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."
冰冷的复制制度下，毫无人德可言。。。结局是本体假装复制体活的概率大一些？太可恶了，自己的复制体取代自己还要给自己的复制体付钱，气死。全家人只希望拥有心中所想的女主无情无义
救……Aaron比女主矮，我看的真的很想笑……
中间本体去买衣服回来的时候手机摔了，屏幕都碎了花了，当时给了个特写镜头，我看到这里还以为有什么特别的结果并没有。直到结局的时候有个特写镜头，活下来的本体用的手机就是本体之前那个摔过的手机，屏幕都是花的。明显是本体活了下来，如果是克隆体活下来根本没必要用那个摔过的手机，结局也不必给特写。最后她哭，是因为母亲说买变色隐形眼镜给她，她知道还要扮成克隆体跟母亲还有黑鬼生活，最感到人生的讽刺。这么明显，认为是克隆体活下来假扮本体的，你们确定有认真看吗？
女主成了替身的替身！创意是好的…就女主像机器人一样背台词…
拍摄成本应该很低吧，但我喜欢这个故事。每个人的一生是独一无二的，如果可以替代，那太糟糕了
21_174。太久没看了吗，我觉得好好笑啊，特别是有些特殊化妆没有乌黑麻漆做掩饰而露出来时我都要哈哈哈哈地笑出来了。（对不起没看三就看了四我会补完的）确实是鸟语那段还有点意思吧
克隆体其实和本体无论外形还是性格都是类似的，她出生的那天就知道自己必须比本体做得更好才可能替代本体。所以对男友温柔，主动讨好母亲，更注重仪表礼仪。从两人徒步本体训练一年都跟不上克隆体来看，克隆体的锻炼绝不比本体少。她的大哭，是因为所有的努力都是违心的，她和本体一样不想一辈子只是活成别人心目中的好人标准。转盘路上，不会开车的她连逆行都不明白，也许她的人生，根本就是一种知难而上的逆行，无法回头。
二重身的概念也不算新鲜了，这部也不外乎是对其所带来的伦理问题进行的又一番讨论。反正就，找星云来演是正确的，小粉这位私教真的好负责哈哈哈。
《天鹅挽歌》类似的设定，克隆人有了活下去的意愿，身边人也喜欢上了克隆人。在决斗来临之际，克隆人毒死了本体，用本体身份活了下去，但是带给她的是无尽的枷锁，循环着本体的痛苦。
"星云"大姐演绎双面；....为你妈男朋友选那么磕碜和油腻的？
虽然故事整体呈现的逻辑不那么写实、现实，几乎没有科幻可言，但是一本正经搞笑和讲故事的风格，让我觉得比那些虚伪的主流故事意外好看。
我还挺喜欢这个电影的。当一个更讨喜的克隆人在自己的生活中取代了自己原本的地位，自己、家人、爱人，和这个克隆人会做何抉择。
致命录像带依旧是我最爱的伪记录系列，出多少我都看。
5.5
本体花光所有积蓄和一年时间去学格斗 结果心太软 在决斗前夕被复制体毒死并冒充 结果复制体如愿过上本体的操蛋人生 傻逼男友+傻逼母亲
用卑劣的手段赢得“人生”又能怎么样，还不是被所有不熟悉的工作、衰老、还款、病痛、情感折腾的满目疮痍。哪有生来就是啪啪啪吃吃吃被母爱环保的Ann日常，感受成年人的无奈吧～
电影院不会有英文字幕版.也许是因为《火药奶昔》里的女刺客还不够出名。
我觉得结尾段挺出彩的，根据细节克隆体应该一直暗中观察学习本体的生活方式，用一年的时间酝酿好了怎么杀死本体，但是杀死本体又有什么用呢，即使不喜欢依然要继续本体操蛋的生活，不能按自己的方式生活这样还算活着吗
结局复制体落泪 回到表层我只能解读成愧疚 然而之后才知道 是被迫接受人生的痛苦
这片子整体的氛围感拉满了，每个人都和机器人一样。整个立意都挺特别的，但表达方式上都挺平常的，总之很值得一看，给我惊喜，但也没那么漂亮。。。
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