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."
ron真实可爱极了
又有趣又暖心，每一个社恐包括我应该都会想要一个Ron。就是第三幕角色和情节的bug都有点多外加强行催泪……但是反派角色真的不是在cue小扎吗哈哈哈哈他看完会不会很生气啊哈哈哈哈。这片可以和今年上半年的《智能大反攻》对比着看，殊途同归地走向了对机器/算法控制人类生活的反抗，最后的落点一个是家庭一个是朋友，很真谛了。
多好的反社交网络宣传片，科技要服务于活生生的人，而不是凌驾于人之上制造一个个隔绝的屏障，交朋友完全不需要这种消费主义陷阱
连特么动画片都要讲究政治正确，印度人统治硅谷实锤了，三星给Ron，剧情0星
我也想要个小Ron，不用保持2米内，10米也行啊
对大数据的讽刺有点意思，但故事还是挺套路的。Ron和大白有什么区别。
世人的孤独总是相通，空洞的数据单调乏味。意外的故障造就出程序外的自我意识，美好的世界却尽是浓妆艳抹的假面。自闭怪咖也能改变世界，无用废物也能成为瑰宝。虚拟的网络给予不了真实的快乐，自满与虚荣不过是逃避现实的懦弱，被科技奴役是逐渐剥离自我的存在，沉溺幻想便会沦为资本愚弄的傀儡。独一无二才是最真实的自己，直面缺点才是最可贵的成长，复制粘贴的契合永远比不了心与心的交流，与你相遇的时光让我懂得了真正的友谊。燃烧的烛火温暖了冰冷的黑夜，那份真挚的陪伴消释我内心的悲伤。当喜欢我变为喜欢你，当一条条代码化为友谊的养分，拦在现实面前的高墙才逐渐瓦解。失去你也正如拥抱你，你永远活在了世间的每一个角落……
2.5，略低幼也蛮套路的，全片看完没有兴奋点，讽刺科技之后更改算法跟科技交友😂
虽然有种弱化版大白的既视感，剧本有些老套，但还是做到了比今年的迪士尼（寻龙传说）和皮克斯（夏日友晴天）都好看。
看的台湾腔翻译版，和这个剧情及形象真的超级契合，阿荣确实比大白更容易被人所接受，在大数据的隐私不私环境下，还能和虚拟世界的媒介交上有真正的朋友，这是另一种童话吧。
个人评分6分（主观影评、不喜勿喷）
都不是些新鲜的元素，且同样套路的动画长片看多了之后，没有些新点子、新玩法，很容易审美疲劳。
小朋友人人一个泡泡机，就是手机变成玩具蛋，男主不善交朋友，得到的是一个有问题的泡泡机。没有新意。但是手机变成一个万能机器人的设想应该会实现，我早就说过了。
动画片里面的结局总是好的。
凑合，小朋友们看看，其实电影对手机观的看法已经过时
ET，还有点T2的味道。可惜票房不太好，可能和Mitchell vs Machine有点撞题材。
7/10。糖豆人般的小白情感最纯粹，它碎片化的主体意识无法联接网络共享，却为巴尼联系朋友而满街张贴广告，用取暖模式躺在巴尼的床下，甚至因低电量进入睡眠时，依然用尽力量将昏迷的巴尼带出森林寻找救援，相比掌握科技的巨头利用数据库凝视用户的需求和信息，或是教师不合时宜地让巴尼去操场上的交友椅，几乎令其社死的教育他不能没有朋友，畸形的社交准则使得孤立者更加缺乏价值认同，这和没有添加朋友功能的小白被讥讽为一坨没用的塑料，具有较强的反思意味。小白令发明家找到初心的独立性，在于不靠执行命令来充当小孩的交友凭证，它能记住每一张墙贴纸上巴尼对友谊的定义，将灵魂化为编码，最终通过复制自我的数据重载云端，实现了人与机器萌宠注重彼此主体的互助模式。片中载着羊开车、讥讽独裁者和全身塞满刀子的俄国奶奶，算不算一种刻板印象？
结局的处理方式太怪了，正常不应该是让人放下机器跟现实的人做朋友吗，居然是优化机器让人能更好得跟机器做朋友，不可能每个人都喜欢小白这样的朋友，这很不合理
没抓住我的爽点，白浪费时间。最后孩子们小小年纪就带个机器娃娃，提前感受当家长？！
今年看过的最好的动画片，不但讽刺了某些企业家（南山必胜客说的就是你），还阐述了不能依赖社交媒体交朋友的真谛，就是这个机器人长得太像某鹅了
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