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.
哪怕再艰难的境地，只要坚持如一地做一件事情，都有可能做到极致，成就非凡的价值。
顶着非正路的污名钻研万物百科的先学。
22-011. 前半部分真的不錯，雖然是黑白片但內容一點不無聊，可以看出來導演在構圖方面真的下了功夫。最後三分之一処劇情有點崩了，其實可以增加一點弟子和老師政見不合的鋪墊和細節，這樣弟子最後的轉變才不顯得那麼突兀。 男主一顆赤子之心，想學以致用報效祖國，沒想到宦海浮沉，多少黑吃黑的內幕，苛捐雜稅繁重到令人難以置信。好歹他還能有退路再回玆山，那些百姓呢？唉……苛政猛於虎啊！儒家最後成了統治中國最重要的思想武器，很大一部分原因在於儒家傳達的觀念是非常符合社會發展的。取之於民用之於民，水能載舟，亦能覆舟。 就像V里説的，政府應該怕人民，人民不應該怕政府。
虽不能算作是部好电影，却能引人思考，从那些带有历史回音的文字中去思考普世的道理。上一次看这样的电影还是尔冬升主演的《达摩祖师》。
并没有觉得剧本有那么好 支线揉得有些乱 但主线太动人了啊 我到底为什么要读书啊 真的可以不为前途不为苍生吗
无论治世还是乱世，不论是入世还是出世，人的选择可以有不同，来实现自己的理想抱负，但是初心和最终目的不能忘，为自己求心安，为百姓谋福祉。
流放生活这么惬意的吗？不过看他们作的五绝七绝怎么那么想笑呢，打油诗的感觉了
像编纂字典、故宫修文物甚至守灯塔，都是如此。
海螺的妙用 以为是一曲昌大的丧歌 笔锋一转～
1、最喜岛内的闲暇时光，怡然自得，自由洒脱，流放不是惩罚是新生；2、师徒互补，一冲一淡，出世入世，秉性一致，殊途同归；3、谁能不想起那个“一蓑烟雨任平生”的东坡先生？田野乡间有趣事，污泥山中出贤人。
开头一种思悼的感觉，昌大去做官那段拍得有点垮，前面很好，两个人做鱼谱太好玩了
“昌大啊，活成不断向上飞的鹤虽不错，但即便身上沾满污水泥浆，也选择活的像兹山一样，外表看着黑暗却生机勃勃自由自在，也未曾不是有意义的事啊”
若不能按照所学的来生活，就得按照自己的性格来活……
那个彩色的世界真的来了吗？真的来了吗？我们不是一遍又一遍一人又一人的奋不顾身的冲进黑暗之中吗？
20210530。21年目前最佳影片。最后写给昌大的信：像仙鹤一样生活固然好，但像黑色兹山一样，沾满泥土和污水，仍来者不拒地包容一切，也是有意义的吧。
和儒家治国、耶稣基督都没太大关系，不如说是用历史掌故包裹的知识分子困境，在“贱民去势”的情节中达到符号表达的高潮，以坚守书写至死作结，同时用人本、自然等等现代观念撑起价值观表达。看起来多少有些刻意，或许是不够精致。最让我触动的一幕是昌大看着滚动的星空，“脚踏实地，仰望星空”的康德箴言一秒具象，那是启蒙之时最初的感动。
唉……这本来应该是这个时代中国人拿出来的东西，可……这个电影可说的太多了，然而又能如何
C / 原来拍成黑白是因为预算不足，但实际上完全没有黑白的必要，情节设定思路和影像传递的感觉都挺现代视角的，而不是复古的氛围。
国家的民主现代性进程这样一个宏大的主题，落到具体的细微个体身上来展开，非常具有感染力
对“苛捐杂税”的细节例证很有趣。老师最后写就的不仅是一本科学著作，也是有人情味的非虚构散文，这点也特别好。韩国电影怎么那么喜欢用小人物的喜剧脸谱来谄媚观众啊（扶额
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