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."
几个小故事谈不上特别惊悚吧，就还可以，但因为他一部电影包含了10个故事，所以每个故事的长度真的是挺短的。
在城市化进程推进背景下，进行清晰且丰富、多方面的表达，对比、象征等方式也很精准（闪着灯的寺翁在城市面前、瘸腿的“大象”等等），人物也各自一派、让表达丰富。
生活有时就像坏掉的黑脚趾或是房顶漏水的黑锈斑，一地鸡毛也是独一无二的回忆。
总共十个小故事，一般般吧，也没啥看头，不过是每个故事做了点留白，做了点让人想象的空间，没有说的那么直白。一般。
由几个故事单独构成，全是老梗抄袭，可以说毫无创意可言。平时不怎么看恐怖片的人观看或许还是可以清凉一夏的。
当作观赏柬埔寨风景和市民生活的影像来看，还蛮平静的～舒服的～可是作为电影总觉着还差一点什么。
影片整体质量比8集剧集版强很多，尤其是前4个故事和最后1个故事，在有限的时间内也算是出色的讲完了一个故事，其他故事就比较拖后腿了，主要问题就在主角脑残行为太明显这个通病了。第5个故事本身剧情是很有意思的，猥琐主角把墙壁死尸当美女邻居进行互动，有创意，可惜结尾一塌糊涂，啥也没交代清楚瞬间完事。第10个故事最应该单独拍成电影，密室逃生+恶魔，这个剧本真的有很大发展空间。个人最喜欢（最害怕）第3个故事齿虫，结尾发展成僵尸题材，也算很刺机而且很合理，另外这个故事很戳中我的软肋，在牙龈上动刀，想想就疼...
去过柬埔寨，让我回想起了当时亲眼见过的各种场景，非常真实。
由没头没尾一惊一乍不明就里的小学生才会人口相传的10个小故事串联而成。 各个故事应该分别叫： 1. 男精神病 2. 不知哪得罪人了就突然嗝儿屁 3. 丧尸穿新衣 4. 不知为啥自我了断但舔个脸又要复活 5. 打酱油的漂亮女邻居 6. 男变态 7. 我国巫术走出国门 8. 女精神病 9. 莫名其妙但是还行 10. 莫名其妙也不咋地 还有谁也是被人体模特那张宣传海报骗进来的。有这俩小时，出去吃顿烧烤好不好。
整體比較老套無聊⋯像小學時候看的那種鬼故事集錦。
前1/3还行，越往后越拉垮，模仿大师没错，但别请他做监制，会束手束脚吧。
是分段式恐怖片，但是每个故事之间毫无串联。十篇都看了，大部分故事都显得比较套路，无聊之余既视感很强，比如魂游很像日本的独人捉迷藏，层间噪音和人模我也看到过类似的本子。综合下来齿虫最佳，概念不难但精准，情绪走向比较完整，缺点是后面撒血浆比较刻意，但是是能扩充成长篇的故事。
确实蛮像科长十多年前世纪初的作品的，入选平遥也符合他一贯以来对第三世界电影/现实命运的关怀，一种镜像的创作怜悯，完成度放第一梯队没什么问题。怀揣梦想渴望联系的个体在冷漠时代背景下无奈的处境，无时不刻都是巨大的对比，上一秒还在街头骑着摩托做着舞蹈明星的梦，下一秒就已背负所谓家庭寄予的厚望枷锁。身体不适且难以沟通的怀旧父母亲，叛逃出家庭的姐姐、移居海外的挚友、失能的爱意已无处安放。柬埔寨的整个城乡人群结构和当代中国别无二致，背井离乡在繁华中心积攒日后返乡生活成本的青年们，向着注定宿命拼命挣扎的大厦蝼蚁，不幸又相似的落寞。那些在现代无节制的城市变迁中无处可去的百姓们、老龄化无活力的市井，作为同为高压环境下的东亚人很难不去共情，但即便如此，我们所最终记住的，也是曾自由洋溢过热情的动作与那喧嚣的楼屿。
有几个故事挺吓人的，冥婚的单元男主身材真好。
串联的拼盘电影 需要在有限时间里 提炼出 最好的精华 在我看来除了智齿好好发展一下变成长篇电影 以及人体模特的打磨不够好 这完全可以是一部板板正正的恐怖电影 其他不太喜欢 也提不起兴趣
故事会风格的恐怖短片集锦，重点是吓你，而不是合理得吓你。
第三个故事的内双妹妹很好看，第四五个故事都能更吓人的，但编导完全不知道啥是心理恐怖
要说变态 还得霓虹人来演 棒子就是演不出来那种感觉
关于开车的恐怖，包括车窗的指纹，车前的幻影和导航的问题，这些细节构思的很细腻。对隧道空间的挖掘也体现了导演在日常生活中的观察和思考。红衣女鬼步步迫近，这个恐怖的力道确实很大，也很直白。牙科医生拍摄从口腔的内部向外拍很新颖。对于蚜虫的捕猎过程，表现得特别极致。疼痛感极为官能。但是看到后面同质化愈加明显，看疲了。
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