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.
它们荒唐，胆小又勇敢，孤独，就像我们一样。如果不看电影真的想象不到，如此可爱、令人愉悦的作品背后，是一位屡次失去挚爱、长期挣扎在精神失常的边缘的艺术家。
冗长的亲情电影，林允儿很好看。姐姐去世是个没想到的剧情。
2分。两个三十多的演十几岁的高中生，纵然允儿满脸的胶原蛋白还是违和感很重。和父亲的线其实处理的不错，但是爱情这条线真的可有可无，我都看不出允儿这角色对主角有什么帮助。
面对几乎无法抬头的不间断的人生打击，还要从生活里发现美，是爱的力量。
隐藏在偏僻小村自建车站故事后面的家庭温情剧，家庭线特别是姐弟线感人饱满，但车站建设和男主的天才过程又太草率了，略拖沓。
爱有奇迹。姐弟情、父子情、恋情，淡淡的却又如此的浓烈。
很多設定太粗糙隨意，還有男主角完全不適合演高中生
为什么有尼克洞？？其实猫片一般都不大好看，这个倒是比一般猫片更多彩多姿一点…彼得猫的装饰画风格很漂亮，就是猫本身细看还是有点creepy，不大吃得消…
本尼拍什么都感觉像神夏……虽然最后的万华镜好评但又感觉这个放在电影里怪怪的（ 看豆瓣才知道监督是flower的监督 惊喜……虽然拍得不算很好……后期去美国以后隔着屏幕都能感觉到绝望……不知道为什么这么一个步履不停的人会在奇怪的节点得神经症 精分也不是晚年能得的啊……drowning太绝望了……Wain和rider的对话也让人落泪
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总体来说还是以男主以及男主家庭为叙事主线的电影，留给允儿发挥的空间不大，但是在有限的发挥空间中林允儿的表现也跟其他演员平齐了，真棒哇，时长略微拖沓了点，总体来说是有笑有泪的电影。
真实事件其实值得拍的，但编剧导演拍的比较一般，让故事简单程式化，命题作文的痕迹很重，不走心。演员演的也一般
爱情线比较虚，姐弟线姐姐早已死去是全局最大反转，父子线隐藏了妈妈和姐姐去世的秘密和父亲无法直视的过去。
发现姐姐原来一直是以灵魂的方式陪伴，以及父亲更深沉的心结，有点泪崩。每个人物的感情很细腻，故事讲得真好。但是，我觉得还是林允更好看，值得给五星🐶🐶🐶
神神叨叨的，还挺好看的，最后一切都是love。。。lonely。。。connect。。。画的猫真好看，画画的唯一秘诀就是。。it is to see
中规中矩的传记片，演员加成不少。一直说女性意识觉醒，这一家子只啃一个男丁真的是要命，还歧视独立女性——家庭女教师。记忆就是脑子里电流，实现在视觉上还可以，真想通过艺术家的脑子和眼睛看世界。确实大多数时候，我们没有真正在看。
没有康伯巴奇驾驭不了的精神疾病患者角色，演技太棒了。
七分。想看本尼多演人物传记片，他好适合这种类型啊！被他刚陷入爱河的时候那个游泳段落笑死了，那简直就是在游泳池里“制造海啸”
路易斯·韦恩的悲情人生。癫狂又散乱的剧情像极了韦恩所经历的人生，生活虽然一团糟，但作品永垂不朽，堪称猫咪们的福报。
半段爱情，半段亲情，两头都没讨好，割裂感略重，最后也只是俗套煽情。
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