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.
半部好片。其实前半部分的切入点和讨论角度挺可以的:为了偏远小岛的发展，掩盖误杀放行犯的污点又算的了什么呢?后半程节奏和讨论点开始混乱，要的太多，兄弟间的关系和猜忌也开始加上了，导致该片主心开始崩塌站不住脚。
开篇心就凉了，好像熊出没的建模质感。连字幕都没法流畅打出来，永续战胜的信息低效率挤出来的。人脸上连表情都没有，纹路没有，哪家外包团队讹诈了网飞的资金？薪水小偷。
杀手突然圣母，警察突然被杀手“感动”用起了私刑
我把你当真兄弟，你却想睡我老婆。(冰血暴既视感
节奏有点慢 最后的反转有点没必要 但是这是我的古早cp诶！
以为是《飓风营救》一样的动作大片，却不成是今日说法，但结尾又反转，还是挺不错的
影片结束的那一刻，一万个舍不得，希望一直看下去。
这个阵容卡司，这个剧情好意思吗...
畫風最初看有點不習慣，但算漸入佳境，而且內核頗有舊攻殼味道。這個電影版剪接上做到取捨得宜。
比较老套了，明显是老了，动作场面都没啥了，而且也拍得太长了点。
连姆叔又一部中规中矩而又了无新意的定制片。
前面把俩人感情铺垫的太好了以至于我没有猜到结局…….
人性的恶，在利益面前，表现得淋漓尽致！！！
故事本身没什么意思，还偏偏这么长，又缺乏起伏缓急，也没有把岛民的群体意识和排外心理这个主题拍出厚度，最后结尾又俗又胸粪。DN两人和神木的演技加一星吧
漫画表现的是人在封闭环境中一步步脱离日常沉沦于疯狂泥沼，黑暗粘稠，所以很好看。真人电影版选择拍成热血激情犯罪公路片，搞得这么光明灿烂，太可惜了
老年痴呆杀手因不愿意杀害儿童，一系列反杀中介和雇主，帮联调局清除法律无能为力之人。
浪费了好题材，故事讲的不好，就是很不爽的感觉
剧情就是流水账，一枪一个，连姆尼森老而弥坚，强撑硬汉，好辛苦，加颗星！
果然是日式剧情，全都死的莫名其妙，除了男二要害男主那条线比较正常，警察又是工具人
故事一般般，连姆大叔终于不救援改杀手了，莫妮卡大妈也把青春留在西西里了
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