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."
任何追逐梦想的人都会恨有感触，这部作品试图回答终极问题“人为什么而活”。人生需要目的吗？活着需要梦想吗？拥有天赋是否意味着某种诅咒？李宗盛唱着“越过山丘却发现无人等候”，流川枫下雨中自言自语“赢了，赢了又怎么样呢？”……很难老少咸宜的动画，可以预见皮克斯在中国市场会继续遇冷。
一部真正能触及灵魂的电影。一片落叶原来都这么美，普通的蓝天白云可以这么好看，习以为常的披萨原来这么美味，下水道的热气也可以这么有趣…不要让任何事情浇灭对生活的热爱和热情。
六星
全程都在与我对话……暴击，哭的快窒息了
太好哭了！此片献给悲惨的2020，也献给所有热爱过生活又对生活失望过的朋友！如果说灵魂世界概念的设定是A级，那么最后一波波关于生活中那些曾活过，曾绽放过的花火细节的情感冲击绝对是S级的！一定要去影院看，看完感觉自己又可以与残酷的人生再战500年！
高纳终于实现了梦想，但他突然发现，他追求了一辈子的东西并不是他想象中那么高大上。
3.5 线条动画真美好啊… 可惜最后立意一下子低了。已经变得太圆满和“正确”的pixar可能忘记了并非主角的平凡人需要珍惜的，往往是人生根本不会有再一次机会这一事实（更何况给最后一次机会的方式还如此糟糕
你们怎么可以辣么对待认真计数的人呢哈哈哈哈哈
这是关于我们这个时代的，又一位大师笔下的纽约，远比《曼哈顿》《弗朗西斯哈》更瑰丽奇绝
皮克斯八股文，没有一处情节超越常规，没有一处写作突破匠气，只是主题切中并安抚了当代人的处境焦虑，然而这个东西七十多年前在弗兰克卡普拉手里就已经被讲述得登峰造极了，也正是它的普世性让它在时代和地域的可流转下变得平庸，可惜的是这种平庸并不能跟电影歌颂平庸的主题相自洽。
即便整部电影有着宇宙、灵魂、生之来处、天堂等诸多宏大华丽奇观的装饰与包裹，但内里却还是最为庸常的好莱坞式情节结构与人物交互。一通弹奏便获得了爵士俱乐部的表演机会，几句真心话就让母亲转变态度义无反顾支持儿子事业，主角最后一句“我为音乐/舞台而生”直接使得领队态度一百八十度大转变，全片都充斥着诸如此类的生硬而尴尬的人物情感转折，只不过这种直接而莽撞的剧情转折被皮克斯所塑造出的宏大奇幻异世界与光彩夺目的视觉设计所掩盖，不至于显得场面完全失控。并且结局设计亦出现了明显的顺拐倾向，既然电影立意在某种程度上是反心灵鸡汤的，那主角如果能在认清生活本质后坦然赴死而不是被这种是个人都能想到的俗套方法所救济来获得重生，那么整部电影的深度无疑会更上一层。如果说商业电影的本质是世俗神话，那迪士尼则将其发挥到了极致。
前半段一如皮克斯既往的巧思，对灵魂、个性、自我陶醉、迷失（对冲基金经理哈哈哈）、前世往生的趣解，还有三维动画中融入现代艺术的线条元素，都是值得称道的。
离导演前作《头脑特工队》差很远，创作者有一颗想要探讨生命哲学的心，却受限于影片的子供向属性无法发挥，本应被有力输出的普世价值观，同样沦为了服务于叙事逻辑的工具，横向对比“神女84”，那才叫“真诚”的表达，至于视觉效果的呈现，几乎不见想象力，只是皮克斯正常水准；所以...这次我可能真的要跟大家唱反调了
四五十年前的中国动画叫“艺术”。期待《大闹天宫》修复重映。
我没有任何否认存在纯粹的生之欢愉的意思。但事实上是，一个热情和目标被夸大和过度包装了的世界，其因为行将崩溃而祛魅的一刻，对它再度赋魅的方式是告诉你c’est la vie，你要爱它，体会它的美，就能将你从崩塌和虚无中解救出来。可是关键问题是how，问题是这种热爱其实是别无选择的选择，但它不该别无选择。也许这超出一部电影能讨论的，但绝不该是以这种野蛮的赋魅方式来呈现，是的，它再美也是一种野蛮。我确实不想，也觉得不应该相信，这一切是别无选择。
一碗有诚意的心灵鸡汤，并不是只有闪闪发光才叫人生。
这是关于我们这个时代的，又一位大师笔下的纽约，远比《曼哈顿》《弗朗西斯哈》更瑰丽奇绝
其实几个狐狸也不过是想让自己生活的更好些。
△小鱼问老鱼：要去哪里找大海？
除夕临近，看了这部“心灵鸡汤”式的皮克斯动画片，观感还算愉快，只是老套过多，欠缺新意。So so!
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