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.
当20年前的价值观和当今社会价值观的碰撞还是一个很有趣的点，但电影并没有怎么去刻画这一部分。
起初一半时间有点像青春喜剧，中段开始有点黑暗，估计有悲惨结局，最后一转又变得很正面。十几岁的时候总有许多的渴望和失望，熬过了就有一番新气象。不要轻言放弃。
一直在想如果能再见到高中时候的她会是什么感受，当在影片中看到艾丽西亚·希尔维斯通的时候，大概就是此时的感觉吧。
回答正确！
几十年如一日的你最闪亮校园喜剧电影，连海报水平也停留在二十年前，可以说毫无叙事水准也经不起逻辑推敲，但不得不说看到最后有那么一点点想哭 somehow i really miss the silly cute teenage life, i'm like this old already (joshua colley长得好像我date过的一个男生，一下子午夜梦回了🚬
虽然很明白制片方想让蕾贝尔一直唱跳下去，她也的确很合适，但强行高中着实太尬了，探讨的话题也过于浅显。还是之前那部跟锤弟的好看些。
竟然是2022年的新片！我还以为是90s的校园片
作为一个法科生很难不全程分心想双胞胎和背后主谋的故意伤害罪……
我承认做不到这么乐观，即使18岁那一年的Steven
还以为是电视剧……头一次看不下去………………
一看就是conservative中年男人写出来的。纯属娱乐，不必当真
深深地被击中灵魂深处，我想，人生就是一直痛苦地坚持着活下去，去体会那点点绰绰的爱与美好。阿真，好好活下去，我们都好好活下去
居然用了ben platt的grow as we go！！！！这是什么梦幻联动！！！ben温柔 的声音一出来，就想哭
从预告到正片真的是有被蕾蓓尔瘦了那么多惊讶到，倒也是符合电影里的角色设定。以另一种视角来演绎传统美式青春校园电影，有重返17岁的感觉但又多了很多包容感，有套路的撕逼但是实际角色们打心底里都还不错，虽然这个故事可以更长一点，但或许那也意味着drama变多反而少了这样轻松随意的生活感，整体是超过及格线的，希望她能有更多的戏路吧
又好又烂，喜欢对于千禧年美高文化nostalgia的部分，不喜欢暗戳戳讽刺一些政治正确的内容，剧情很普通逻辑很烂，把主旋律想展现出来的自我独立活在当下思想弱化了…
美式校园喜剧真的是我的无脑go to😂。比我想象的竟然还不错？不过还是在玩20年前那套啊，校园喜剧是不是该升级了😂come on 2022了，不能是套了个壳子还玩那一套吧，20年直接下床走路我就不吐槽了，但是cheating husband这个角色真的就很莫名其妙啊，那个时尚小gay都不是popular kid那谁是啊woc。不过意外的这种20年前后高中对比还蛮好玩的，不一样的mentality。挺好玩的
蕾蓓尔·威尔森主演的喜剧貌似在豆瓣得分都是6.几，可是不知道为什么挺吃她的电影的，虽俗但趣。
适合周末夜晚，一瞬间回到20年前和朋友一起看青春爱情电影的感觉。很好。
fat Ammy！好开心的2022。那个男生也太可爱，每套衣服都好好看。
竟然是2022年的新片！我还以为是90s的校园片
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