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."
这画风和这打斗画面，武侠感拉满，这是一部小小的网络制作动画，却蕴含着大大的江湖道义。
武打部分确实是很流畅，但是也仅限于此了，剧情很平庸，最无语的是最后反派一帮弟子在老大挂了以后反手全部秒认男主为新老大，这…西门仁棺材板盖不住啊！
好喜欢哦 怀旧得恰到好处 “孙协志秃头啦”真的笑到 陈老师的ED莫名得搭
全片一半都是打戏吧，这打戏看得我眼睛不敢眨，大气不敢出，精彩精彩。传统的武侠故事，熟悉的TVB配音，而且人物画风很像小说书上的风格，对于看武侠剧长大的孩子来说太温暖了。
蛮不错咯，近特的试听野心，一如既往的台湾风，新人值得鼓励
在COVID-19看SARS，莫名的时空交错，题材特别好，可却有一种强烈的无力感！演员有点用力过猛，导演差点火候
这个故事配这个片长，正好。总之无论错与对，游侠都消失了…
冷兵器的武打分镜超讲究，特别是最后一场对决戏，配合的音效也不掉价。我倒觉得西门府徒众迅速倒戈拥护新主的情节完全说得通，且有些惊悚的意味，随后的留白也给予了罗通黑化的可能性。西门仁和罗通他们之间对于民众、社会的理念差异不是善恶对立，包括君王的统治者原罪，罗影的影子身份，魏荣的白手套属性，江渊与各方势力的周旋，红娘在薛家的三年岁月，如果能抽丝剥茧地讲开，一定非常精彩。但受制于小体量，只好在动作场面中见缝插针，不免显得苍白和说教，人物也都趋于死板。能有这种野心就已经很不错了
（第一季两个配角的过去。剧情是挺传统的明末背景武打片剧情。打斗真是精彩。）
终于可以用动漫来表达武侠这个中国最传统最经典的电影门类了，武侠虽然也打打杀杀各种特效和可能违背运动定律的事，但毕竟还是自然力量啊，看惯了诸多神话和天庭什么的虚构神话故事，这样的真实的故事更容易让人动容，动漫产业特效这个已经是标准化流水线作品了，大概花钱就可以有效果，不再是什么先进技术的代名词了，所以还是回到好好讲故事上。剧本和故事其实一般，杀父后再复仇，最终正义战胜邪恶，画面很写实，是小时候动画片那种感觉，推！
可以算第一季《枕刀歌》的剧场版。让人眼前一亮的武侠动画电影。剧情比较简单，就是个少帮主复仇的故事。动画制作的技术水平挺高，角色设计和服装、武器设计漂亮，背景、细节比较细腻，不太喜欢女主的面部设计，色彩设计似乎也有提高空间。最惊艳的是动作设计非常干脆漂亮、流畅精彩，看得人酣畅淋漓，而且武戏时长很长。反派的配音有点九十年代港台剧配音感。反派的做事动机有点无法逻辑自洽，让人无法信服。
从很多人褒奖该动画打戏出众，鞭尸真人武侠来看，大部分人还都是抱着真人应该比动画精彩的固有观念，其实不然。私认为动画这一载体的优势远远高于真人剧，其人物动作的张力，五花八门的艺术风格，高自由度的运镜角度，都是真人无法比拟的。上限非常高，下限也可以很低。当然，该剧的武指无疑是一流水准。
比剧版完成度更高，情节更熨帖，打戏也更精彩。但仍难逃剧版俗套、矫情的窠臼。如果能找一个靠谱的编剧就完美了。
我想了想，还是只能给三星，这不是贬低。它的武打可以给四星，文戏要抠一星，所以只能给三星。你不得不佩服的是，它100分钟长，打了至少80分钟，这80分钟还没什么重复的，这确实很厉害。——有时候就是这样旱的旱死涝的涝死，强烈建议把动作设计送给雪中剧组，救一救那个尬。
绿衣服的小徐超帅。
一部探索归属感的电影，情感细腻，主题沉重。
呜呜呜呜呜看到最后眼泪狂飙，真的只有从小活在妈妈会离开的恐惧里的人才会懂小女孩的焦虑不安叛逆和恐惧吧？？我相信导演跟编剧一定一定有过类似的经历才会把有些感受刻画得这么这么准……“因为你的恐惧会变成我的恐惧，你的软弱会让我软弱”，不止是母女，亲子关系都在这句话里了。但话说回来，林嘉欣还是太美了，比贾静雯在瀑布里更不像一个病人，即使生病了还是如此明艳照人！像是灰暗里的一束光一样美丽……美丽到几乎让人出戏……
小问题其实挺多的，不过作为市面上少有的武侠类动画，打斗又足够精彩，这个部分其实很加分，值得去看。倒是希望能真的好好制作一部在电影院上映的剧场版（不要3D，千万不要）。
“云雷戟”与“落星石”
没想到能在一部国产动画看到这么原汁原味的江湖，虽然剧情方面颇为薄弱，但是犀利畅快的打斗让人热血沸腾，特别是击杀敌人瞬间转换的水墨风和绽放的鲜血真是加分，叶清张艺赵恩宇黎泓何的配音真是梦回90年代的TVB武侠世界，妥妥的回忆。
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