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."
（6.5/10）看来最近对于皮克斯与迪士尼本部差异的区分还能用，虽然开头看起来好像好像木兰呢（当然是动画版，真人版不配），但放心，这一部不会存在一个汇聚一切焦点的“公主”。即便完全不考虑导演的那部短片和这种东亚背景的设定。这么说就更接近CoCo了。死党与家人的群戏相当出彩，虽然也没什么意料之外的惊喜吧，在该满足观众的地方做到了合格。小熊猫太可爱了，周边必须入一波。
妈妈熊好大啊哈哈哈哈哈，阿姨熊和外婆熊怎么也那么小哈哈哈哈哈，结尾太神了
▫️因为是线上流媒体发布没有上院线，这部长篇肉眼可见透出“预算不太够”的味道…比起这几年已经看习惯了的皮克斯迪士尼大制作，环境建模让我以为这是2010年出品的动画（Sign……稍稍有点可惜了！Pixar第一位长片女性导演加油！未来可期！
挺写实的，家庭里男的要不不吭声要不就不出现，结果孩子出现了心理问题还要怪是妈妈的错。留着熊猫吧，东亚女孩应当要学会愤怒
每个人心里都有一头怪兽，不想被人发现的那一面，释放出来活出完整的自己，还是隐藏一世？担心自己驾驭不了的母辈们选择了后者，美美选择了和怪兽共存，让原本可怕的一面反而大受欢迎。母女在竹林产生共鸣那段泪流满面，多少儿女在渴求父母的理解和认同的路上走得伤痕累累。 不仅情节深刻节奏又细又准动作丝滑度又上一个档次，谁能想到皮克斯还能把人内心里那头怪兽做到如此萌炸天，Pixar YYDS！！
我觉得最好看粤语版，次选国语，结合东方文化更加有代入感。母亲的期待，与女儿的“弑母”。电影时长稍微短了一点，剧情也相对简单，有意避开了一些本应发生的冲突。估计这次迪士尼和皮克斯定位的是青少年。 / 2022.3.15 家
太真实了，前半段看得非常难受。果然青春期的伤害是要花一辈子来和袭击和解呀
对父母不只有孝敬而成为父母眼中的学习好听话懂事的乖乖女，得到父母的肯定更是让父母接纳不完美的自己，释放最本真的自我，那个爱男孩，爱大声音乐，爱扭的女孩。
中式传统家庭亲子关系之成长的烦恼。。。
而我一直保持了红熊猫的样子 成为了家里的异类
我个人很不喜欢，父权家庭对女孩子的规训在这里被美化成了母亲的过度爱护，观影过程中满脑子都是excuse me？还不如前几年印度的超级巨星，起码支持女儿梦想的是妈妈
越是在幻想题材里讨论家庭关系，越是揭示出这一问题的绝望和可悲。李焕英，抱紧我，小妈妈，智能大反攻，青春变形记……实在是数不完了。
就问这么软fufu的小熊猫谁不想rua！！
是隔离，还是共存？经过痛苦的挣扎，她选择了共存。从这一刻起，美美再也不是那个只知道听话、战战兢兢匍匐在大人偏执愿望阴影下的巨婴了。她终于做回了完整的自己，虽不完美，但自由而强大。别害怕让别人强大，更别害怕让自己强大。解封别人，也是解封自己。
表面中国风其实是日本风的全面胜利，内容毫无深度
好不喜欢里面的妈妈 完全不觉得这是中国式妈妈 或者中国式亲子关系。 感觉更像是一种刻板印象
▫️以及这样毛茸茸的同学有谁会拒绝呢！！！KittenBox攻击我也想要一个！
比较喜欢里面那个拉美裔的小gay，虽然在影片前半段一直以反派的形象存在，不过可以看出他的社交地位实际上与女主角差不多。女主身边至少还有三个朋友，而他却只能靠着红熊猫的噱头才能吸引同学来参加自己的生日趴，这条暗线背后的人物状态很值得玩味
熊猫女孩很可爱，熊猫女人很威风，多元的氛围真美好
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