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.
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青春逆反的女儿因母亲重病而由抗拒转变为主动关心家庭的故事。新冠疫情在本片中不再是简单的背景。王净的演技令人眼前一亮，比起贾静雯来有过之而无不及。
Why so serious?? 居然比扎导版更一本正经… 绷三个小时真的有点累。追车戏看得很爽，文戏亮点不多。
恕我直言，再是华丽的视听，也架不住如此平庸的剧本持续三小时的连击。那个曾被诺兰驾到城邦正义十字路口的蝙蝠侠，在这个并不怎么高明的谜语人面前，除了伟光正之外，几乎和他身后那一大撮警察（编剧）同样的迟钝和愚蠢。
7/10 走出了蝙蝠侠的第四条路。蒂姆波顿是探索，带着浓烈的视觉符号；诺兰是对大义道义的诠释；扎导用一个苍老的灵魂续接一个更大的宇宙；这版则很漫画，非常非常侦探漫画。旁白，那些人物的出场，和戈登拿着小手电探案，误导信息，就像在看漫画。个人认为和猫女的感情戏很出彩，价值观的冲突和身世的相似人两个人分分合合最后只能互道珍重，颇有侠侣的感觉。遗憾也有，比如重要转折只靠台词，小道具的使用没有铺垫，某个角色沦为纯彩蛋，结尾虽然立意升华但高潮不足，前中文戏打戏比较割裂（整的都很长），有些镜头语言我不太喜欢（比如翼装飞行第一视角），bug黑科技后面没用等等。但很喜欢这种风格，格局总体不大，聚焦推理。罗伯特太帅了！！！哥特的建筑接受度分人，我还是很吃的（顺便吐槽一下黑人浓度好高，主角配角转头就是一个黑人…）
很「布」的電影，聽見瀑布的聲音。空空如也。
表演：正常年份贾静雯止步提名，王净止步遗珠的水平；其他配角就陈以文有可看度。
这才是疫情中应该出现的电影，而不是群星荟萃的拼盘演出！
后疫情时代难得的准cinema大片，作为影迷对它的感恩多过挑刺。
评分「8.0」
“不要问我你还好吗，我会想尽办法好起来”
“答应我，不要问我你好吗，我会努力地好起来……”
看完全片，无法动弹，瘫坐着听完片尾曲，仿佛淋了一身哥谭的雨。
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钟孟宏舒缓的镜头调度和影调，还是熟悉的叙事方式，但比较前作《阳光普照》，多了些刻意的痕迹，演员演技一言难尽，主题表达显得过于生硬，本该挑战大女主演技的戏，但贾静雯的表演没有层次，自始至终，显得有些怪异，说不上来的奇怪。在电影文本上，导演提示了三处“瀑布”，来照扣片名。第一处，是女主离婚后患上了某种情感障碍症，耳朵里不断出现瀑布的声音，而她也在努力往外走，寻觅声音的出处。第二处，是房子外罩扣的蓝色塑料布，墙皮整修开始后，阳光透过塑料布，照在屋内宛若置身于瀑布之中，成为重要的视觉表意元素。就像女主对前夫评价时那样说道，“感觉很压抑，很不舒服”，亦勾连了她幻觉中常出现的瀑布。第三处，则在影片结尾，溪水暴涨，上游无预告泄洪，导致女主的女儿被冲走，后被救起；明喻了身处生活之流，及无法抗拒的命运现实。
当一个长得像米歇尔奥巴马的人告诉市民应该相信警察的时候，我就非常确定这坨仨小时的玩意就是民主党建制派嗯造奥巴马流量的反动宣传大毒草。为了把超级英雄电影带回到前小丑时代，甚至需要塑造一个有菲尼克斯面相的蝙蝠侠然后让他成为一个真的蝙蝠侠，全片与小丑对仗的内容如此之多以至于所有的体面正道反思都成了欲盖弥彰。究竟谁越界了？究竟谁在滥用暴力导演你自己心里没ACDE数吗？川壬上台能拍小丑老毕登上台就只能拍这种垃圾你们好莱坞上上下下都应该扪心自问一下!
【又蠢又无聊】华纳如果想靠这个IP养老，不如开发一套哥谭滤镜（黑暗下雨）付费授权使用。一个现代城市能有什么大谜团，无非是黄赌毒。（上映第一天IMAX厅里都是真影迷，没人说话，但这么一个沉重的“探案”（不带引号都侮辱智商）剧，引得观众频频发笑。镜头调度也不行啊，蝙蝠车好像还不如企鹅人的车（这么强的车都翻了安全气囊也没弹出来？）公路追逐乱切那个车尾灯一侧的镜头是粘了个手机拍的吗？源自佐罗的斗篷除了耍帅真是一点用都没有，飞起来像个鼯鼠丑死了。我帅帅的囧林叔完全被化妆遮住了💔猫女既然是黑白混血les为啥不多一重设置穆斯林？治谜语人的方式难道不是装傻吗，五方的脸和演技真的绷不住，我永远爱本蝙！这么长适合拆成3集一小时的剧，哦不对那不如电影挣钱。谴责影响观众身体健康的超长久坐！本来不困硬是看得哈欠连连
张力还是有，关系也刻画得妙。疫情期间的戏，很多人物的口罩怎么不戴好？
钟孟宏的新片《瀑布》，延续了《一路顺风》《阳光普照》，虽然没前面两部那么震撼，但也还值得一看。钟这是要继承杨德昌侯孝贤的台湾当代人文关怀大任啊。
整体境界比《阳光普照》低了一级，人物角色不像《阳光普照》那么多，所以没有太多剧情矛盾点，并且拍精神类片子或多或少会让观众感觉有些刻意，这个是精神类片子的弊端，如果掌握不好，确实会很难拍出4星的骗子来，但好歹拍得还算有些情调，3星及格。
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