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."
总结:观感不佳，＜二刷拉拉蓝
詹妮弗哈德森演得好，唱得棒，让这部灵魂歌后传记影片犹如好歌串烧一般，但也仅限于此，流水账式的叙事让人在没有歌的段落难以集中精力 ★★☆
刀疤哥爱情前传 一路向西 看过了，想看刀疤哥的爱情下传
还不错吧，可以说是反贪风暴4衍生的网大，几个香港黄金配角撑起的一部电影，剧情比较简单，围绕越狱展开，这一部的剧情是上一部的狱长进来想越狱，结果当然是没有成功，陈豪打了个酱油。
没想到可以拍3部，还是第一部最好看，这一部也勉强能看，至少不算超级烂片啦
4/10，老套路的成长传记，已经很难打动我了
这部电影逃狱人员中又加入了上任狱长邓狱长，但这次的策划却很简单，他买通监狱外人员，同时又利用想逃狱的贺俊，手段更加残忍。这一部中逃狱兄弟的感情更加深厚，有些人出狱了却还回来探望，滚筒因为自己的女儿也变得更加和善。比上部多了点儿悬疑氛围。
传记电影不是瞎编戏说洒狗血塞入大众喜闻乐见的感情线。JHUD凶悍的表达方式并不足以驾驭艾瑞莎的歌曲。
无独有偶，跟《梅艳芳》一样都是流行天后编年体传记片，难以避免的走马灯节奏，但Jennifer Hudson更幸运的地方在于，这个剧本除了展现Aretha Franklin的天赋和才华，还比较巧妙地围绕个人挣扎与救赎的主题，讲述她面对性侵、家暴、酒瘾，以及参与黑人民权运动的历史，所涉议题之尖锐，加上富于感染力的表演，在一定程度上弥补了编年体流水账的缺陷。相较而言，《美国诉比莉哈乐黛》通过截取天后的某一时期某一具体事件进行深入演绎的做法，会更符合当代故事片的审美。然而对于巨星的粉丝，编年体还是喜闻乐见的形式。
詹妮弗哈德森演得好，唱得棒，让这部灵魂歌后传记影片犹如好歌串烧一般，但也仅限于此，流水账式的叙事让人在没有歌的段落难以集中精力 ★★☆
本来以廖启智的财，斗曾江的势（权力），不会这么简单的，幕后的大佬（各方势力）会出来讲和的，但这里没有表现。如果最后的结局是幕后最高势力强迫曾江牺牲儿子以自保（保住爱民党），那就有意思得多，甚至是加一个桥段：之前最高势力强迫廖启智不再追究以致不惜除掉廖启智。
还行，就是质感太电视剧了，像TVB剧集里的一集，还有最后受不了的说教戏。
一生最喜欢三大歌手之一也有传记电影了！号称滚石第一人也该有部了。不知迈克波顿何时。。。。
请尊重逝者廖启智，名字打个方框吧多少，然后请方中信为了蹭律政强人的IP？叫一级指控为了蹭壹号皇庭IP？然后配音找的走心点吧！
看个情怀看个大概，开场来了个爵士群星家庭聚会，惊喜Mary J Blige客串演了Dinah Washington。
（啊啊啊啊啊，看错电影了，标错了。。。。）
监狱四人组两个出狱，两个还在牢里阻止别人逃狱，完全配不上这个片名。拍到第三部，编剧完全就是在用脚写剧本，剧情已经完全崩坏了。整个片子看下来完全就是莫名其妙。
大结局，监狱长变成了恐怖分子首脑。看彩蛋还要拍摄相关人物传记，这么烂的片香港人都能搞成一个IP，就像《反贪风暴》一样，无语啊
三部逃狱最终都没逃成。第四集不拍逃狱了，改派人物传记了。我投票滚筒！
第一部里挺害怕刀疤的，却在第二部里不知不觉地就把他纳入了主角团，觉得他应该是挺适合当朋友的人，第三部呢甚至觉得他是主角团里最鲜活的人，可惜相处时间太短了…
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