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."
灾难片差点意思…喜剧片差点意思…总体差点意思…架空的在理论基础上
冲着灾难片的标签来的，对过去几年韩国小成本的灾难片印象很好，比如《极限逃生》和《隧道》。但这次却有点失望，我可以理解小成本灾难片没有末日大场面，但至少不要糊弄我。相较于之前同样是密闭环境下的小成本灾难片，《隧道》明显就要优秀很多。韩国某公司的营销部组长终于靠拼搏在首尔的麻浦区买了间公寓，邀请同事来家暖房的次日 一整幢5层的楼房就因为地面塌陷了一个深不见底的巨大坑洞而下沉，最后，三男一女一男孩最终利用下雨天的雨水浮力而逃出了这个500米的大天坑。有意思的是，电影在豆瓣的译名叫做《地陷》，而我下载的电影资源译名叫做《天坑》，一看就是一对儿。这部电影既想拍出一部够震撼的灾难片、又想拍出人物之间社会和家庭的温馨关系、甚至还想抨击一下首尔病态的房价和当代年轻人病态的买房观念，想要的太多、反而捆死了自己。
果然除了生死都是小事，那些个邻里家庭同事之间的矛盾和问题算个p，总的来说还是很温情的
影片给我最直观的感受是：从遗憾到释然再到惊喜和痛快。本以为影片着重描写林则徐这个禁烟、销烟的“民族英雄”，但看着看着发现林则徐被淡化了，这是略有遗憾的一点。紧接着又释然了，作为网络电影，写实而客观的讲述一个关心民众疾苦，矢志做一个济世匡时的正直官吏的故事真的能被观众认可吗？倒不如在动作、场面上下文章。最后，影片通过林则徐身边的人反映出当时大烟对百姓的危害对社会的危害，又有谢苗、杜玉明这些人畅快淋漓的打斗，这个影片已经给观众很多惊喜，已经算是成功了。
我感触最深的是林则徐的形象，有理有利有节，那句“为什么他们想活，百姓们就得死……”
所有人都特别聒噪，一直在大吼大叫，难道是顶楼番外篇
灾难配喜剧说起来既常见也不常见，因为看过了<欢乐喜剧人>一众强行化喜为悲的说教小品，这部拍得轻松自在的灾难就算难得。
那个国度都有这种废材垃圾货色，结果人家是王者。贫民区的人民总是各有特色。这么大的倾斜度，是能感觉到的，尤其在躺下的时候。最后那个点睛之笔，太棒了！
不搞笑，不灾难，不亲情。韩国电影也在走下坡路了。
②剧情未涉及任何政治一方，留给观众说
最后逃出部分有点魔幻 就当是运气好吧 邻里同事朋友之间的互相帮助 看着还算刺激 有光洙的电影就是搞笑片 打发时间还不错
节奏流畅，故事完整，千年历史每个人身在其中难窥全貌，世事难料，总有人救民于水火，即使你我未能成功，后来人也会前赴后继。
https://b23.tv/dkFPko。
乔迁→认识奇怪的邻居→地陷→遇险→逃生
bug巨多的灾难子自救片，有喜剧的元素，然而总体上很一般，当然是格局小了，再加上前面半小时的铺垫有点过于拖沓，剧情冲突不突出，虽然很有创意但还是摆脱不了太普通。
创意点不错，但是针对创意点展开的社会性和合理性做的不够。最多吐槽下首尔的房价罢了。
5.3/10 作为一部基于现实创作的喜剧兼灾难类作品, 贫瘠的笑料, 缺乏现实性的情节, 整体俗不可耐的故事...种种遗憾，皆令本作难以称之为优秀。 故事内面蕴含的大部分深意，通过依靠台词直白表露的方式传递，让影片更显冗长无趣。 无谓的牺牲, 无用的情节, 单薄的人物, 更是令影片越发糟糕。 虽然如同大多数韩国影片，本作中依旧有不少演员奉上水准级的演技，为数不多的几处笑料也尚算有趣。 然而相较于极为新鲜的设定, 本片并未能活用此设定，且以更佳的完成度面世。最终本片沦为一部缺乏足够魅力的，平庸的影片。
就非常吵非常儿戏。主创根本就没当灾难片来拍。还是娱乐性喜剧化先行的。强制圆满，巨大的主角光环。
作为一部动作片，动作戏非常漂亮爽利，看到一点点中国动作电影的希望，所以给五星。
和摩天楼也差太多了吧，，，既不严谨也不搞笑，，，是在嘲讽房价么，那就可以理解了，
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