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."
邪典程度非常A24了 割手和男人生男人两个场景记忆犹新 但总体观影体验不算愉快 昏昏欲睡 不断倒带重看 可能是我的问题….
极好的恐男电影 前半部氛围营造很好 A24作品里的风景摄影一如既往地棒 村子里所有男人由一人扮演 既点明了男人厌女起来都一样的丑恶嘴脸 也为最后男性自我繁殖的高能场面做足了铺垫 只不过关于宗教、性别尤其是生殖的隐喻太明显了一点 which让影片最后莫名有股爽片的感觉😂
男人生，性本恶。罪恶缠身是不能诡辩的事实。讽刺过于直白，文本上几乎没有值得推敲的地方，完全是直给。把噱头都放置在视觉上的玩法，将诡异与惊悚结合。配乐由出彩的地方，但相较于《湮灭》还是弱了一些。若能在文本上花点心思，把讽刺玩得再稍抽象些或许更有意思。
翻译成《男人们》比较符合电影原意，观感还行
A24真有东西👍🏻，独立电影界宝藏啊，这部有灯塔的味道了，也是嘉兰最实验最文艺的一部作品
对千奇百怪以爱为名的控制和占有说f*ck off；以及我实在很纠结为啥女主对房东说自己不会弹琴，连闺蜜都不知道她弹琴超好，歪？？？
今年期待值高的几部恐怖惊悚片真的也太意识流了。恐男佳片，看完只想说：girls，开车一定要锁门。
5.5/10。充斥大量符号和隐喻的抽象「现实主义」电影，类似《不要抬头》，利用讨巧题材和现实元素展示了女性在男性支配的现实世界里面临的各种「恐怖实景」，但表达本身空洞无物，掺杂着迷幻剂的feminism horror。
[视]R血，露鸟，A24，导演<湮灭><机械姬>。氛围片，一人饰多角，后期有影史级重口桥段，雌雄同体，分叉手，套娃。个人第6666个已看条目
他们以不同面目出现，行使着同样的伤害，跟踪恐吓指责咒骂……当你手握斧头绝不屈服地面对时，他（们）却委屈巴巴地说，我只是想要你的爱。
还挺直白的性别惊悚片，导演致力于创造的cult奇观，从语言暴力，宗教，性，生殖等方面表现女性所受到的压迫。正因为是放在一个乡村离群索居的环境中，所以比较单薄，而现实生活中性别议题的复杂性更强，显得本片比较傻直。千男一面的演员罗里·金尼尔已经是英国影视变态男专业户了，没想到还能继续拓展变态的阈值，我也是有被惊到。本片对他的考验主要是生理层面的，感觉有些场景相当累人，但可惜在导演对于心理的恶探讨不足。
宗教符号和隐喻很多，艺术又cult，血腥又古典优美。是女性可能遇到的所有困境了。
7.0/10，生机盎然的环境，与隐蔽恐怖男权（精神控制）和生殖轮回形成互文。高潮的连环自我生殖cult味十足，具有令人咋舌的符号明喻力量，狠狠给疯狂男权抽耳光。
回热评里某条：没有人在逼你成为一个怪物，而是你本来就这个样子。无法接受被拒绝的事实，无法管理自己的暴力倾向，无法学会保持边界感，无法理解她人的恐惧，无法接纳自己自恋受损的自负心，于是开始harass、threaten、bully、用narcissistic rage以期挽回一段早就结束的关系，这是单方的妄想，而非双方的同意。片子都讲这么清楚了，居然还发现不了自己的行为举止有多toxic，那八成是心盲了🥶
看前半段还想：这算什么恐怖片，画面还蛮清新唯美的呢。看到后半段裸男肛生子、裸男破腹产、以及各种身体部位的套娃……看得人都麻木了，回想起来还是最初窗边的裸男最恐怖，像车后备箱的炸弹不知什么时候引爆。
布努埃尔的一角两饰到这里的一人饰多角 这里体现共性 皆为一体 借以表达主题 虽然最后那里（大家所说的“套娃男人”）还是看得目瞪口呆 但是整体呈现出来的东西比较浅显
三星过低，四分有点高。隐喻很好，各种电影只是提出问题不解决问题，看不到出路已经想摆烂了。
男的不行，这男导演越来越不行，A24越来越不行。
三星半 导演的氛围营造水平无敌 最后的高潮戏份感觉能被影史铭记 寓意明显 女性面对男性的困局较为刻板印象
各种隐喻，各种画面，模糊且独特
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