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."
说实在的 一开始看剧情梗概和预告，预期放的还是挺低的，剧情走势无非是俗套的那一套呗，平凡少年通过自身努力改变了什么。但实际上，是 又 不是。好好讲故事，真好。五星给配乐给剧情给镜头。给狮头。给那一颗扬起的水珠。
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？
梦想的队伍有人离去，其他队员和教练在人员不再齐整的情况下都还沉浸在继续中，把离开的队员的梦想当做自己最重要的事去完成，反正这种羁绊我是不大信
好喜欢最后的结尾，在热烈的赛场与冰冷的楼宇之间，阿娟奋力一搏将残破的狮头挂在了擎天柱上，像是每个无名的人对生活宣战后留下的破损的战旗。
故事比较老套，但是在某几个瞬间感觉还是要热泪盈眶了。
2.初赛赢了后阿娟他们闹腾着去吃饭 狮头和大鼓就这样被滞留在广场的角落 舞狮者应该珍之
国漫中难得的现实底色，平凡生活中的平庸怒吼，奇迹虽未发生，但作为一种现实的象征存在于真实的生活之中。周边一群小孩子看得嘻嘻哈哈说说笑笑，好似只有我一人看得笑中带泪，死去活来。怎么还会有人信李白，怎么还有人不认命，看得数次哽咽，这个世界总是太寂静，听不到一丝愤怒与嘶吼，这个世界太需要这样一种勇气和力量了，尽管我们都将埋头生活，但作为一种姿态，能够支撑着我们度日。
二刷依旧破防，我们都知道让人感动的不是「咸鱼翻身」的美梦，是这群阿猫阿狗阿猴再怎么拼命挣扎都难逃社会的毒打。国漫崛不崛起是另一回事，惊喜于终于看到一部来自出土文化生出来的野蛮的劲，不再糟蹋神，不再去追求日化美化。而是朝着现实的题材来拍动漫，是我仍被社会毒打，我受尽苦难，我仍要一跃，去改变这不可改变的逆象。煽情啊，笑话啊，梦想啊，被社会毒打根本无所谓了。出于野蛮的顽强之物，才更难能可贵。
故事也没说太清楚，留守儿童到农民工，中年危机，都没有深刻挖掘。成品出来时空混乱，不知道到底在哪里，一边是省内打工几年不回家的父母，一方面是几月速成的天才舞狮少年，故事编辑可能不太了解舞狮职业（但凡看过黄飞鸿系列）和两广地区宗族观念。
挺好的国产动画，现实题材，不必都搞奇幻，也不必总要大而无当地去思考一些生与死的难题
故事本身很俗很俗，人的励志或奋斗是值得被看见的，只是把所有的特征聚集到一个人身上并且过多重复时，人物的脸谱化就会成为大问题，况且并未摆脱男权社会的桎梏，但好几处情绪都有被推起来，全靠音乐加成。
辛苦的打工人，即便睡地板还是没有忘却理想，晚上没人的时候上天台练习也很感人。我都要哭死在影院了~~~
燃烧吧，被英雄花砸中的少年！永远别认！永远骄傲！永远倔强！
刚看完点映，别看！真的！画面和动作很好但是剧情太太太无聊、老套了。
真的很棒！无论是从动画的技术，视觉效果，以传统文化舞狮艺术为基底设计动画色彩和场景，从比赛时的美工到动作捕捉的快速敏捷这次都好得无话可说。开篇是类型化叙事，虽然人物原型，台词以及出场人物和剧情都是非常类型化甚至在前边有一点尴尬，但可喜的是这次的剧本圆满地完成了一个故事，从事出起因，几次成长的转折波澜，将社会问题很好结合在一起，非常真诚完整地讲述一个故事。最触动的点在阿娟去城里时三人用舞狮欢送他，在阿娟前往上海打工的前一晚决定放弃梦想时最后一次舞狮追光，哪怕仅此一刻沉浸在与梦想同生共死的悲壮。结尾处理的非常好，即使将狮头套上了最高点，阿娟前往上海打工的命运依旧未改变，而这才是生活的真相。但那又怎样，从那一刻起阿娟的命运已经彻底改变了，只要有一刻，我们是闪闪发光站在属于我们自己的顶峰就够了
12/21@幸福蓝海香溢 8.4 今年院线片最佳。第一个长镜头卷开的明媚与自如就小惊，除前期叙事节奏稍瘦硬转之外（剧本依然是短板）无可挑剔，音乐做得太贴了，技术也是士别三日，尤其喜欢天台独舞段。上山下山，一朵木棉花。娟字雄起的暗线与遗憾对女性观众也友好。讽刺可能是明明宣扬国粹 & 少年强+践行新现实主义，却被自辱其华。
很私心，后三十分钟绷不住了，还有我好喜欢师母这种媳妇呜呜呜，哭哭哭哭哭呜呜呜
弄成宽眉斜眼固然是十分过时美中不足的，
一花一草，一招一式，一声沉默中爆发的怒吼，一场逆境中成长的洗礼。
2.4星，配乐和片尾曲非常好，但是剧情真的非常套路无聊，虽然后期好一点点了但仍然是我那个每一步都能猜到并且毫不意外的发展。如果能用做画面的用心程度设计剧情就好了。
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