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."
2.5 这感觉像极了春晚，我想看的不过是一台出人意料的好戏，结果来的又是一坨无数层次各种强扭自我感动的屎。
太可爱了太可爱了太可爱了太可爱了！！！！！！！！
Pandawalkers. 上一次释放自己还是狼行者，上一次毁天灭地还是天气之子，上一次和妈妈说It's ok还是去年的小妈妈。妈妈说你永远是乖宝宝，爸爸说红色是最幸运的颜色。她一直我们身上流淌，她一直都被切割、避讳、压抑，但是我知道她就是我，她可以看到一个新的世界。
你信不信老白和倪虹洁发生过，就你对一夜情的态度。 你信不信老乌的罗马故事就像你信不信爱情。
5/10。前有纽约女孩养大红狗，后有华裔女孩变小熊猫。又萌又闹腾，东方式家长的控制欲被无限放大，阻止去看演唱会而毁了足球场，明知是动画的夸张但就是不舒服，这个问题和短片《包宝宝》是一样的。最后的落脚点是卖熊猫玩偶。
喜欢的原因在于：它对上海近乎吐槽式的刻画，跟我想吐槽上海的东西，一模一样。它太上海了（鞋匠就可以代表全体上海人），可以作为城市情景剧看，所以很开心，不用想其他。
看了个开头就弃了，什么年代了还演女主恋爱脑这种设定。一开头就下跪场景更是下头。无力吐槽……
还是那句话，看书要看古书，现代畅销书就是渣渣。看片屏蔽好莱坞，拒绝评分诱惑，吃菜要避免连锁店。总之，直觉还是更管用，拒绝一切宣传与评分，垃圾才需要宣传，精品都需要淘。
两段餐桌戏棒呆，顶级群像，一流对白，你来我往，酣畅淋漓，妙趣横生又生机勃勃。一边看一边想夸导演，看得出用心挑选的一枝一叶拼出的精致和市井，感受到满满的生活感，像是你身边的、早已熟悉的大叔阿姨一样自然，还有那种动人而又稚气未脱的友谊；又一边想夸编剧，竟然写出了那么令人惊喜的烟火词，能在平凡的一幕幕间妙笔生出花，完全展示出了方言的魅力和生命力所在，看完脑子里一直回转着“灵”和“钞票”俩词对我产生的奇妙冲撞感。发现编导一体，想比烂大拇指👍🏻。谁说中年人的市井爱情没人爱看？剩饭都有猫抢呢。
多少年过去了，美国人眼中的中国人还是没有什么变化。不知道该感慨美国，还是感慨中国。
不负期待，满意收获！皮克斯的三维动画技术真是太出色了，毛绒绒的巨型红色小熊猫实在是太可爱了，萌到爆炸！作为有电影院情怀的影迷，从2012年《勇敢传说》至2021年《夏日友晴天》，除了国内没引进的2015年《恐龙当家》外，每部皮克斯动画电影长片都有去影院观影（或初看或重温或多刷），可惜如今又要多一部2022年《青春变形记》了。P.S.：英语原声版观看完毕，准备和小朋友们再看一遍台配国语版。
说你不贴近生活吧，把字打出来又删掉，看到别人给点的赞立刻心花怒放，这事我都干过。说你贴近生活吧，一个大老头子，天天去喝奶茶，就算是上海老头子也跟开玩笑似的。
I am who I am, and you? 迪士尼和皮克斯的一部優質青春性教育片，red panda既有隱喻初潮的亞洲女性，中文譯名「小熊貓/貓熊」又指向青春和華語區文化。包辦式的家長永遠都是打著「為你好」「為家族爭光」的旗號行惡，難道都不能擁有一點屬於自己的生活嗎？「去勢化」男性的缺席/失聲也意味深長。荒謬、戲謔、詼諧、刻板印象，卻非常值得一看！
压力来自母亲家族式的期盼和控制 小熊猫茸茸 Abby表情包 竹林bgm中华风 不是青春就该有叛逆 而是不要轻易抛弃自己的个性 朋友偶像我都要
一些因为文化偏见就打低分的人，真的好可怜，如果我们做一个讲述美国小朋友的故事，又能做到多百分百接地气呢？迪士尼近年来愿意挖掘题材，为世界各国文化发声难道不值得鼓励吗？某些人请你们收起盲目的名族优越感吧。
太谄媚了。风格比迪士尼还迪士尼，夸张的色彩，夸张的动作。还有比美国还美国的叛逆。入籍美国的华人就是美国人了，要是以中华文化为羞耻，那就干脆全面美化好了，非要拿“中华传统”出来扭曲一番，就有点过分了。不就是为了用“肯定多元”的美国标榜，来进一步地对美国文化进行谄媚和效忠嘛！
三姑六婶太精准了 妈妈怪兽的刘海很棒。皮克斯的三维作画自从怪物电力公司之后就打开了一种在光滑人物和毛绒人物之间的辩证 因此这片子同时还是皮克斯动画在自己的怪物与技术约束之间的斗争
从青春片的角度上看中规中矩， 不太明白为什么受到追捧。西方对儒家文化的看法可能就是影片里这种，family fisrt，duty first，以及各种学霸吧啦吧啦。其实挺缺乏深入理解的。我看有人说加拿大华人就是这个样子，我是不了解啦，我就是觉得这个电影太黑白分明了。不如李安。
电子宠物年代的青春期啊 不知道快要三十岁的Mei现在咋样了 估计也不是个干脆的成年人
迪士尼狗公司不做人，这么好的动画，居然不放院线走流媒体。希望能拿明年的奥斯卡最佳动画长片。看预告就知道是我喜欢的，没想到正片如此精彩！对中国式母女关系做了一场生动的展示，看完真的只想到处安利！
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