Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.
He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.
Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.
On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.
In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.
Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.
After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.
This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.
The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.
About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."
In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
洗白张伯伦？赢得了蛋的备战时间，法国为什么投降？敦克尔克大撤退。为最后的结尾扣三星
有赖原著，两个年轻主角的形象还比较丰满，否则这个故事真的是幼稚。很久没有电影正面描写元首了，样子不像，眼神挺瘆人，西姆莱倒是超像的。
很一般，食之无味，本应很紧张的一个历史桥段像闹着玩一样，双男主也拯救不了。
想由整部电影推导出电影最后结尾的字幕显然“证据”“逻辑”不足，只能说历史人物有多面性，相应地历史事件也能从不同方面解读与“挽尊”。
“如果一开始不成功，就一而再，再而三的尝试。” Try.Tre.Try again.
我们不能选择自己生活的时代，我们唯一的选择就是如何回应。
这可能是我看过最形神兼备的张伯伦，有血有肉有感情，并不觉得导演是给他翻案，希特勒就比较符号扁平化。有既成历史背景束缚，故事就难发挥，不过节奏气氛很好。
唯一露怯的就是希特勒的描写，演员的因素特别大。在该有张力的地方演员没有演出强迫感，使得对手的紧张显得有点莫名其妙。找不到特型演员，至少找个气场强的吧……希特勒的压迫感还没有护卫队的队长强。
本片对张伯伦是不是有美化的嫌疑？慕尼黑协议的签订充其量也只是让英国做好战争的准备，与张伯伦的妥协不值一提。本以为是政治片，却没想到是高质量男♂同片，有被磕到，他们因误会而看似友尽，多年后因英德签订协议重新邂逅，共吸一支烟，义无反顾前往希特勒地点保护你……最后那个保镖竟然也是反希特勒者令我震惊，德国金发男好帅，最后的回忆杀好伤
明知道结局却还是对小人物抱着一丝注定落空的希望。
张伯伦洗白片么？不过这个解读倒还蛮能说服我的就是了……p.s. 演希特勒的在“帝国的毁灭”里演的戈培尔。
设定突破了硬拗的极限，剧情极其无脑，表演超级浮夸
有惊喜，没有硝烟战火，简单几场戏却把希特勒和他的德意志帝国描绘得如此令人窒息和恐惧。
上了俩小时历史课…but收获了英德帅哥大赏
重塑历史记忆是很重要的一件事，先是《敦刻尔克：英国英勇战斗之地》，跟着就是《张伯伦：被误解的抵抗者》、《苏联：二战的发动者》，过两年再拍一部《希特勒：欧洲的守护者》。
二战+英德+夏日回忆+牛津校友+外交官×翻译官重逢，对不起但这妥妥的是带英男同片配置啊，建议加上《莫里斯》《故园风雨后》组成二战爱情三部曲。（Ps.杰尼斯的帅气程度让我狂喜，欧美年轻一代演员终于有一个正经大帅哥了，流lui感慨，请给他多塞资源！）
此时看这部电影，时机刚刚好，剧情与现实相交映照，产生一种奇妙的历史幻觉。
已经算是对原著不错的改编了（跟两位主演赏心悦目的脸以及chemistry很有关系
是部好电影，从另一个角度诠释了张伯伦，政治不是非黑即白，政治家是具有复杂性的，勒加特和保罗所处的职位尚且让他们决策时内心无比挣扎，况张伯伦乎？只是对于最后那句“通过《慕尼黑协定》争取到的额外时间让英国及其盟国得以充分备战，最终导致德国战败”，从斯大林格勒到柏林总统府牺牲的2500万苏联红军表示很淦
当所有人都能闻到战争时，它是不可避免的。能把平淡的故事拍成怀疑和恐惧的困局，历史是已揭秘的悬疑吧。Paul容易理想化狂热，Hugh is just Like A Puppy. 间谍活动约等于余情未了前任见面，打字员姐姐逐渐理解了一切。
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