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."
流畅的剧本，一气呵成的故事，其中的转折不显突兀，贵在导演没刻意的卖惨
陪1.3米以下的儿子打卡，从剧情来看，前期压制后期爆发，这就是儿童爽剧吧～
导、演俱佳。且：Cherry Jones（Tam妈妈的扮演者）和Annette Badland（神秘博士里的Slytheen女市长和Ted Lasso里的Mae的扮演者）真不是双胞胎姐妹吗？！
[3.5/5.0] Tammy Faye 指甲太長不能開可樂罐，所以隨身攜帶壓舌板的細節很有趣。Vincent D'Onofrio 戴眼鏡（飾演 Jerry Falwell）完全認不出來。https://www.slashfilm.com/the-eyes-of-tammy-faye-trailer/
#TIFF21 第60场 劳模姐稳定输出，谁能想《茉莉的牌局》也已经过去四年，修养调整过后的她再战颁奖季，她证明了自己仍然是种子选手，不发力则以，一发力惊人。工整的传记片，色彩上也很复古，虽然内容上没有做到深挖，浅层面的埋坑太多，但好在劳模姐和加菲的表演给力，让角色更加有信服度。无论她经历了什么，她依然保持乐观的心态，虽有不完美，但我们都知，生活哪有处处如意呢？尤其是到后面，当她陷入困境时，劳模姐把Tammy的隐忍和心有不甘演得相当精准。敬业的她更是因为拍摄这部电影，皮肤遭受了永久性的伤害，实在让人心疼不已。学院看看她吧，她真的好拼啊！
就一个以上地之名行苟且之事的故事，我没看到神迹，没看到祂的爱，也没看到他们对祂的爱，我不知道是因为我迟钝还是因为这电影就是一流水账。。。
挖掘的内容过于表面了，浪费了查斯坦奥斯卡级别的表演，她不过是一个需要爱的女人，为此她努力的去拥抱所有人。
中途睡着了无数次，本着对孩子得尊重，强撑着看完。
其实我有点看不懂导演对夫妻两个人物的态度是什么，是在批判吗，有表达同情吗。看完就觉得在金钱和利益面前，什么东西都是可以变质的，连宗教也是。
马克思说过“宗教是人民的鸦片”，塔米·菲的表演更是给传递大烟塑造了一个完美通道。心智脆弱者在这种充满感染力的表演很容易沦陷。卫星电视更是将这种传播以几何倍的形式放大。
走着走着就忘记了初心，于是有太多人颠峰难继和然后陨落。一穷二白的夫妻俩，全心布道施福，随着捐赠的增多，心思不再专一，不当行为积累起来，终于掀翻了两人
劳模姐的演技很好，但是电影拍得够莫名。加菲尔德好像还没有从倒数时刻里走出来。奥斯卡最佳女主角可以提名，但是拿不下来。好吧，拿下来了。
#95thAcademyAwards# 中途一度觉得好漫长
剧情不值一提，给小孩看的，太随意简单；
讲述塔米-费-梅斯纳故事的最新尝试，她曾是美国最有名的女性之一。电影演技精湛，资金充足，设计精美。但它应该没起到改起的作用
劳模姐演的的确不错！几乎看不出劳模姐的痕迹了！
纯为了捧女主角的电影，并不好看，而且逻辑很混乱
和里卡多一家真的互为对照，两部都是写一个美国电视icon，对于不熟悉的人都有些难以下咽，但是两部其实是两个极端。里卡多一家承载了太多议题，但是索金至少是有表达的意图，这部直接放弃了表达，只是截取几个高光时刻，没有组织，看完对塔米菲反而有很多疑问。当然劳模演的是好的，但称不上好的表演
感染力女王握着别人手时、站上舞台时，世界好像只剩下她，和身后耀眼的光芒。越来越喜欢看传记电影，尤其是没有明确价值导向的情况下，重点去凸显人物的深刻特点。
人物弧光非常贴切真实人物，这就让几分不出色的故事高光了不少，人物传记少不了质疑与批判最真实的结果，演技是有能竞争水准的~
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