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."
非常平庸的传记片，这部电影对塔米菲到底是什么态度？仅仅是写她的真诚吗？这够吗？从叙事来说，这部电影给不了解美国电视布道历史的观众来看就是个灾难。但是男女主角的演技实在是太出类拔萃了，尤其是又唱又跳又特效化妆简直如同变了一个人的劳模姐，毫无疑问，今年就是她的奥斯卡封后之时了！
一时难以分清到底是化妆技术更好还是劳模姐的演戏技术更好，硬件做的不错，但是人物刻画的一般，很多内心人性该挖掘的没有展现，观众更多的感受到的是塔米菲天真乐观的人生态度。这种人物传记片加上工整的套路一直都是学院派青睐的风格，虽然质量并不怎么样。奥斯卡赶紧把影后给劳模姐安排上，不要不识抬举！
你以为只是借上帝的名义骗钱的故事，没想到从始至终都是真的有信仰，劳模姐的奥斯卡影后实至名归
劳模姐和加菲表演都很不错，豆瓣评分6.5，显然偏低。
神奇的共性真的是能说明点什么问题的
看完还是比较有感触的，同时更坚定了我一直以来的个人看法：宗教是谎言，但神一定存在，并且信仰很美。影片前段部分剪接有些唐突，可能是出于时长考虑。Tammy Faye的眼睛是片名的主语，也是Tammy那逐渐被妆容改变了原貌的脸上唯一最接近它原始的样子的部位，也能够象征她一生中即使经历了那么多的风风雨雨，犯了那么多的错误，承受了那么多的争议；她对于神的爱和信奉始终未变。“劳模姐”Jessica Chastain对角色的诠释无可挑剔，最佳女主角实至名归；影片获得的另一个奖项最佳妆发也毋庸置疑。
三星给劳模姐的演技，最后看得好难过，人类是多希望有人爱着自己啊，无论是何种模样的爱，哪种爱，人类是有多厌恶自己啊，所以总是希望被谁爱着。加菲无论何时都像个大男孩。
重复过八百遍的剧情。卢瑟杀手男，卢瑟男友，卢瑟朋友前男友，卢瑟男友同事，卢瑟男警察，卢瑟超市男经理，甚至那个被陷害的水管工也是一脸卢瑟像。恐男做得很好（性别一换那就叫厌女或恨女，但男性就叫恐男，这叫zzzq），说实话，在这个性别对立越来越严重的世道，我是真心觉得干得漂亮，就让这两个性别隔阂越来越深，跟中西方一样，跟白人黑人黄人一样，跟各大宗教一样，跟阶层一样，大家一起刚到死。
#Sundance 22 full stars voted
怎么看也都是一部中规中矩的传记故事，给我们结果而忽略了过程，它呈现了一个疯狂的布道者，在盲目与先锋中盘旋，对于宗教与圣经话语的立场解读也没有什么新意，靠表演来支撑的片子注定是颁奖季对于演员的衬托了。
电视布道师庞大的信徒网络和财富帝国，蛮冷门的领域，无非也是人的起起落落和精神攫取。最后好像芮妮齐薇格的Judy，她们再回到舞台时会想些什么呢。
看到这么大跨度的时间顺序叙事我就知道：天呐又是流水账。全靠劳模姐一人撑起，她太好了，是看今年奥斯卡女主混剪都能感觉到的突出，加菲在她面前显得尴尬。Tammy Faye这个角色令我着迷，疑惑怎么会有这样一个充满能量却又脆弱的人，行骗天下却又那么真挚。
跟《里卡多一家》太撞了，彼此半斤八两，但演的也是真好
唐山风口浪尖来看这部片子，真得是另一层的女性恐惧。片子已经很短了但是本身节奏确实过慢。讲实话女主丈夫前期相比很多人来讲要稍稍好一些…… 但最终还是girls help girls和女性反杀才能胜利。都已经知道连环杀手的存在，丈夫该上点心啊，或者把女主先送到相对安全的地方不要让她长时间独处啊！女主还是回纽约独美吧……
为了男女主的演技给好评 从小缺爱的女孩 只是想依靠上帝指引方向 有没有深刻的挖掘 但能看出来基本形象化妆都还原了现实人物 以上帝之名 误入歧途重整人生的夫妇
最后一幕竟然看出了《玫瑰人生》里马良那种带着破碎感的小女孩般的倔强。要知道劳模姐演的经典角色大多是女强人、精英女性，营造破碎感这次有点惊喜。啊我是多么爱这些大女主反手整一个破碎感。一整个被迷住。（突然开始想念马良的小鹿眼的我
开头还有点复古的感觉，结果后面越来越单调空洞乏味，充斥着刻板偏见和陈词滥调。
以纪录片的形式拍电影，让电影既有纪录片的严谨叙事，又不失喜剧的趣味横生。
平平无奇的一部“偷窥”惊悚片。女主的第六感有人在跟踪她，其他人都不信，女主和男友因此产生矛盾，就在女主决定远走之际，坏人抓住了她，最后女主坚强反杀。过于套路了，没啥惊喜与看点。我想的是，如何把这个故事编得更有意思。比如，男主才是那个坏人，每天假装去工作，其实是悄悄跟踪女主，女主越害怕，他越开心，满足一种心理扭曲的需求。或者，女主精分，她的另一个人格在跟踪她自己，最后她自己杀了自己。
对查斯坦刮目相看，之前一直不理解为啥叫她劳模姐，这部充分体现了什么叫演入骨。加菲这部没有摆脱窠臼，好在倒数时刻在另一方面有所证明，不然就太遗憾了。
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