得是18世纪的朝鲜，但这很韩国。“在你背四书五经的时候，他们（西方）不一定又研究出了什么，又知道了什么”，如果一叶障目，只抱旧不学新，把路走窄了很容易死胡同。
入世与出世、经学与科学、义理与实证，两个人生目标逆向而行的人，终究会因共同的良知而趋于一致。韩国电影人在古代名人传记电影中拍出了现代视野。
一位是入世后的出世，一位是出世后的入世，若世间不能按所学而活，不如顺性而活。疏狂狷介之士那个年代尚有退隐之路。兹山所在是归隐，是明心见性，亦是殊途同归。
2021评分最高韩国电影top1 2022-1-16 我们终其一生忙忙碌碌到底在追寻什么？当我们在思索人生的意义，说明我们正在迷失自我。开篇兹山小屋即使在黑白画面也透出一种极致的宁静之美，阳光普照，视野开阔，空气宜人，这堪称世外桃源，虽然黑白但我心里一开始就给其绘了彩色。兹山如同围城，与世隔绝，这里的人想象外在世界的美好，而丁若铨从喧嚣的大世界来到这里，一颗出世被染不安的心得以在此安放，一切宁静而美好。师看到弟子的活力而被深深感染，弟子与当下世界融为一体，洞悉与鱼相关的一切，让师震撼好奇。师徒交换，弟子入世走出“围城”，然而外面的世界只不过是一个更大的围城而已。在那个大世界我们好像不是活自己，一切以外在物质包装的自己有一种分离感，强烈的不安，深深的迷失。再见兹山，活成原来的模样，找到自己！
太长了，印度电影有时候长是必要的，但这部长是没必要的，尤其是前面交代背景部分。老毛病吧，非要充三个小时。
这部电影还让我想到两部国产电影，一个是《让子弹飞》，张麻子上任之后伸出三个指头：我上任只办三件事，公平！公平！还是他妈的公平！另一个是《我不是药神》——这部电影火爆网络引发热议，我们真的太缺这个了！
A- 年度最佳电影，该火了。从头至尾，没有一句废话。根据真人真事改编，把警察做过所有肮脏的事赤裸裸拍出来，太一针见血了。律师太帅了，维护正义之道，不放过一丘之貉。印度是真能拍，也真敢拍。官官勾结行贿、包庇和滥用私权，把不配拥有土地不配活在世上的烂民活活打死，他们的命一文不值，死了就丢在荒郊野岭，太他妈黑暗了，惨无人道。种姓歧视就像吸了血的蚂蟥一般，永远吸附在印度人民身体里，吸干他们的血为止。重要的事情说三遍，这部电影该火了！这部电影该火了！！这部电影该火了！！！
这生而无人权的国家，这黑白颠倒的国家。种姓制度是印度最愚蠢黑暗的统治方法，可惜的是达利特人自己都不会反抗，印度教里总觉得这世吃尽了苦，下辈子才能换来幸福。好奇怪的理念，这辈子都不修，却在为渺茫的下辈子忍耐。另:印度人打人薅头发似乎是个习惯嘛
韩国人拍了一部中国电影人一直没有拍的电影。格物致知，事功能力差，君臣父子那套的阐述挺好。但这样的一部儒家传统思想和西方宗教文化相碰撞的电影由韩国人来拍，真觉得有丢孔夫子的脸。
「昌大啊，第一次听到黑山岛时，我很恐惧这名字。但是我遇到了你，一起度日，恐惧渐渐消失。原本被流放之罪而折磨消失的我那强烈的好奇心本性，再次被点燃了起来。……活成不断向上飞的鹤虽也不算坏事，但是即便身上沾满污水泥浆，也选择活得像兹山一样，虽外表看着黑暗，却生机勃勃自由自在，也未尝不是有意义的事啊。」
“之前我学了性理学，老子、庄子、西学统统都学，就是想知道人要何去何从。可我所领悟的居然没这小子对鱼的了解多，所以我不研究善变难懂的人类，要转去研究通透明净的事物，用事物来忘却我。”
质感很好，但看着就像童话，还是那句话，圣人的故事不精彩也不感人，这电影里面甚至能有好几个圣人
不管何等贫穷与落后，只要有民主制度，有反叛精神，就还有希望。
能拍这样的片子，能够正视这样的问题，比…一些地方官僚司法体系强太多。
不用说百年之前，即便是当下，也有很多人只能写自己的“玆山鱼谱”。看了一些近代史，最令人感慨的是风风雨雨之下依然坚持下来的那些人。可是，可是，道阻且长，何处求索？
【3.0】和大多数取材自真实事件的印度商业片一样过度依赖情绪煽动力，冲突几乎都是由戏剧化的镜头直给，法庭戏也全是对白推进。整体上看，剧本和拍摄都谈不上优质。钱德鲁是位令人肃然起敬的伟大的人权律师，他和他的官司值得更得章法的传记片呈现，及格分是给这个人物的。
一部绝望与希望交织的电影。
很多东西都不必要
破例给个5*吧4+1情感分，前40分钟看得有点犯困，节奏有点慢，另外这片子叙事节奏也有很多欠技巧的地方，略平了，悬念和细节都有可改进得更好看的地方。但情节真的是可以用震撼形容，就冲印度可以随意示威加司法独立这两点，也比某国强的太多。很难不让人类比雷洋案。你国不是电影不如印度，…… 再多就不说了。应该是我2021年看的最好的电影。IMDB评分有点虚高，TOP250的倒还合理，不知是怎么排的。
这也太强了吧！这辈子头一次看了三分之一就冲过来打五星了，宣发没到位吧！获奖太少了吧！（语无伦次中
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