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."
故事太单薄，女主连挫折都没有，幸福而无趣的人生。
有些趴很clumsy有些趴明显就是lazy writing，有点浪费了这么妙的Columbian 魔法大房子（*wink*）设定，但在疫情已经折磨了全世界两年的当下，看一个两代Latino快乐跳舞找寻自我的miracle故事好像也很开心。
迪士尼水准之上，但相对于它家好的故事来说太贫乏了，以爱发电的主题内核快被用烂了，一眼见底的叙事走向，比冒险类的动画少了些华彩的段落，自我认同的部分其实也是千篇一律，但画面的流畅度，以及出类拔萃的配乐实在不忍心给出低分，轻松一刻绚烂多彩一如既往，这种流水线的制作团队，其他国家制作都不一定能达成，能多看一部是一部。★★★
这这这，看了个神马
迪士尼已经黔驴技穷不会讲故事了。魔幻哥伦比亚大地的绚丽斑斓真魔幻，没有魔法的少女拯救危在旦夕的家族，结果核心剧情如此空洞无力，全靠林漫威的美妙音乐救场。动感铿锵的大力士“压力之歌”，温腔柔调Sebastián Yatra的浪漫动人爱情之歌尤其深刻，果然情歌就该用西语唱！《Dos Oruguitas》有望成为又一经典迪斯尼动画歌曲。喜欢舅舅Bruno，外公Pedro超帅！！牵肠挂肚的祖辈爱情未达至《寻梦环游记》 的高度，Mirabel誓死保护的蜡烛也不知其作用。外公莫名其妙地失踪，到最后都没让他回来，失望至极。看完才知道Maluma配音了哪个角色，哭。
三星半🌟看的粤语版 Bruno是好听的！剧情还行吧
华丽的动画设计，Disney原汁原味的童话故事，再加上独特的文化注入，Encanto虽然对部分人群而言可能过于俗套，但也正是Disney忠粉喜欢的又一款造梦作品。
来自家庭的痛苦经年久月，而和解太快一笔带过就像在受害者的脸上再啪了一巴掌，无形之中为家族长辈和家族规矩又开脱了不少，难怪有些人看了很不舒服。不过全女性的动画人物设置倒是挺可爱的
一部披着魔法外衣的家庭剧，核心还是和解，即使没有魔法，也没有所谓的天赋，但每个人都有其独一无二的特质，但是剧作上实在太平庸，甚至有点随便了，矛盾的设置跟解决都可以用一首歌来完成，虽然这是一部主打歌舞的合家欢童话，但这样的处理就多少有点不思进取了。7
就，不知道故事主旨到底在讲啥。美国迪士尼想讲的家庭，和当下这个社会的家庭感觉已经很割裂了。为了某件事所以事情办砸了然后再通过自己的努力圆回来的剧情，也不知道到底是在讲个人英雄主义呢还是讲家庭集体主义呢
lmm不愧是饶舌歌手
如果最后是大家都接受了没有魔法的世界，我会给五星。
一直没交代外公等人为什么被追杀？故事暗示我们有钱了还要买没有魔法的房子。舅舅可能是给，一家子只有舅舅独身没有后代。女主跟花仙子大力士是亲姐妹。外婆气质拿捏死死的。
昨天看了两部loser成长的故事，剧本都不行。这部因为动画片制作水平在，色彩斑斓又有音乐；看得更愉快一些。但也就bruno no no让我想起林漫威是写了hamilton的人。剧情实在是各种生硬，结尾草率。
我们主角就是假装经历了一番艰难旅程，成长了哦——这未免太虚伪、太无聊了吧
姥姥，妈妈，姨妈，各种表姐妹，舅舅，五十年来老一代家长坚持的心灵支柱开始失效，越怕失去就越留不住，航行多年的老船开始出现裂缝，濒临崩溃。
试图复刻frozen/coco的样子，但是逊多了，不过相似的地方很显眼，当一个世界所有人都没有魔法的时候，elsa是另类，当所有人都有魔法时，mirabel是另类，和祖辈的隔阂实质上是两种价值观的对立，祖辈更像是初代移民家庭，一切为了family，family first，而M这显然更像是新生代的价值观，注重individualism，这世界上不是所有的事都可以被界定为黑与白，好与不好，家庭里的bruno和isa，还有那个weather mood的，都被designated，处理的如此简单，这两种价值观矛盾无法调和，但是迪士尼将这一切都简单化了，唱歌就解决了，坦白就理解了，这无法说服我，甚至让我觉得这么简单会很荒谬。well music is good
越简单越老生常谈的基础道理 不就是最难执行的吗 审美和美学太完整了
这绝对是迪士尼本部最近几年最让人失望的作品，故事的设定明明是非常有意思的，音乐也让人满意，但剧本从中段开始逐渐跑偏，槽点过多，连一个看的过去的故事都没有讲清楚，一切的一切看起来都非常莫名其妙。本来以为豆瓣6.5分有点过于严格，看完感觉还真的就值这个分数。希望这是迪士尼本部最低水平，下一部真的要加油了，不要再拿出这种糊弄人的剧本。这部要是能拿今年奥斯卡动画那今年的水准真的低的离谱。
迪士尼动画历史最差之一，外婆的形象太脸谱化了，非黑即白，没有中间地带。
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