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."
导演在目前审查制度下，用鬼神故事来在现人世间的恶。
9.2 A extremely dangerous method，当然是柯南堡创作生涯的新高度，以如此低密度的情节拍这样一部关于人类进化的环保寓言注定是毁誉参半的，关键在于它触及了之前从未深入的问题，及身体异变如何作为内在的核心而非表层的意向，结尾真美。
复仇片，叙事借鉴了许多国外电影，又很像七八十年代的血浆片。本来挺不错，可惜把人性说的过于丑恶，没有美的点缀，丑又有何用呢？这个故事大打折扣
依旧是《大都会》和《星图》的那个柯南伯格，虚无烧尽的空洞中充斥着以血腥和乱伦为代价的，重生的甜美及温柔。而无休止的创造欲在儿童被残伤的身体内停下了脚步，显然，正如向帕丁森举起的手枪，和逃出囹圄仰望星云的姐弟，柯南伯格在终极的矛盾前说不出答案。
差点被名字耽误了的良心剧，算给网大正名了。比妖怪更可怕的是变坏的人心
用一种超认知的东西，展现一种陈腐的意义。近未来，当处理肿瘤的各种方式成为了一种艺术形式，人们已经不在乎死与生、爱与被爱，性也在变种，所有都在变种，那人类的认知也在变种。
被6.5分吸引来看的。罗生门故事会的创意很好，但大家演技都不大好，故事中还原的山上搏斗剧情也很站不住脚，感觉不值6.5。
前半段刻意强调狐妖的真实性，后半段却又刻意弱化，强调狐妖从来没出现过，但是似乎又什么都知道。
说话太多 讲得太白 太scifi了 不够神秘主义
升米恩斗米仇，连土匪都不愿意打劫的人家，却被自己一直救济的村民害了全家。看到后面真希望有狐仙杀光全村，可惜并没有，哎……
以为是恐怖片 没想到是人心 真的升米恩斗米仇 果然后面人心最可怕
好不伦不类的感觉 大家都喜欢拿这电影与《钛》作比较 后者是无缘由的暴力和发泄 前者却是丧失戾气后的一种回归自我 肿瘤成了新的器官 再把器官裸露出来做表演 触目惊心丧心病狂煞有介事，裸露被称为漂亮 痛感即活着 以这样的观念来审度 未来世界也不过是个可笑的玩意。
昨天看睡着了，今天把剩下的看完，理解可能有偏差。现如今每个人都是行为艺术家，缝上嘴巴只用全身耳朵来表达的行为艺术表演者，可能形式大于内容。最极致的表达又是反求诸己，用身体去献祭意义。看那些切割画面，我竟然可以目不转睛，得益于拍摄视角的客观呈现，不血腥不迎合。
Cronenberg在后期没有坚持把写实黑帮犯罪片做下去太可惜了。
整部电影基于“切割人体是一种新型性爱”的概念展开，但这真的有意思吗？现实生活中，有人迷恋穿孔；有人从自虐中获得快感；有人会把自己的脸整成蜥蜴……把这些真实的人类怪癖与性爱扯上关系，难道不比电影中在身上划几道小伤口更有噱头？所以又有什么说服力让人喜欢这个无聊的设定？更别提剧情还是如此冗长乏味。
还是有趣的，故事有点实。中国为啥没人搞得出个这。
各方面都有很多不足，但是还是比很多院线片有诚意的多
缺乏宏观叙事的欧美电影现在完全迷失在了性别 身体 种族这些流于表面的题材，拍不出任何具有真正社会价值的内容，形式再酷炫也终究是一坨五彩斑斓的屎
“我到底在国产鬼片里期待什么呢-1”除此之外故事完整气氛到位，民俗捉妖桥段也很过瘾（ps.好多打着两星三星的实质好评，这是什么含金量2333
虽然惊喜不多，但算是自圆其说，没什么大缺点无功无过吧。今时今日能够坐在电影院里去看、去慢慢发现这样一部新片，还是非常非常非常享受的。Cronenberg把k用得真好啊！真难得。Lea的表演和往常差不多，没什么亮点也不差。Viggo就还是那么好。
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