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."
真的不错，高潮部分几乎可以跟《比宇宙更远的地方》最后那集并驾齐驱，不过结局稍微有点，还是更想要人形的呀。
典型的迪士尼動畫電影，歌舞、動畫技術、人物塑造都做的很飽滿，主角的姐姐伊莎貝拉外型根本是拉丁版樂佩公主，換個髮色和膚色就是新公主了。《拉雅》是透過冒險拯救家庭，本片是在屋子裡尋找家庭分裂之根源，在房屋崩解之後全員同心協力重建，影片格局之小，從頭到尾就圍繞在這充滿魔法的屋子，有魔法才有奇蹟，但有奇蹟仍需要有人來揮灑，魔法才有它真正的意義。因此，全家唯一沒有魔法的Mirabel，反倒成為拯救這個家的關鍵。沒有魔法，不代表你一無是處，只要有心，仍然可以對這個家族有所貢獻，開創自己新的可能。外皮是修補家族分裂，內核是修補祖孫倆關係，萬萬沒想到本片的歌曲也是林曼努爾米蘭達的創作，現在已經是迪士尼御用作詞者了吧！可以進戲院觀賞的迪士尼動畫，跟拉雅同水平但影片是迪士尼動畫近年來最好的家庭關係修復創作。
一个家和万事兴的故事，挺Asian Style
又是被迪士尼的偷懒解决冲突的情节骗眼泪的一部。喜欢大力士和花姑娘两位表姐唱歌的段落，好美。
骂声连天我以为有多糟糕，大家对动画片的深刻度要求真的挺高。很迪士尼很流水线没错，可美好也是很美好。小弟获得魔法特别美好的画面和米拉贝孤独的对比给我看哭了。讨厌不起来这部动画片。倒是蛮讨厌坐后面纸袋子一直响的观众。LMM的音乐创造好好听，只是咋回事电影院只有中文版啊，只能找英文资源再看一遍。另外，姐姐好像花木兰，外公没交代不够he。
我为什么每次都错过迪士尼的好片而给烂片贡献票房呢
2021.12.24 期待了好久 没想到24号早上就上线了 太快了吧！今天不要抬头 魔法满屋 寂静之海 爱情神话 根本来不及看啊。。竟然是迪士尼第60部作品 一般般 除了高超的技术 没啥突出的 发生在哥伦比亚很简单的故事 而且还有点牛头不对马嘴的感觉 故事就这么潦草的结束了？而且是一部歌舞片 全片感觉起码1/2都是唱歌跳舞吧。。应该是近期迪士尼最一般的电影 就是女主的奶奶遇到追杀他们逃跑 爷爷被杀死因为一个蜡烛发生了奇迹 给他们一家造了房子每个人还都能得到天赋 我其实也已经猜到女主没有天赋了 一天庆祝她的弟弟获得天赋 女主却发现房子出现裂缝蜡烛也有点熄灭了 就去离去的舅舅那发现他预知的未来 后来房子没了蜡烛熄了 他们却重新造了一个新房子却还是有魔法？那个大力的为啥突然没力气了？蜡烛又点着了？
我以为是墨西哥的背景 原来是西班牙 动画的色彩很棒 故事的人除了女主角和她舅舅真的很不善良
很喜欢这种AI题材，而且最后知道真相后感觉也很不错。
剧情小惊喜，虽然是老套的人与ai的故事，情绪依然调动了起来
又一般又温馨，浅薄但也温暖人心（过于理想化的世界）
电影最喜欢前半小时，后面有歌曲但是最后收尾太仓促，就莫名其妙Abuela婆婆和自己的孩子Bruno和好了，最后Mirabel的天赋和Abuela一样，没有特别的魔法能力，但能掌管好整个房子，打破了传统理念。
我个人很喜欢这部电影，即使有人会觉得它很无聊，但是里面有爱的家人，缤纷多彩的建筑，好听的歌曲，有意思的舞蹈，都让我的心灵得到了治愈～
剧情一般，不过也有一两处印象深刻的场景。音乐很赞。尤其We don't talk about Bruno.
人形自走BGM点唱机。老套又惹人喜欢，齁甜。
全片最出彩的是大力士姐姐那首角色歌，其他都平平。迪士尼讲故事还是这么浅，果然皮克斯是皮克斯，迪士尼是迪士尼。
吉浦康裕版童话电影，内涵深度不及细田守，大河内一楼挺擅长群像剧除了大人。日常的摇晃镜头和优秀分镜以及不知道啥气候人设会崩虚假现实，观感真的比泡泡好
好一般哦。歌也一般。平凡小孩不幸出生在精英家族应该怎么放过自己这种故事其实我很有兴趣，可惜这部片子讲的是家族情感，还挺俗的。不过最后拥抱所有家人这种主题出来之后我竟然还有点鼻酸。但是小男孩的动物对话技能点亮后开房间时，其他小孩说“It’s bigger on the inside”的时候着实让我激动了1s。感觉这片用了不少梗。
不过前面是歌舞片的风格，后面直接变迪士尼了。整挺好的，歌舞也可以遮盖一些剧情的不足。
吉浦康裕毕竟是从独立动画干过来的，电影中充斥着让人眼前一亮的好点子。但要想更进一步，相比点子的零散堆砌，更需要整体性的有机串联。
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