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."
55/100 动作戏还是值得一看的，剧情的转折处理太潦草
包装爽片，拼接缝合，好俗的故事，人物也没特点，不是动作大点就能复制成功，盖不住的粗糙
美国动作片精神上完了，电影设计一点探索精神没有。
2.5星 后部分女主的复仇和人性觉醒反正都是套路 还不如避开这部分 爽得彻底就行
还算是合格的暴力动作片，不过这次是女版基诺李维斯。
总体4.5分。打头的制片公司八十七北方，厂牌动画是火柴人打斗场面，就是flash时代著名的“小小”系列那种。果然动作设计出色，有“小小”式的巧思，虽不是开山立派、过目不忘的神作水平，也足有4分；镜头也完整，只可惜演员动作不够凌厉；但动作场面秒杀大部分好莱坞片没问题。开头没脱近几年杀手片的俗套。进入正题后全程夜景，画面5分。用光调色滤镜非常用心，高对比度还带点糖果色——杀手和小女孩萌系元素的撞色也正是全片基调，非常成功，给《这个杀手不太冷》式的组合玩出了新花样，5分。可惜情节稍显单薄，交待得也不完美，远没有动作设计和画面用心。结尾硬插的极道家庭价值观反思也不成功，只有老少姐们儿反父权的主题融合得很自然。总之找尽量好的显示器（豆瓣低分百分百是这个原因），一口气看完。喝点小酒更好。网飞电影难得佳品
同为女杀手电影虽然故事简单，在打斗场面和“母女”情感上居然都还胜出Gunpowder Milkshake 一筹，爆爆柠檬to die for🍋杀手和小女孩的双向救赎，最后那个樱花🌸的镜头还可以拍得更梦幻一点～
演员不可渭演的不努力，只是在这简陋的剧情下，无论是伍迪哈里森、国村隼还是浅野忠信，看上去都做作的不得了，幸亏还有相对流畅的动作戏挽尊，相对暴力的尺度，也是本片得以生存之道。
凯特一丝不苟，技艺超群，是职业杀手中的标杆，并正处于巅峰期。然而这次在东京，她在暗杀一名极道成员时一反常态地失手，并被判了残忍而缓慢的死刑：她中毒了，只有不到 24 小时的时间复仇。身体状况迅速恶化的凯特与一名少女意外建立起感情，而这名少女是她以前杀掉的一个人的女儿。《凯特》由玛丽·伊丽莎白·温斯特德、米库·马蒂诺和伍迪·哈里森主演，塞德里克·尼古拉斯·特罗扬担任导演，讲述了一名被算计的杀手在临终前的绝地反击。
浅野忠信和伍迪哈里森都是被秒，不像BOSS呀
最后要是放射性物质能让女主变成超人之类的设定 那就完美了
有点儿《疾速特攻》和《杀死比尔》的意思，但女主仅凭花拳绣腿能够拼到最后完全是得益于主角光环和坏人话太多。
比想的差的太多，剧本上女杀手意外中毒，各种关系找到黑帮女儿小女孩直搞黑帮老巢，结果发现是自己导师联合黑帮叛逆者搞得这一出，最后直搞自己老巢，动作上几次枪战搏击但是没有任何大场面，表演上还说的过去，不尴尬，因此这个片子最多五分（满分10标准），估计过一周就就忘了
至少女主的打戏没火药奶昔女主那么尴尬。。。
自从《疾速追杀》面市以来，好莱坞就开始出现越来越多的复仇类型动作爽片了，今年上半年才刚看过鲍勃·奥登科克版的《小人物》，现在又来了个玛丽·伊丽莎白·温斯特德版的《凯特》，并且每部都有着截然不同的特点，本片除了这满满的日本场景元素外，还有着由钋-204中毒导致的必须打激素针才能活下去的生命时限设计，就很有《怒火攻心》系列的既视感，混搭下来的效果确实还挺新奇的。而且感觉本片还相当于是把玛丽在《猛禽小队》里缺失的帅气打戏都在本片中给还了回来，可谓是让我看了个爽。但就是本片的剧情设计有些过于模板化，情节的发展和反转也都在预料之内，这方面的确不如其他同类型作品。总体来说，《凯特》就是一部即便你已经知道它的剧情平庸却依然愿意为了其爽快的动作场面而去看一看的存在，所以最后6.6分。
去年看完塞隆女王的永生守卫以后，我还在说希望未来能多一点认真对待女性动作片的导演和团队。没想到这一年过去，出了一堆大女主动作片，竟然连一部比永生守卫能看的都没有。这部姑且算是相对接近的了，也只不过贡献了两小场勉强能上70分的段落，其余部分只能把脑子关上当日本观光MV看。女主之前在双子杀手里的表现明明还蛮不错，这部却时好时坏，力量感时强时弱，估计还是导演要求低拍摄赶工的锅。哎，本以为塞隆女王当初的极寒之城算个75分的女性动作片标准线，现在却变成了上限…………真的希望制片厂们上点心吧，你们不会是故意这么一通框框瞎搞，以便未来能让动作片重回男性天下吧？？也希望女星能再出几个像塞隆姐和哈利姐那样足够敬业的，突袭2的锤妹都结婚去了，这女打星可别就这么断档了呀！
浅野忠信和伍迪哈里森都是被秒，不像BOSS呀
经典西方价值观，我杀人如麻，坏事做尽，但是我是个可怜孩子的好女人。开头以为要杀小孩呢，原来只是影响小孩都不行。剧本也一般，不过打头场面做的确实不错，够暴力。
情节老套但镜头设计有点意思 boom boom lemon 到底什么味道啊
套路，政治正确，这个女杀手不太冷，爆爆柠檬广告宣传片。
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