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."
彩蛋中，活着的阿娟并没有因舞狮改变命运，他仍旧打工，只不过心中有一个梦吧。
人物太丑了，剧情也一般。。。营销太过了，台词好尬，别动不动就炒作成国漫教科书了好吗？以前的国漫哪部不比这好看？
热血漫，挺燃的，导演很懂配乐，九连真人和椅子乐团的成名曲，还有毛不易的歌对剧情都有增色，该有的基础套路都有，该有的共情点恰到好处让感情持续上升，最后结尾的价值观取向很正，要相信朋友，做好自己的事，共同进步，再搭档才能跃升，舞狮是精神，是生活中的一部分，生活还是要踏踏实实地奋斗。
看的广东话版，果然更接地气些，虽然故事都是范式，咸鱼翻身也有星爷的影子，但这股不认命的劲儿还是很感人的，尤其阿娟去广东打工尝尽冷暖再来参加舞狮大赛就更燃，感谢电影里上演的奇迹鼓励着现实中的人，五条人和九连真人的插曲都很好。
热血并不会贯穿一生，但只要有过信念 就足以照亮灰暗的时刻，该上山下山，路还是在脚下。喜欢朴实生动的乡村镜头和结尾的克制。
最喜欢天台一节，融合舞蹈元素，跳到晨曦启明。“每一个不曾起舞的日子，都是对生命的辜负”
最最神奇之处在于，今天之前，我从来没有听说过这部电影，甚至都没注意到今天是平安夜（上班上傻了），而且，已经四年没有和女孩约会看电影过了。。。最妙的是，片子是女孩点的。。。回想起以前，因为各种原因，多数是贪图美色，被迫看过烂片不少。。。我不禁想，这是开始要转运了么？
虽然很套路，但是很燃啊！结尾太加分了，我无法创造奇迹，但是拦不住我无限接近奇迹！
它镜头流畅剧情完整，不模仿不东洋不西洋，用现代故事讲传统情怀，讲佛祖讲留守讲农民工，还配上白话客家话普通话的歌曲，看得感动骄傲，看得泪满面，把口罩都打湿了。这就是真正在讲中国的电影！大家注意阿娟去上海前的那个清晨，练了整夜的他再次听到内心的呐喊，同时，整个广州城里醒来的行路人也都听见了自己内心的声音。这是最燃最煽情的一幕，比片尾都棒！
喜欢里面所有的力所不能和所有的奋不顾身。让我们在没有勇气改变的人生之中衷心为别人祝福鼓掌。
剧情铺垫有点弱，有些台词过于粗糙了，包袱抖得比较生硬。后半段进入佳境。美术方面算是精良了，对城乡环境的展现，又实又美。
但是分开庸作和佳作的差别就在于套路之外的部分。
看完 感觉啊音效和美术都很好啊 尤其音乐之前国产动画基本没有人注意做环境音效 甚至音轨用的都不对，或者根本不知道整个故事发生在哪个城市 没有任何背景落脚点 这片给人感觉就有很浓的岭南广东风情，bgm是融入整个故事的，不是为了插曲铺满而铺满的，歌词和音乐人物是互相对应，这一点很难得
听说广东仔眼睛都长这样...配合人教版教材做意识形态渗透？姓孙的，我祝你后代全长人教版数学书里那样
病猫崛起，这激动人心的鼓点能把每个人心里的雄狮唤醒！前段有多丧，后段就有多燃！影院里我一个爆哭，就算是烂泥的人生，也一定要赢一次啊😭
电影的英文名是《I am what I am》，进取与激励贯穿全篇，人活着得有精气神，不论是正在崛起还是逐渐没落的事物，要去相信，相信努力的价值，只要心中的鼓点不会断，我们都可以做一头雄狮。
对工地的打工生活、街井人物，都是不加修饰的白描，鼓点和舞狮、少年人的奔跑，则是浓墨重彩的渲染。木棉和热带的阳光，画面的美好扑面而来。有一些尴尬的句子，尤其少年不断背诵李白的句子问李白错了吗的时候，可能是我最出戏的时刻，毕竟当代网络文学的文化素质的天花板就是背唐诗，没想到动画片也这样子。
背咸鱼跑在乡间，拎行囊住下下铺，不是一个心境
跟想象要看到的东西完全不一样，写实感，岭南风物和城市景观，构图，视角，狮头张开的嘴里看到的世界的形状，光线，清晨的楼顶，走进大厂的人群背影，运镜调度，舞狮的动作太好看了，一小时之后的情节情绪动作之流畅，结尾的干净利落余味无穷，想起30年前在电影院看过最早的电影黄飞鸿系列，也想起今年年初看过的小伟。有很多不喜欢的地方，音乐太满（椅子和五条人用得都不好啊，只有最后九连那首恰到好处），前半部分太散，台词还是糙，人物还是不行，议题还是蜻蜓点水，但是还是打中了我原本最不喜欢动画的两个点，是一部特别适合在大银幕看的动画电影，不爱动画星人的真诚推荐~
我们终于有了自己的热血漫，天台舞出我人生那段真是一气呵成，音乐的设置也暴露了导演是乐夏粉丝，莫欺少年穷，他们终归要被人看到，闪闪发光。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
