剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 张廖烨烁 2小时前 :

    戏中戏中戏中戏,这是我过去两年里在电影院笑得最开心的2个小时。这片子是个值得多看几遍的喜剧,或者我也不知道该怎么分类了,因为揉杂了各种电影体裁,剧情、冒险、悬疑、情感、家庭、喜剧、戏剧却不会显得不伦不类。凯奇和佩德罗俩人疯狂飚戏,好喜欢

  • 卫昱乔 4小时前 :

    凯奇和哈维不在一起说不过去吧?一喊action ,条件反射弹起来可太搞笑了

  • 堂飞白 9小时前 :

    三流剧本,从头到尾嘴炮,其实挺无聊,要不是凯奇出演,可能会更无聊。

  • 子车德曜 7小时前 :

    对Nicolas Cage近年现状的调侃和以前光辉岁月的回顾,The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent为Cage定制而生,它用一种近乎戏谑的态度来为Cage庆生,结合Cage还债结束的里程碑,这部电影仿佛就像剧情里的一样,Cage终归还是那个永不过气的Nick Fucking Cage.

  • 妍洲 0小时前 :

    凯奇演的根本不是他自己,只是一个叫尼古拉斯凯奇的明星罢了。除去跟他本身有关的电影梗,其余的就是一个平平无奇的犯罪喜剧。

  • 卫诚化 0小时前 :

    三星半。看完这片子的第一感想是‘凯奇不欠债了挺好’。《帕丁顿熊2》和《变脸》就是好看,正确的客观的一针见血的。概念很有趣可惜差一口气(在嗑acid那一段感到了穷),我好希望凯奇真儿子来客串一下😸😸😸说是温情版《危情十日》,emmm好吧很难反驳

  • 功雪松 3小时前 :

    7/10。看的上一部凯奇作品正好是《我心狂野》,落魄演员凯奇和当年的巨星凯奇对话,无比怀念却依然要故作诙谐给粉丝和观众强调that's my job,果然喜剧的内核都是悲剧。

  • 太史书意 5小时前 :

    与其说是翻身之作,不如说拍这部片子是为了告诉粉丝,自己真的很爱电影,自己也真的很努力。希望凯奇后面能接到大制作,迎来事业第二春吧。

  • 应凡儿 6小时前 :

    作为一个常年看影视同人文的人来说,这部片子给我的感觉大概就是尼古拉斯凯奇的粉丝写了一部偶像slash自己的RPS故事然后被偶像本人出演了,tag可能还会打上“真实背景”、“架空”、“粉丝行为勿上升蒸煮”等。我作为观众可能还想加一个“禁止套娃”。

  • 容令美 9小时前 :

    把CIA线砍掉,就演狂热粉丝和过气偶像叙旧喝酒,再把凯奇为了还债接过的烂片吐槽一顿就很好看了。

  • 封晓曼 6小时前 :

    凯奇终于拍了一部能够表现他本身演技的好电影啦~影中影的创作模式还是挺有趣的~而且剧情也非常感人!!很喜欢这种温馨的感觉~

  • 候文静 1小时前 :

    三星半:男性中年危机,影帝天鹅挽歌,迷影黑色幽默,逐梦小岛惊魂。千面银幕容不下一个角色,万家灯火照不亮一轮孤影。咖啡馆的日光炙烤着倾情的演出,地下室的炽灯弥漫着昔日的荣光。没有一种麻药比戏瘾更加上头,没有一种角色比自己更难扮演,没有一种情感比影迷更加长久,没有一种场景比家庭值得向往。

  • 亓香卉 8小时前 :

    还不错,起码基本没有快进看完了(行为评分法)

  • 嘉栋 8小时前 :

    什么子弹横飞西班牙海边的鬼故事哈哈哈哈?要不是凯奇叔叔这片早垮了。

  • 卫家丽 9小时前 :

    三星半:男性中年危机,影帝天鹅挽歌,迷影黑色幽默,逐梦小岛惊魂。千面银幕容不下一个角色,万家灯火照不亮一轮孤影。咖啡馆的日光炙烤着倾情的演出,地下室的炽灯弥漫着昔日的荣光。没有一种麻药比戏瘾更加上头,没有一种角色比自己更难扮演,没有一种情感比影迷更加长久,没有一种场景比家庭值得向往。

  • 卫界平 9小时前 :

    三星半,多半星给凯奇本人。作为连续多年啃他烂片(以各种奇怪的独立电影为重灾区)的我这个观众而言能再一次看到他主役这种院线喜剧甚是欣慰。成片并没有预期无聊,但只是感觉又多看了一部《憨豆特工》而已,抛去电影里凯奇自我调侃的成分来看它带给我的惊喜甚至还没有《威利游乐园》多。

  • 位思懿 3小时前 :

    作为一个常年看影视同人文的人来说,这部片子给我的感觉大概就是尼古拉斯凯奇的粉丝写了一部偶像slash自己的RPS故事然后被偶像本人出演了,tag可能还会打上“真实背景”、“架空”、“粉丝行为勿上升蒸煮”等。我作为观众可能还想加一个“禁止套娃”。

  • 于雅美 4小时前 :

    看了这么多年MR.CAGE的好片和烂片之后,对其中的很多元素还真挺有共鸣的。

  • 常婉清 0小时前 :

    疯狂cue他自己的电影很有趣,但我觉得最有意思的是它毫无保留地嘲讽了凯奇咋咋呼呼的表演风格。笑点不错,能让凯奇的粉丝们在银幕前笑得像个憨批。然而频繁的戏剧化、反高潮的场景让整部电影节奏松散,完全用人物推动剧情,则显得没太多实质性的内容。

  • 公叔千风 3小时前 :

    绝对值得四星的好电影,nicolas cage回春之作,我觉得里面的兄弟情最感人,私心觉得比杨紫琼那部爆作更好看,剧本反套路的地方很多,全程无尿点,力荐!

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