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.
喜剧不够喜剧，科幻不够科幻，煽情煽的烂，一锅乱炖。
鉴于观众口味已经被越养越刁，喜剧、科幻这两块，拍独立影片本就已经很难了，国产喜剧科幻片更是难上加难。不带期待值去看反而有些意外收获:就个人观感来说，喜剧部分维持了一贯的开心麻花风格，但反而更意外的一直是“这特效怎么拍的”，这说明在科幻这一块，完成度也很不错。佩服《独行月球》至少有尝试突破的勇气。
就，还行吧，前半部分不咋地，后半部分略好一些。整体上来说不至于是个让人太翻白眼的电影，确实能笑出来。可以排上麻花前三（但是麻花本身也就那样）。沈腾叔叔正经起来比喜剧式不着调要帅和讨喜。“你也知道，没别的办法了。”这句词之后转身前的那个眼神帅了我一下。行星爆炸的镜头做得还挺美。同意有个友邻的评价，作为科幻不合格，作为喜剧也不合格，但是把科幻和喜剧相结合还算成了一部成功的商业电影。Fly me to the moon，country road等用的插曲都很不错。
这个张吃鱼真的很烂，把沈腾钉在耻辱柱上了，揭下了开心麻花最后一块遮羞布。
或许我的笑点有些高了吧，让我笑出声的唯一一处就是电影开场的短短几分钟，之后就是非常平静地看完了全程，谐音梗，莫名其妙的包袱，没有必要的地球指挥部，看一半就能猜出的结局煽情，莫名其妙的感情线就像袋鼠一样生硬的让我尴尬发麻，哎，现在想看一部纯粹的喜剧好难
其实很喜欢前半段的设定——当一个人被“组织”遗弃后，组织发现他意外地没有身亡，竟然想利用他来树典型，为此不惜抹杀他自己发声的机会（配音），并设法搞定不相信的群众——往这条线走下去就是黑色版的《楚门的世界》啊！我们真要拍出接近世界级的喜剧吗？但我们都知道做不到，那让主角就像《火星救援》样，克服各种困难后滥一点地温情搞笑地回地球也好，可是下半段为了上升意义，强行让组织给他又派了个拯救人类的任务牺牲了！这简直是二次利用，榨尽价值啊！而可怕的是，屏幕外的观众都很感动，就是他们默认，这样是ok的。。。
笑点密集，电影中穿插了两首中文歌，想不通这样的电影国内竟然审核不过，我真的会谢🥰
替马丽不值，只能给沈腾演一个符号人物，明明姐姐也是一身武艺
独孤月：“现在有一个好消息和一个坏消息。好消息是：这是目前为止沈腾最全方位、多层次展示表演的一部喜剧片。坏消息是：开心麻花电影离最初的部分价值观越来越远了。”
配乐很浪漫，剧情甩《流浪地球》十个《星际穿越》（当然星穿还是永远的神）。这个节骨眼，我太需要一些英雄还有光了。
小黄人卖萌be like: (ˊo̶̶ᴗo̶̶`)(ˊo̶̶ᴗo̶̶`)(ˊo̶̶ᴗo̶̶`)
熟悉的配方 熟悉的味道 我却提不起精神 是老了吗
环球靠小黄人还能和迪士尼Battle十年👍
看完了，除去全场爆笑。
估计高开低走吧，后续口碑肯定不行，转型之作，欠缺火候。
能接棒人生大事多少救一救这个快要让人记不起来的华语电影市场。但我还是不喜欢喜剧电影里面太多煽情场面，我进电影院看喜剧只是为了笑而已。
在科幻层面，它的细节非常、非常好，月球基地的质感极度真实。
听说首日破3亿，好像票房很高的样子。我刚看完，只能说：该！
能在煽情的地方加入笑点显得不那么尴尬，开头还浅浅内涵了一下官媒，能在现在这个环境下看到一部合格的商业片属实不易，好日子还在后头呢
普通人拯救世界的故事。
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