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."
幸亏我先看了一眼，要不然就跟孩子看了。
前半段的海马兽大战耗尽全部经费。后半段全程注水，不论是分镜还是大场面都远不如前半部，是不是被后期投钱的公司绑架了？我甚至觉得结局都是被绑架修改了？浓墨重彩讲海兽大战的电影，是反战？鬼都不信。
去电影院看会很适合，色彩明快，故事清晰。剧情有点套路，结局也太童话，大团圆来得太快。但现实既然这么惨淡，为何不片刻体会一下，这不真切的美好。。。假装自己只有五岁🙄
很棒！回忆青春题材，形式比较新颖，显得没有古典的深情，但也是时代的气息吧。柔弱容易受伤的气质啊。音乐也很棒。情感浓度
想起千禧年间的港产青春片。一地鸡毛无法全力奔跑的中年，最终还是变成自己曾经讨厌的普通的样子。在回忆中倒带着青春，像漫长炎热的夏天，在吱吱呀呀的老风扇下度过一个个无所事事的白昼。画面支离破碎又色彩浓烈，旁白是脑海中那些“无法成佛的文字”。
人类没救了
当CG水平不再成为限制动画发展的短板后，电影里的底层逻辑、设定和剧情便是了。华丽的画面之下是经不住推敲的因果关联，牙签一样的铁矛可以轻易刺死一头巨兽，几十年的家国血仇能简单被解除，资深猎人连条巴掌大的海鱼都抓不住，战船上允许不止一个女人登上甲板，no offence…诸如此类大小无数问题，把本片的水平拉低，虽想表达的很清楚，但瑕已掩瑜。可惜了，比《魔法满屋》的问题还可惜，真是可惜了这技术。
比预想中好看诶，尤其是海兽的质感，大螃蟹看着老好吃了。小蓝也挺怪趣的。小女孩一如既往的圣母，最后锤王室的证据也很草率。前半段两人落海后跟海兽对视的镜头真的吓死人……
还是很精彩的，反战动保都是我喜欢的题材。虽然CG、分镜运镜都想当的细腻，但是制作上还是很网飞，没有迪士尼大气。处处都透露着算计，小细节上给足了料，大场面上巧妙的偷工，预算省了，你又不能说它粗糙。剧创上抛弃了可以让故事更精彩的设定，可惜了。网飞想要在动画领域跟迪士尼角力，还是要大气一些，得舍得花钱才行啊。
脑子里无法停止想象男主在小红亮相的时候抬起下巴「Oi，Cunt！」.......我完了我
平庸+无聊，前半小时就及格了，结果后面观感反而有下降，好莱坞也不会做动画了么？
像在看海洋版的《驯龙高手》故事走向太好猜了，握手言和与点到为止的卖萌，刚刚好！但看到后面，政治正确的味道就越来越浓了。动画片还是轻松愉快单纯些吧。。太过于输入某些观点会让人越来越反感….看看大怪兽不香吗！
又是这种伪装成冒险故事的儿童环保题材，小女孩咣咣一说，民众就要造反了；在医院里女孩居然要拿刀要刺杀船长；我想看亚特兰蒂斯那种正统的冒险故事啊。值得称道的是第一场战斗，场面动作值得称道，怪物是致敬路飞吗。全片分为：白鲸记、公路片、金刚三部分，尤其公路部分过于平淡，金刚部分应该写成劝说老一代船长；其实即便是驯龙高手那套逻辑现在看也是有一定问题的。就拿它当特摄剧那么看
驯龙高手模型再利用，作为权威话语构建的荒谬性祛魅童话挺好的
这片就是奈飞提高电影库存量凑数的，连最基本都特效都烂透了，对比就是我们骗补的院线动画，能让这种电影评到7分真是耻辱。所以啊，看到我这条影评的就别看了，白白浪费两小时生命
萌萌的海兽，老主角和老船长的传承与理念对抗，小女孩发现了是皇宫制造矛盾挑起人类与海兽的斗争，振臂一呼应者云集。
夏天就是要大海！怪兽！冒险！！Aye aye captain!
画面三分剧情扣一分，天真善良大喊”I have every rights”的少女咱们就是说梦回“环保少女”了，不是说保护动物的主题不行，前期铺垫不少以为有什么大冲突高能剧情呢结果一顿嘴炮输出，突然就民众幡然醒悟敌方落荒而逃了？？？你们西方国家真这么无脑怎么现在又开始讨伐环保少女了捏🤪
小蓝好像一条会点灯的狗，谁能抗拒这种小宠物呢！
3.5。「I'm going to live a great life.」王国虚构故事，引发了海兽和猎人的战争，小女孩的出现拯救了两条生命。初看时会以为走海洋版《驯龙高手》的路线，但实际上也差不多。喜欢这个故事的中段，在海兽脊背上的航行实在是太浪漫了。
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