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.
一直期待着劲爆场面，但通篇最暴力的竟然是一只鸡，哈哈。老头岁数大，不易，不知道怀抱大妞的时候，还有感觉吗。
亚当斯一家的价值观不知道是否还能一直践行？
Wednesday怎么可能不是亲生的 毕竟她和她妈简直一模一样
其实感觉比第一部好些，不过第一部啥样早忘了。
老套 有点无聊了 最后两坨怪物打架 看的皱眉
故事有点散，有点像美国旅游宣传片，搞笑还是依然搞笑，就是情节一般。
你不是我爸爸
主线剧情进展颇有离谱（但是貌似结合人物设定，这种离谱的剧情竟然有些道理是怎么肥四）
前一阵我从达拉斯去了了墨西哥城，看完本片就是俩字“舒坦”。片尾的歌曲唱着Find a new home, 或许对东木老爷子来说，美国已经没什么值得留恋的了。
就看的开心吧，剧情老套简单，但谁不喜欢这种价值观，人类比怪物可怕多了，做自己吧，歌不错
slow and heart warming
不如真人版好看，真人版里每个人都是哥特又奇怪的，一家人虽然奇怪但很和谐，动画版第一部和第二部都是以星期三为主角，并着重描写了她与家庭的格格不入，她适应不了这个家庭，总感觉ooc了
合家欢，失去亚当斯的特质。八爪鱼菲斯特大战四不像的时候，我真是笑出声。
look at me/I am old/but I am happy
好像没啥gothic味道了，就一个普通的挽救叛逆期女儿和家人关系的动画片，也并不好笑。
还行吧 不过大个子突然开始唱歌弹琴我是真的非常诧异啊 而且声音也好违和…这一集的氛围没有第一集营造的好 总感觉他们一家子出门 应该自带随身乌云一直在车子上方打雷闪电下暴雨啥的才对啊😅
虽然故事太合家欢了，但是看到夫人和姐姐就很快乐
给个及格分吧……周三和她妈一模一样，咋可能不是亲生的
啊哈哈哈哈哈哈克苏鲁大战大鸡脖式出场就很搞笑
还行，其实不太吃这个画风。看完真人版以后觉得动画版一般
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