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.
从两个青梅竹马到两人分道扬镳本来无可厚非，毕竟他们都有自己的梦想，但是从纯纯的爱情故事变成科幻故事真的让我蚌埠住了，可能这部电影的剧情走向，情节设计远不能达到四星，但是真的有很多地方让我非常感动，几乎落泪，而且相比于黄凌芳的角色我更喜欢丁萌萌，虽然她主演的戏份在后半段，所以四颗星拿去吧...
好奇怪呀，啊这……看完我就这种感觉，看完思绪乱得很，但不是因为情节本身有多烧脑，而且还做了一晚上噩梦。。。嗯，看这个电影后就像是人喝了假酒，词不达意，乱像丛生，你可以说他啥玩意也不是，但是包装一下总能说成是行为艺术。总之我还是不太能接受这种调性。
死生寂灭，涅槃轮回，我们何苦难为这个世界呢？你只活在……
再好好剪一遍，这片子就能登堂入室了，目前看来总觉得差口气。各位演技那是真没得说，王珞丹从不让人失望！
每个演员都演的很好，特别是配角还有惊喜。台词很精辟，不愧是王朔。但是……我依旧不喜欢这个故事不喜欢这个电影，就好像气场不合：说不出哪里差，就是不喜欢。
要素過多，風格割裂，旁白過長，瑕疵太多。男主演技不ok。但不是爛片，導演值得再一次，或再三次機會。
电影像王朔的小说一样，从早期的嬉笑怒骂接地气变成了晚期的自娱自乐谁也看不懂
Memory hints the legacy evidence of which ghost passes through the world without staying.
电影像王朔的小说一样，从早期的嬉笑怒骂接地气变成了晚期的自娱自乐谁也看不懂
关于死亡，和两个女人的爱。
人的一生之初，便拥有最好的一切；往后的日子里，将仅剩失去，再多努力，也是徒劳。
虽然个别片段/台词确有所触动，但整体上只能说是折磨
造化弄人，爱而不得，分分离离，永在心底，疯狂一念，执着永恒，生死远去，陪伴永远，可能只有经历爱情思念一人的才深有体会。探讨生死有限、爱情无限的哲理片子，王珞丹、王传君、“丁萌萌“包括父母亲、六姑等一众各演员表演忒棒了，原声音乐缠绵萦绕，非常好听。因为看预告片剪的乱，没去影院看，现在后悔了。年度国产十佳，适合海外发行或评奖。
上个月爸妈讲不好看，说不尊重那个年代的事实，故事俗套，人物不饱满。 我今天重新看完，感觉是细节做得不好，干细胞那一段是为了讲永生这个主题吧，也行。为了把萌萌写死只能让她把自己癌变了。还有为什么身体能维持记忆不能？还能有个情人的克隆人当女儿？郭萌这个名字是怎么知道的？看了下影评我同意这一切都是幻想出来的。因为后面已经完全不合逻辑了。如果这么想这个片子还挺有意思的，关于生命的意义。结合他整个生命来看，他失去了太多人，这一生对于他来说很无奈孤独。这根本不是个什么爱情片子，跟爱情甚至一点关系都没有。干细胞不能拯救人类，长度无意义，只有经历过的才是生命。
用一种奇药，讲述的又都是凡人情爱，倒是看腻了苏那样的人设，如果是爱，为什么不在一起呢？明明来得及，明明有条件，有勇气去追梦，无勇气去相爱。丁教授还是挺可爱的人，真实有趣。
2021.11.5 终于来丁桥天街的博纳了 之前10月多开业的时候就想来着 但没啥活动就懒得来了 这次9.9还不直接拿下 典型的烂尾片 前面看着怎么也该有3星的样子 但是最后真没想到开始乱搞了 怎么女二不能成功的干细胞不老实验 在你这就不能成功并且不老？后面不是撞车变成植物人了吗 怎么又变好变成健全人了啊？你和女主生的女儿 怎么生的啊？怎么取的你的精子？还有女儿居然取名成郭萌 男主和女二的名字合起来 想啥呢在？！还有这个女二我真草了 居然跟程伊莎一模一样？？有这么好的女二还非要单恋女主一枝花。。小时候的演员是真不行 特别是男主小时候那个 小女主还行 故事反正实在发展的太离谱了后面 我都无力吐槽了…
关于死亡，和两个女人的爱。
一部电影最可怕的就是，关掉画面不影响你懂这个故事，打开画面，你以为这是电视剧。
蒙蒙雨过去看，淋着雨回来了…
其实质感断裂严重，是因为在去捷克之前的部分太流水账了，如果把叙事核心聚焦在干细胞的制造与导致的后果，然后再去细说男主在失去一切却获得“永生”的情境，应该会很好看。另外，丁萌萌自我当试验品的段落其实应该是很有力的情感高潮，却缺乏足够有力的动机，其实也不难解决，就是因为作者把重心本末倒置所以几笔带过，比较遗憾
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