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."
故事编的还差点意思，中间悬念丢失的比较多，没法坚持看到最后。但成本小，人少，地点少，演员都在线，完成度高（尤其摄影和声音能看出花了心思），貌似可以是正确的网大打开方式之一？如果票房也赚，说明就可行。但目测够呛啊，分都没开。
低配彗星，剧情没有像彗星那么复杂，好在能自圆其说，但同样是低成本投资，这部在演员演技和台词功底上都有点不合格，只能算是一部勉强合格的作品
关于剧中各平行空间逻辑关系，试解释一下，以下有剧透，慎看：
还可以，很爽的穿越片，逻辑也很严谨，制作优秀
妥妥的软科幻，不需要华丽的场景也能讲出抓人的故事，这就是神秘软科幻的魅力；能看得到很多类型电影的影子，不过又能自成一派，完整性高，留给人遐想和回味的空间，不过如果能在类型电影主题之上再突破下可能更好。
平行森林可以是梦境，也可以是现实。燕子可能曾回到过自己的空间，也可能从未找到正确的入口。由平行森林延伸出的数个空间显示出了燕子在失去孩子之后一次又一次的挣扎，一个母亲为了孩子可以走入一座迷宫，这个概念远超越影片现有的表达。
虽然剧本还可以 但节奏实在是太慢了 内容匮乏 还有男主的演技一直很出戏
小成本，美国买了版权翻拍。女主丧子之痛是电影的核心，定下了阴冷的基调，整个电影的环境，音乐都在烘托这种氛围，女主丧子自责悲痛，这种情感无处释放，在平行森林里寻找出口就像寻找情绪发泄的出口，稍走几步就容易迷路的森林更像是一个情感的漩涡，所以科幻在本片还是媒介，表现的还是人物的精神世界，就像女主看的《闪灵》。
这才是国产电影应该有的样子，钱花在刀刃上的电影就是和钱花在请流量明星上不一样。最后女主自杀成全另一个自己不落俗套，不管是真实还是梦境。我个人是喜欢幻灭情节和低落结局的，能把救赎拍得令人动容佩服编剧导演和演员的功力。
中远景很不错 近景特写就没那么好了 表演中规中矩吧 服道化方面可以再加点分的 最后这个剧本 就是闪灵+彗星+游轮 完全没有自己的提炼啊 另外情节全靠对白推进 你都抄了那么多了 为啥不学学人家是咋推进的 还有几个符号最后没用到 是要靠观众自己脑补么
11.13 什么鬼啊，这种电影也能上院线？小成本要不然拼创意要不然拼质感，轮到这片啥也没有啊。把《恐怖游轮》和《彗星来的那一夜》概念捏一块儿就当创新了是吧？怎么吹，汉化得还行？影像质感也不是很差而是完全没有，所有“演员”都嘬着牙胡说八道，快别拿网大给这片开脱了，这两年一流网大还真的能看。最鸡贼的就是这套噱头，科幻+国产+小成本+好莱坞，拿到导演请指教也就是毕志飞那个档次
在国产片的制作中，小成本小团队制作的电影挺多，但是能排出这类电影，还是需要有一定的功底。
有意思。男女主演技都在线。景色太美了。不比彗星那一夜恐怖游轮差。前面有些细节后面好像没有交代？
感觉演技还是差点意思，故事太直白了。（5/10）
看得出国外同类电影的一些痕迹，男主的演技还是有些生硬和做作，剧情上有些逻辑没有很好的解释清楚……但，这些都瑕不掩瑜，在有限的资金下，将剧本，画面，场景，人物，台词等细节打磨的如此之好，足以让国内所谓大制作电影汗颜……尤其是结尾爆炸之后的心电监护平直的声音，又给人留出遐想的空间……非常推荐的电影……
一部网大质感的院线片。因为我对低成本一向宽容，国语、小成本、软科幻，这几个要素，我直接把期待值降到最低，不纠结什么逻辑和真实性，就是想看设定来的。
emmm，这片子只能说能看，准备好爆米花就完事了，别计较太多哈哈
平行世界 同心圆 一个涟漪会泛起更大的涟漪
在这个成本下完成度非常高了，其他作品的描摹影子还是比较明显。
其实还是比较简单的，但也算是国产片这个类型的开端了吧！
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