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.
看的时候总是想到瑞典类似题材的《养子十五岁》。
能够依靠的从来都是千丝万缕的爱，而不是血缘。这个道理真是高级又现实又无奈。希望所有国人都能尽早明白看透。电影而言拍的中规中矩，就是你看到这个海报和故事梗概的感觉，没有失望也无惊喜。
当同性拥有和异性一样得基本权利时，也承担起养育子女的责任，也会经历和异性恋婚姻一样的鸡毛蒜皮，婚姻危机。不断反转的剧情也印证了血缘和DNA不是维系一个家的重要元素。爱才是最重要的，没有血缘关系他们也一样爱着里昂，顺便背刺下“代孕”，有些gay man一味主张想要个与自己有血缘关系的执念大可不必，有没有血缘不是最重要的，有没有这个信心给予孩子足够的爱才是最重要的。如何教育孩子成立健全的人格，而不是在一拍两散的时候想着用血缘绑架孩子。
意大利片总是碎碎念 题材规避沉重 让这个话题看似已经可以轻松谈起
不知该如何评价，也许不管是同性还是异性，背叛总是常见的，反而和子女的感情更加牢固，但我们一定要顺从这样的社会，放纵自己的欲望吗？
看的时候觉得很搞笑，看完却觉得很难过，保罗明明什么也没有做错，却要在中年时经历丈夫出轨后，还要强装接受这狗屁的Happy Ending，影片里强调的出轨非一方过错更是让我感到生理不适，出轨的一方永远都是错的，望周知。
乍看是新时代新型家庭的问题，然而父辈的婚姻和家庭问题，子女青春期的矛盾与困惑，其实和异性恋家庭会遇到的问题，几乎是相同的，归根到底是人类的课题。
也不是很有新意...或者说主创们为了一个悬念拖时间太长反而让我产生“逆反”心理了，有些线顾此失彼了，明明这个时长还能深挖一些别的东西感觉
题材不错，然而只有妈妈演技在线&太drama了
男主的女朋友好漂亮哦！我一见钟情了！（有点点像裘德洛的女儿Iris（我也好爱（氧气美女我的最爱！呜呜呜
It’s the things that I’m bestowed with that shape me gradually.
普通的家庭狗血剧情，无非是换成男男家庭，莫名其妙的婚内出轨，莫名其妙的握手言和，虽说有孩子为感情纽带，孩子的身世又再撒一次狗血。
浪漫又温柔 平凡又质朴 爱的千丝万缕（这个中文译名也太好了）
极具戏剧张力，更加贴近舞台剧。科恩嫂和丹泽尔演的太惟妙惟肖了，但即便如此，狭隘的人眼里也只看见了人种色彩。A24的麦克白比绿衣骑士其实风奠定宿命论。
情节太dramatic，一方面很假，一方面又很爽。消失的爱还是爱吗？是的。血缘重要吗？更重要的是爱与坦诚。
melodrama，理念之作，剧本稍欠打磨
只是没办法在一起生活了
3.5星。多出来的0.5是本片表达的社会意义。大多数婚姻的维系需要一个孩子，大多数同性家庭不会有孩子。经由抚育孩子所凝结的家庭纽带不适用于大多数同性家庭。这也意味着，同性伴侣之间需要建立一种强有力的联接（比如共同的理想志趣或者强有力的互相理解等）。或者如福柯所说，突破异性恋思维的以友情为纽带的新型人际关系。
好好笑~~~意呆的脑洞大到没边了，虽然对于他们的极端自由不认可，但是产生的冲突真的好好玩，世所不容之下的不断奋斗和坚持自我，除了性别不同意外，其实完完全全就是正常的家庭所常见的那些事情，最后基因验证之后才是最好笑的，在男主病房的那个老头三观碎了一地的旁听表情，真的太好笑了（估计就是满脑子都是wtf），哈哈~~~~话说回来，导演想表达的爱才是亲情的真实基础的意图表达得很清楚，挺好玩的一部片子
"结束后还算真爱么？"
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