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."
肯尼斯布拉纳太自恋了 这么自恋的导演何苦要去翻拍老电影
这个版本的波洛就是自大自满，政治正确，自嘲？恶心得一匹！本以为如此琐碎的线索和根本逻辑不起来的逻辑会是不一样的结局，结果结局他妈的是一模一样的啊！真的就有人会傻逼到邀请全是要杀害自己的来参加而且还是蜜月？改的什么逼东西？其实如果凶手改成朋友的话还能自洽一点，因为存在震惊，但是最后故意煽情，完完全全感受不到任何的爱，这个波洛除了会骄傲叫自己的名字和用可恶的眼神害死些无辜的人还能干些啥？最后推理明明白白一坨屎！
请迪士尼速速放弃这个系列like how you gave up X-Men，莫要再当福斯的冤大头接盘侠。
全场highlight时刻——开篇狗男女贴身热舞场面 看看有几个和我一样 面红耳赤心跳加速的死样
充满了让人反感的做作和匠气。好比如一定要给手枪一个特写，一定要设计棱形玻璃门窗并透过它拍人物关系，仿佛学到的每一个技巧都要运用进来。还夹杂着黑人议题，同性恋内容，阶级差异，但是都浅尝辄止，透着投机的意味。所有表演都很表面，盖尔加朵除了赚钱以外也该考虑自己选片的角色定位了。
美妆和时装还有婚礼旅拍广告？
加朵美如画，结尾太让人不痛快了！... :/
包装精美的空心汤团，蜜汁自信的戏精导演！阿婆的棺材板都压不住了
Kenneth Branagh版《東方快車謀殺案》已經是我對阿婆作品魔改的極限了，而他卻還得寸進尺，於是，史上最招人煩版波洛誕生了，如果說能夠把《尼羅河上的慘案》拍得像《小時代》算是一種成功的話，那他是相當成功，不好好拍懸疑，也不好好拍推理，卻給波洛瘋狂加愛情戲，主次不分，是只想給自己的角色加戲。最後，送給Kenneth Branagh一句話，你他媽給我離阿婆作品遠遠的，我能夠接受繼續翻拍的唯一理由，那就是Kenneth Branagh被開除！
导演越老越帅 异域风光群星闪耀黑人布鲁斯都是加分项了 爱情令人冲动鲁莽 不过就算锤子胖了还吃人 第一眼也没有人能拒绝吧 系列电影请继续
惊呆了，现在连nword都不让说了吗？这就删评论了？？
所以刚开场那一幕交代Poirot的经历有什么用？就为了说他为何要蓄须？里面为了政治正确而改的角色定位也太多了吧~~两个黑人角色，就为了带出小时候被种族歧视？教母的同性恋什么鬼啊喂？Hammer的在床边哭那段演技，我仿佛在看国内那部演戏的综艺一样。。。朵姐虽然好美，但她的气场真的太酷了，实在表现不出那种对周遭疑虑重重郁郁寡欢的样子。前半段剧情实在有点太长，后面解谜就显得太短了，而且也没有让观众参与，直接让Poirot揭晓答案，就显得有点没趣。
真是眼瞎了。全程我都以为自己在看玛格罗比跟贾坤菲尼克斯。结果竟是两个完全不同的演员
跟1978年版本差得不止一星半点！节奏太拖沓了，开场一个小时才死人，是为了让盖尔·加朵戏份更多一些么？加朵把这个富家女演得过分可爱了，以致于让人忽略了她的自私和愚蠢（抢闺蜜男朋友真的很过分哎）西蒙选角失败，主演颜值严重下滑，让人难以置信长成这样也能仙人跳富家女？原著精彩的推理过程被大大压缩，缺乏细节。杰奎琳复仇女神的劲儿还是很对的。但这版波洛也太自恋了，导演疯狂给自己加戏。影片整体基调整得太苦大仇深，强行把爱情线加在好几组人物关系上，殊不知现实生活中很多犯罪的动机就是为了搞钱。人啊，还是不能太贪心，爱情、美貌、钱有一个已经很不容易，有俩就要烧高香了，还想第三个估计就离丧命不远了。
别说，几段片子氛围打造得很不错，就是剧情有点烂。
基本没有存在的必要，除非是作为埃及旅游宣传片。演技都很尴尬，Gal Gadot快成烂片女王了。
火吻的戏份有点少啊，希望未来戏再多点
除了风光更美之外，人物塑造和案件呈现都一塌糊涂，看不到新版新在哪里。
阿婆迷暴走：这《尼罗河上的惨案》是针对《尼罗河上的惨案》的惨案！
改编后的视听作品出奇的“简洁”，甚至有些不像一部悬疑片了，完全感受不到人物的魅力，不论正反派，那还有什么好说的呢？阿加莎的原作就这么毁了？！要不是为了和上海影城的CINITY厅告别，大概是不会看这片子的。【SFC上海影城】
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