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."
超级现实！叙述手法我开始没理解… 确实有点乱了哦😯 我们小时候都不想变成普通人，但又随着时代波浪趋于平庸，觉得是无可奈何的事。曾经志同道合，甚至是你的启蒙的朋友现在也变成了普通的大人，只有你还一个人还留在原地。好像在说我哦，但我完全已经接受自己变得普通的事实了～没有按部就班的变成那样的大人不过也是我没有跟上罢了，并不是我在坚持着什么哦。 🏠话说取景地都太太熟悉了！最后一段在东口拍的（我以前打工的店附近，晚上的路太熟悉了）。从新宿打车，在円山町附近下车，然后走到渋谷TOWER RECORDS走到原宿Larforet。不过结尾又回到渋谷駅我不是很理解… 很多人把它跟花束比较 但我觉得比💐好看2倍吧～ 可能是💐演员演技还是差了一点 笑笑
还是老生常谈的话题，与生俱来被灌输的观点是否真的是对的，盲目的民众，盲目的相信，一代人传一代人。这其实都是政治隐喻，不能深说。
-动画制作还是没得说，属于世界顶级水准。
1.开玩笑，长得跟无牙仔如出一辙的大红怎么可能是bad guy？2.怪兽不吃小孩真的是铁则 3. 这个梅茜除了外表，哪里像个小孩呀 4.我也想要一个自带头灯的小蓝啊！
故事虽然老套了些，但拍得挺不错，喜欢两人和小红的那趟奇妙之旅，美好。大团圆的结局永远不过时~ps，如果最后王国的造谣史能稍微展开讲讲就好了，有点草草收场，全凭小黑妞的一篇小作文演讲有点儿戏，如果能最后再欺负下坏人就更好了。
主角是年轻版的瓜哥吧hhhhhhh
好感动，很难解释“大人”是什么，要抛弃一些时间一些人一些事情，要把这些全都抛在身后才能更向前一步，可是有些东西不能抛弃，有些东西不想抛弃，现在的我只能活在过去特定的时刻里，是曾经的时刻给予我养分，现在不过是过去的回响和观照，这样的我无法成为大人。就算看似正常地随着时间体面地前进，依然会在午夜的出租车上闪回过去的种种片段，据说临死之前人的回忆会像走马灯一样重现，是否活着的每一个时刻都基于前一个时刻的小小死亡？BGM就是我的青春，直接戳中我的心
制作上完全算的上精良，故事非常老套，但是放在动画上也勉强能接受
[视]卡通风CG，衣服材质，水面纹理，外墙花纹细节到位，画面信息量不大，经费花在刀刃上。故事简单低幼向，情感和戏剧冲突薄弱，主人公黑白配大叔萝莉，有萌有唯美，两栖怪兽戏份充足，怪兽造型设计偏简单，有巨兽对战，克系元素，一些镜头有壁纸级的构图
快乐的关键不是去哪里而是谁在身边。回忆年少，总是掀起涟漪无数。
叙事的确很像驯龙高手，海怪的形象真的超级像里面的龙。
粉色沙滩好梦幻！！
忽然天地间，人生远行客。一开始会觉得莫名其妙，但实则是个倒叙，最终成为闭环，称之为主角的“我”已过去的人生。普通也好，异常也罢，成为大人的时刻在某个节点，让你难以与过去的自己达成和解。为什么好，因为它够像我们的生活，追求与别人与之不同的体验又想找到自己的同好，为彼此共同的爱好沾沾自喜，不想承认自己的普通也不想认命做自己厌恶的那种人。站在年轻时遇见初恋的那个场所，果然还是败给了现实。
三星半。还行。但人物形象和海兽形象都不特别，剧情过得去但不精彩。
野心太大结果一部电影完全没收住剧情给人感觉结局非常仓促，老头的恩怨皇室的预谋怪兽岛的细节都可以展开详细讲讲，有点可惜
跟《驯龙高手》的梗差不多，不卖萌，不玩梗，规规矩矩做情感线和成长线，叙事节奏很不错。可惜它的收尾是那种过于好莱坞的时刻，暴露了低幼化的定位。
太老套了 不适合成年人观看 一个六岁的小女孩动摇了一个二十多岁一直坚持的信念
[视]卡通风CG，衣服材质，水面纹理，外墙花纹细节到位，画面信息量不大，经费花在刀刃上。故事简单低幼向，情感和戏剧冲突薄弱，主人公黑白配大叔萝莉，有萌有唯美，两栖怪兽戏份充足，怪兽造型设计偏简单，有巨兽对战，克系元素，一些镜头有壁纸级的构图
最好看的是小红大战螃蟹。
小蓝也太可爱了吧！
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
