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."
很不喜欢漫威，但是dc现在拿头跟漫威比。。
时长拓宽了角色塑造空间人物更丰满。
只能怪温子仁的《海王》让路人产生幻觉dceu还有救，不止尾灯一个人的锅。从头到尾都是公司决策问题。
四星半，失望的点在超人复活和选择复活超人时蝙蝠的态度反应，没有大的变化。
从某种意义上讲，或许我们比任何时候都更需要这部电影。
好多段落还是可以删掉。主线几乎变成了两个，一个是组队，一个是钢骨。关键词变成了父亲，但扎克叙事节奏不流畅的毛病依然存在，升格固执狂，造型爱好者。动作戏算是最大的提升了，加倍的篇幅当然也更有余地讲清来龙去脉，其余方面真的也就跟院线版打个平手。院线版最大的问题是不合时宜的插科打诨，但其实含量并没有高多少，一两个著名的段子是扎克自己的。多出来的笑话很可能也并不是尾灯自己的主意，没准是华纳高层逼迫的。当年被大肆赞扬的everybody knows是尾灯原创的，扎克通过两部作品证明了自己是是老爷黑。说实话，在原有素材的取舍上，尾灯做的很棒了。PS：前面几段插曲升格太广告风， 郑恺戏份还不少，太喜欢丧钟和不义联盟了。DCEU趁早玩完吧，专心做DC Black吧。
无论如何都比华纳搞出来那一锅下水要强个几百倍，再一次证明了甲方之傻逼不可计量。当然也没能改变这是一个超级大杂烩的本质，大杂烩最大的问题就是没有基调，既不黑暗、悲怆也谈不上有多少热情。另外，施耐德那些MTV式的升格镜头和大特写，很累。
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扎克·施奈德版《正义联盟》上映时间：2021-03-17（中国）/ 2021-03-18（美国）
它没有变得更好或者更坏，只是变得更长了。片子的硬伤还是在于难以用一部电影将六巨头各自所代表的理念全然捏合在一起，即便是一部四个小时的电影也不行，所以在看似宏大的叙事下，很多部分都因为言之无物而显得十分尴尬，大超代表的希望，女侠具有的女性独立意识，钢骨因家庭而重生，闪电侠的爱与救赎，最没存在感的海王的迷失与找寻，都用了一些十分刻意的片段和手法去描述，唯一做的好的就是认识到了少爷才是正义联盟的唯一核心人物，这是检验真DC饭的唯一标准，所以在有些冗长拖沓的情节背后，核心没丢，意识还在，而且说真的像扎导这样爱电影真正做电影的人不多了，他值得更好的评价，全片4：3画幅看的人很舒服，片尾哈利路亚一响起，更是让人虎躯一震，一部漫改电影做到这里很不简单，当然有人硬是要杠诺兰的三部曲，那就当我什么都没说。
由于采用了七武士式的组队模式自然要耗费近半（两小时）篇幅；捍卫地球远古历史回顾的内容又没法不让人想起指环王；加上这回施耐德在导演剪辑版中有意放出了传统画幅比例……三位一体浓烈满盈的迷影怀旧情绪，可还是架不住双方真打起来之后好感顿衰。视觉系导演扎克施耐德很重视以画面对比强化以弱胜强的感染力。拍300时演薛西斯的巴西演员其实不足一米九，被辅助增高到七英尺成了巨人，让斯巴达肌肉男在纵向空间上瞬间成了小弟。正义联盟荒原狼也采用同样的思维，改以传统画幅呈现后更强化了对比（掐脖拎起海兵）造就了精彩（与女侠对打）。但超人一出场就完蛋了。超人无限能力设定严重破坏了以视觉对比制造张力催生移情的内在逻辑基础——反正对手块头再大也不堪一击。体格与能力挂钩需智取（铁血战士）；以小捶（特）大该归动画！孙悟空戏斗巨灵神。
另外，扎導是超人粉还是啥？整天想着将他比喻成耶稣，想着神性人性，让他仇大苦深做什么呢？反而真正仇大苦深的蝙蝠侠变成了一个像是赶时间交差的暴发户。
6.若说尾灯版45分，则本版勉强及格，但比烂又有什么意义呢？
郑恺酱油不违和，企鹅广告也挺潮，
扎导请继续指导DC把，华纳去他的，这样的片子四个小时看的才爽有剧情而不是偏娱乐化
我曾给一些电影评价道：“现实意义已远大于艺术价值。”但《扎克·施耐德版正义联盟》两者兼而有之。
原来每一个尾灯版里让我觉得过得去的镜头和设计、铺陈全都是扎导的功劳🙂尾灯你为什么要这么恶心我们🙂
真不错，虽然时长久了些。但这才是我们影迷心中的正义联盟。大本永远心中的老爷
镜头真是漂亮，像一部冷峻的文艺电影。但确实要说好得上天了那也没有，故事还是一个超英故事，只是更完整了点，但也谈不上深度。
【7.5=】虽然前一小时节奏成灾难，但后面从钢骨小闪的人物塑造到结尾大战的完成度，的确可以算被翻案了。只能说服一下自己或许是扎导想给我们看的太多，其实做成2小时40分的院线版可能是观感最好也最中庸的做法。相比于17版，最令人欣慰的是风格终于统一了，不再有莫名其妙的尴尬时刻以及恶俗笑点，从危机面的展示到主角关系的调和，终于让人感觉到了这是一部英雄集结的大体量电影。大部分的优点也是将17版不及格的地方做到了原本应有的水平。如果要说扎导真加入了什么不一样的灵丹妙药，倒也没太看出来（不过小闪逆转那里真心燃）。只能说，超英联盟这种题材还是太难拍好，在这种基础下，能让人觉得在电脑前（或影院）坐了一下午还算值，那也就没太多可苛责的了。
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