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."
摄影美哭！唯一不足的是在优秀的演员配置和壮丽的风景拍摄下没有更有深度去展现这个角色以及这个故事的更多面向，一切都很符号化，就像每一幕的文字标题，充满着神秘又原始的符号印象。总的来说还是很满意！
仪式化电影。遍布的仪式化场景、构图、音乐、叙事、人物，仪式通往远古的巫术，以巫术（神话）为基础生产伦理文化，延续并巩固人类文明。因此，叙事必然是古典化的，如同祭祀，必须按照某种礼制，由此形成一个神话的述说。
進場後發現：哇！陳法拉！
最后的决斗好看。话说回来什么时候国内都是这种普遍摄影氛围，起码电影工业就是电影工业了吧。
…我懂了 尚气想杀他爸 纯粹是因为他爸比他长得帅还能打
哈姆雷特原型的北欧神话故事，偶尔的长镜头、美好肉体看得让人索然无味，先说说100分钟前后的那个牙箍是怎么回事？
舒梅切尔复仇记，西方宗教鬼神宿命仪式，最空洞无聊的剧情，完全和宏大史诗不沾边，那么小一个农场，还没崇明一个草莓园大的地方还能称王称霸。。。烂片一部
绝对热气腾腾、新鲜出炉的第一手影评——《尚气与十环传奇》9月2日全球第一天上映！澳门同步！★★★★★ 确实是拍的最有诚意的华裔电影！没有所谓的“历史原因”，就是一个很正常的超级英雄个人片，东方元素够到位，有一大段居然是澳门外景(亲切)，非常多特效，肯定花了很多钱，演员中文英文都很标准，讲中文最有口音的居然是杨紫琼，梁朝伟果然大佬！片尾两个彩蛋！漫威宇宙第二系列开篇养成了！漫威威武！
北欧民俗风情展示片，王子复仇记的故事讲成这样也还算是吸引人的，但相比于导演邪门前作，本片拍成这样实在是过于普通了（反而是去年的绿衣骑士，可以和女巫以及灯塔一起成为A24的邪门三部曲
先知太牛比了，怎么做到的？说好的最后火焰剑呢
北欧的色调风格很到位，历史文化也还原的不错，剧情就是原版的王子复仇记。但是，重点来了但是这片子没有史诗感，如果看过导演的成名作《女巫》，明显能感觉冰岛的戏在各方面都跟女巫如出一辙，就是乡下闭塞农村那模样，跟前段时间看的《牧羊人》一个味，男主叔叔正好绰号也叫‘牧羊人’。在经历过开头的神话铺垫加上维京海盗的屠村掠夺戏，观众还能对一个大概就20人出头的冰岛破村村斗感兴趣吗？除了寥寥无几的几场打斗戏外，大量的舞台剧台词，各种诗意的对话，割裂了电影感。这种类型电影在大银幕上看的话，估计下边能睡着一大片，在家里慢慢看或许还能品品台词的韵味。本来不想说的，永远get不到安雅的美，者已经是我看的第三部她当女主的电影，对我来说她长的真的好奇怪。
比预期好看很多。没有看到任何种族歧视，反而完全是从中华文化出发讲一个超级英雄故事，感觉美籍亚裔应该很感动吧。山海经里的小动物太萌啦～伟仔真的是太帅了！每一个眼神都秒杀对手，很能带人入戏。好的演员可以让我这种非超英粉也爱上这种俗气故事
去电影院或许可以获得酣畅淋漓的视听体验，但转移到电脑上，只是一个在寥寥恢弘场面点缀下的老生常谈的故事而已。
本来没抱什么期待，但看下来还是特别不错。微博上的段子，梁朝伟和陈法拉怎么生出了尚气的颜值，但看完整个电影，觉得刘思慕还是很帅，憨憨的
开头十分钟我还以为下了中文配音版，就一个吐槽，梁朝伟和陈法拉是发生了啥基因突变生出了男主。
老掉牙的俗套故事墨迹了俩小时，但是视觉效果值得加分。空中抓长矛扔回去让我想起育碧游戏引发生理不适。
【剧透！慎！】漫威系列中看的最莫名其妙的一部……三观想不明白，父亲之前用十环犯下的恶报应在母亲身上，父亲用十环当着儿子的面杀了参与打死母亲的门派的手下，告诉儿子“血债血偿”，后来父亲受“反派”怪物的影响强闯母亲的故乡要救“母亲”，父亲的到来打破了村庄的宁静，儿子觉得“一切的根源在父亲当年种下的恶果，要血债血偿，杀了父亲”…我？？更说不通的其实是刚开始父亲派手下去抢母亲留给兄妹的遗物，那是打开进入村庄大门的线索，找孩子回来就找孩子，那架势和追杀没区别。莫名其妙的看完反正最后父亲也死了，将十环继承给了儿子，兄妹联合杀了“大反派”给父亲报仇了…不过看出来了，花了不上钱，布景很美很好看，特效做的很大，打戏依旧很多，梁朝伟打造出了一个痴情汉的角色，要为爱情流泪了……大量中文台词瞬间以为自己在国内电影院
3.5制作精良，就是剧情以现在眼光看来像非常冗长的游戏，到了等级才能解锁的武器，强行的剧情杀和末日火山般史诗单挑boss战。可能是服务仪式感的一种妥协吧。哈姆雷特的改造倒是非常不错。
开头明明有那么多机会杀掉小王子,你却在那给我装x摆bug？瞬间没兴趣。
故事整体都太像玄学唠叨了，Alexander好帅 Lol
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