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."
期望值过高引起的小失望。在英加都错过了现场，最后寄托于电影院里的呈现，两位大牌妈妈的表演都在线，但故事本身的表现却有说不上来的无力感
音乐很好听，但故事本身很狗血。特别是中段you will be found的高潮还是建立在谎言的基础上。
歌是好听的，故事也有感动的地方，但是改编的就是感觉有点水土不服一样的不和谐感，有点难以共情。
Ben Platt的实力不容置疑，唱功和演技都相当在线…但电影版…不知道是不是老爹用力过猛，为了突出儿子的主角地位，请了一帮超级大牌来做配角，却把剧中两个母亲的曲目删的一干二净，感觉人物瞬间扁平化…实在是可惜。
天啊。跟舞台劇比起來天壤之別。Ben Platt 真的無法演高中生。
剧院哭成傻逼的我，这电影期待了好久。可是看完好失望啊……
原本我认为这剧情会很尬，却想不到我接受了。
还不错，从开始的撒谎开始就在担心，揭开真相那天会如何如何，结果来了个很自然的坦诚画面，不得不说出自己撒谎了，一切都是为了康纳的家人，开始撒谎也是后来坦诚也是，甚至还为了他们去找有关康纳的任何一点小事，寄给关心康纳的人，最后也赢得了佐伊的谅解，并真正去了果园，写下了致自己的这封信！埃文的坦诚还有一点，告诉了他妈妈他当初是自己松手的，他想自杀的意图，得到他妈妈的谅解很重要！有人支持他才能真正走出来。
改编自曾获6项托尼奖音乐剧，探讨青少年抑郁症、自杀和社交网络等。但主创却照搬了大量原版唱段甚至舞台表演形式，没有合理转变成电影应有的视听语言，将说着说着话就唱歌的尴尬感无限放大，而与情节相关且更适合影视化表现的坦诚、私密而孤独的氛围也消失，令人遗憾。
假如我没看过音乐剧会给电影五星。然而看过音乐剧的我只能给四星了，对于alana这个人物动机的改动扣一星，即使我很喜欢alana的歌—黑人小姑娘纯洁无暇，就是纯粹的热爱social work。以及电影省略了两首我特别喜欢的音乐剧歌曲(good for you, to break in a glove)，再扣半星—青春片里，成年人的愤怒不重要🤷🏻♀️。然后加半星给一个细节的细化“I feel the branch give away” 是字面解释还是隐喻呢。最后的最后，Ben Platt carry全片！
看过剧版之后电影版实在拍得太差了
我只能说现实主义题材音乐剧还是不适合拍成电影在大荧幕上放，这电影就像所有歌的mv荟萃集锦，而且还是特尴尬的那种。电影拍的平淡如水，剧情不行，场景调度不行，剪辑不行，有的人演技不行，有些歌唱得也不行，真就全靠音乐剧的底子勉强维持一丝体面了。
2.5。14首歌里删掉了5首（appalling…），包括evan妈妈的一整条线被弱化。Alana的角色歌有拓开主题，但zoey/evan感情线实在太轻率。结尾比起剧版“不明所以的原谅”提供了具体的行动，然而回复的力度依然不能令人满意（可以说是本子的硬伤了）。
题材和电影本身的社会意义大于剧情，虎头蛇尾是最大的感觉，男二这么帅完全变成工具人。
很抓人的题材
为啥本来该是朱利安摩尔姨唱的那首Anybody has a map直接没了，一上来就把Waving through a window祭出来？怎么说呢感觉音乐和情节有点脱节导致居然看出了尴尬感（是因为好几首歌都是小本清唱开始的吗？歌舞片不应该这样吧），不再有tp剧版当初给我的感动，那个Sincerely, me的场景把我看笑了就觉得剧组好穷啊。
改编得很小气平庸 歌舞片段施展不开手脚 演员整体唱功确实差了一些 可惜了这个非常好的故事咧 比预期的还要糟糕 音乐剧版真的是我心中的音乐剧封神舞台
呃，选角灾难！饱受吐槽的Ben才不是电影版最大的问题，好莱坞明星不会唱歌才是真的硬伤啊！Requiem一首歌真的被毁到没眼看没耳听。
首先选角我都很满意(除了Connor实在不是很Connor)，剧情基本没有瞎改，其实音乐剧版剧情本身已经很鸡汤了，况且DEH触动我的点是能代入Evan的自身性格，所以其他部分改不改我倒没什么意见。很喜欢的good for you没有了有点遗憾。原创歌曲居然都挺好听，大家演绎得也很棒。
And I will always love you.
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