剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 卫四泓 6小时前 :

    顶级的美术和配乐加上糟糕的剧情,难以形容我看完之后的感想。生搬硬套罗密欧与朱丽叶却改得相当尴尬,整个黑帮斗殴全程冒傻气,甚至给我感觉他们打着打着就要去练舞室跳舞了。人物行为逻辑崩坏是整部电影走向失败的开始,女主舞会跳了支舞就要跟仇家男主私奔,第二天就要跟他结婚,亲哥被爱人手刃当晚就跟杀哥仇人上床,还跟嫂子吵架,就你的爱情最高贵,哥嫂的爱情就啥也不是对吗?导演用颜色区分两个帮派观感是很好,女主认识男主没几天就开始天天穿蓝色,新时代白眼狼,有了爱情就没家庭的典型恋爱脑,结果最后还没殉情。男主一脸见色起意和软弱无能干啥啥不行。但在音乐方面还是继承了百老汇的优秀品质,哥嫂街舞和tonight都很吸睛,lighting和布景部门超预期发挥,拍摄也很有水准,如果把脑子放空来看,这是部很好看的音乐mtv。

  • 仪新雪 7小时前 :

    正负美国梦,情歌百货店,警局阿飞传;精致,老派,奢侈,希望以后有机会能大银幕补习61年版

  • 俊欣 4小时前 :

    场面调度都是大师级的,也几乎做到了突破舞台的限制,最大程度地展现出了歌舞片的魅力。可是总有些地方看起来很奇怪,无论是演技还是舞蹈,男主是完全比不过其他配角的,他的表演方式与整部片子的风格有违和感。虽然我没看过原版,但是这个故事放到当下这个时代来讲显然有些过时,再加上是一部歌舞片,免不了让剧情看起来很拖沓。除了视听艺术之外,哪儿哪儿都不到位,虽然被本届奥斯卡提名但我并不太看好。

  • 不翠芙 3小时前 :

    对于老故事其实没有什么文化共情。但斯皮尔伯格准确无误的摄影调度,你需要始终要仰视他。

  • 夹谷丹蝶 7小时前 :

    很完美所有运镜 光影 走位 歌舞的编排 都是丝毫无差,每个镜头都很精致,但真的全片看下来你会发现毫无感情!一个优秀的音乐剧摆拍壳壳。(男女主选角不可)

  • 婧雅 4小时前 :

    在国家利益与善良内心之间最后选择了后者……同时也选择了悲惨的命运……老老实实去非洲多好……

  • 卫芷毓 8小时前 :

    除了把相对稳定和谐(冲突和危机通过影调和色彩来强调)的社区面貌打造成了更具现实质感的废墟背景,对文本几乎没啥新的阐释。然而提最佳导演没太大问题,至少调度上不输旧版。

  • 仍秋柔 1小时前 :

    故事虽经典,当下看确实稍显老套。然而抛开剧作自带的硬伤,斯皮尔伯格的改编还是非常成功的,美术和调度都堪称一绝,不仅保留了音乐剧原本的亮点,还通过镜头提供了舞台所没有的空间感。

  • 书娜兰 9小时前 :

    AMC DOLBY 复古滤镜拉满,调度、摄影、剪辑技术都非常纯属,歌好听、舞好看,满屏漂亮的男性肉体。前半段精彩场面多得数不清:开场一组镜头,学校舞会,警局胡闹,海边夺枪——有这技术拍点什么不好?为什么要拍这么个老套故事?前半段我都忍了,后半段垮得一塌糊涂,就感觉导演已经不耐烦了,敷衍着赶紧把故事讲完就完了。选角也很失败,主要配角比男女主耀眼太多,特别是女主的嫂子,长得美唱得好跳得棒,把女主压得完全没存在感。中间有一段嫂子带着周围西裔女邻居们唱跳反对哥哥(以及她们各自伴侣)的段落不知道是不是新加的,很现代很喜欢。

  • 强信 8小时前 :

    斯皮堡大导出手,技术上确实无可挑剔,很多镜头调度都赏心悦目。只是这个故事实在是…感觉有点一言难尽,太傻了,中后段悲剧开始后还稍微有点感觉了。歌我也get不到。女二碾压女一,女主真的太迪士尼了…

  • 喻千秋 3小时前 :

    告诉我们一个道理:影评作业无论喜欢与否,套电影基础和电影史知识使劲夸就是了。

  • 叶曼易 8小时前 :

    Wow I guess I really don't like musicals. Why can't they be less stage-y and more dramatic like Chicago? Also there's nothing more dangerous and stupid at the same time than a gang of young men who think they are cool and serious and all they end up being are violent douchebags.

  • 文紫 3小时前 :

    最好的还是音乐和编舞,是每首唱完整个影院都在鼓掌的程度。绝对是今年好莱坞几部歌舞片里最好的。真的会让人感叹“这才是电影的魅力”。故事和前版改动不大,所以稍微感觉有些陈旧?最后结尾处理有点仓促。

  • 任承志 1小时前 :

    掀开历史上的黑暗章节,监视与被监视,伪装与拆下伪装。角色经历的心态变化与暗处波云诡谲般的对抗,借由主演出色的演绎变得异常生动(并且弥补了节奏拖沓的毛病);许多近景的给予也都在渲染这份窒息。没有高能转折,也并非激烈对峙;即使并不了解(或是知道)原型故事的来源,铁幕之下的风云变幻依然可以从中充分的感受- -可参考为更为冷静的《气球》。

  • 所竹悦 1小时前 :

    音乐剧好看不代表拍成电影也好看,哪怕他是斯皮尔伯格。国内看过音乐剧的人我相信都没多少,所以这种音乐剧改编成的电影大多数国内观众还是难以接受,尤其说西班牙语的时候还不给字幕对观众太不友好了,故事还是罗密欧与朱丽叶一样的老套故事情节,评分高不了。

  • 延祯 7小时前 :

    这种故事啥都不改放到银幕上太违和了,街头火箭队和鲨鱼队火拼真的像两群gay gansters在斗舞。‘罗密欧’上阳台的经典场景看着像徒手攀岩,配不上‘tonight’。

  • 凌欢 5小时前 :

    除了全方位360°无死角的史皮堡对场景,演员的调度和他强大的控场能力之外全都是full shit。没看过原版,也想象的出原版多难拍,而这版因为男女主角特别是男主角演技差到一直跳戏,歌难听,演技差。一直很好奇国产剧出了个"只看ta"的功能,这一次全用在主角身上,除去主角们的狗血,情爱之外,就是一场对旧时代的拙劣致敬了。

  • 弥承平 6小时前 :

    中途离场了 因为我老了 受不了天真派和大口音

  • 卫浩曾 9小时前 :

    只能说60年后带来的光影冲击更丰富了 就个人而言唱曲的体验依旧爱不起来 但不影响ATMOS的强劲表现;幕后花絮纪录片都有97分钟...

  • 伏闳丽 5小时前 :

    ★★★☆一直以来看歌舞片,都是希望歌舞场面快进到文戏,唯独这部相反。

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