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.
欣赏a，她很好，只是现实中会让我喘不过气来。
阿娜伊斯 阿娜伊斯 永远不要停下脚步，克制的爱打动的是别人（Always,克制和犬儒只有一线之隔），阿娜伊斯永远追随自己，“我不同意”，我就是要爱你，何况你也爱我。这当然不是最后的结局，但此一瞬间已是永恒
一下就想到 世界上最糟糕的人 随心所欲的欧洲女人 慕
被五十多岁那个女人深深的吸引 她说你知道的 你只是爱上了你自己的幻想 一个投射 我整个夏天都在想你 我第一次这么富有激情的工作 都是因为你 我被你吸引 但我什么都给不了你 从容 有爱 平和的讲出这么理性的一切 真希望我老了也可以变成这样的人
后现代人类在路上
她奔跑，不停地奔跑，不是为了追求，而是陷入匮乏。她享受丹尼尔“会为我发狂”的庸俗快感，也在赤裸的爱欲面前臣服，于是她自诩“了无牵挂”。作家说得没错，阿娜伊斯的匮乏最终都变成了索取，任何对新的关系形式的体认，都成为了她武装自己的“荣誉勋章”，她并没有真正爱上他人，她爱着的是自身的匮乏，是自身欲望朝向另一半的某种想象投射。她总是想逃脱某种符号化的男性暴力，但除了面对肉体和欲望，她似乎毫无办法——所以她害怕幽闭，害怕亲密关系的正常形式，她并没有直面匮乏本身。她是伊卡洛斯，最后的牵手和拥吻也许并不是圆满，而是阿娜伊斯在被日光烧灼之前最后的激情。遗憾的是，影片也在这样的匮乏中结束。
看完加一星，名列我的les cinema top 2
通片无感，以致断断续续看了三四个晚上才看完……主要是不喜女主的聒噪和自以为是，直至最后一场戏偏见才有所改观，最后一个镜头流着眼泪的女主跟上女作家对她说“我不同意，跟我走”，并拉着女作家进电梯的瞬间有被莫名的打动到……还是不得不佩服她的勇气和霸气。P.S.女主的衣品还是不错的，喜欢那件蓝绿色的衬衫和她那同色系的背包。
理想主义十足的经典法式浪漫电影，随着时间不断推倒过去建立的关系，不断发掘下一秒的自我意识，实现了真正意义上的潇洒自如。可惜主角形象塑造得单薄片面，主角的家庭环境和社会阅历毫无关联影响，处理两性关系的方式也很模式化，尤其是追寻作家的过程很莫名其妙的“顺理成章”，一切都像是为了表现“自由自在”的工具人，导演可以处理得更加自然细腻一点儿～
女主自在，热情，总是朝欲望奔跑，对比《世界上最糟糕的人》的女主，少了迷茫，清楚自己的需要。剧情平淡，结局处理得不错。
女孩胜在于旺盛生命力中没掩饰自己那种迷茫和绝望 与此同时她坚定决心要自我成长
铺垫稍长了一点，除非片名改为阿娜伊斯的生活。爱可以让幽闭恐惧症消失。ps原来全世界的迷信都是一样的（去海边路上撒谎骗老师那一段
或许换成女收藏家的女主演阿娜伊斯
“我不同意。”
女主真的是理想的样子。
、油嘴滑舌
哈哈又是一个世界上最糟糕的人啊，喜欢这样鲜活热辣的女性形象(≠讨人喜欢) 不要再深陷讨好型人格，做自己吧，哪怕是世界上最糟糕的人。
但是，还是特别喜欢女主的性格，充满活力疯疯癫癫敢爱敢恨。
太美好了，喜欢法国电影里对情感，欲望和生命经验的无限追寻和坦白。周六夜能在法文和小王看这个电影也很美好啦
几乎爱上了阿娜伊斯在剧中的每一个镜头，除了船戏！她和呆哈应该是我个人最喜欢的两位法国新生代女演员～
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