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.
徐峥的故事有老上海味道，有80年代上海人物和生活旧场景，喜欢这个故事，有意思，但妻子是宋佳演的，一开始没有看出来，这东北妞说上海话有点别扭，不太象，冬冬小朋友韩昊霖依旧可爱，朗读我的爸爸作文时好有感情，章子怡这段有点感人，沈腾也没有那么好爱，吴京这段太一般
我理解 这是最后一幕了 重温五部曲 我似乎也理解了为什么有人会睡着 因为他们忘记的东西太多了……或者说他们不知道的东西太多了……
从四个小电影的观感来看：章子怡>徐峥>沈腾>吴京
我的孩子
喜欢《鸭先知》，轻松、简单、幽默。空气中没有壮烈、沉重，而是充满了快活。讽刺了整天喝茶看报纸的公务员、反驳了假正经的老师。公务员说“一秒钟都不给你”，搭配张艺谋说“我可拍过电影”，阴阳怪气第一名。
原本只去听个片尾曲，却在普天同庆的日子里狠狠被教育了一把。毛爷爷说，“这个世界是你们的，也是我们的，但归根结底是你们的。”
英雄总以悲情收尾，故事不算太精彩，拍的不错。
前两个比较沉重，后面的比较欢快，个人比较喜欢前两个，尤其是吴京那个，整体三星半吧，应该会爆。
永动电源神仙都羡慕；积墨这两部都是左右缩35%后再上下缩26%的晃晃大片，不把你晃困对不起人家的职位，这味药可比《叠影重重5》的3D猛多辣
凯瑞福永好导演，汉斯季默是大师，前三十分钟镜头节奏剧作没毛病。但你要问我买账不买账？除了Billie Eilish的主题曲是有几分致敬《tomorrow never dies》，剩下的只有反派说邦德你过时了，黑人女007开口讲话就像千禧一代trolls，旧日的演员和观众同时老去，豆瓣页面短评里没有看过007的新观众评价这一部又臭又长，就像剧中听见007这个名字面无表情的军情六处工作人员。没关系，让我们把老影迷的情怀和privileged英伦绅士一起炸成稀巴烂吧，下半场的钱，要换一张牌才能赚。
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看之前:为什么都这么苛刻啊呜呜 难得国庆放假和家人一起看电影 反而期望“我的”系列一直持续下去 喜欢这种片段式的形式和有笑有泪的感觉 虽然前两部也有不足 但是对我来说这系列的意义明显功大于过诶(哭)
头一小时OK 基本满足对007系列的想象 后面一路拖拉无聊 冒失女探员是全片最大亮点 但是没头没尾这人就没了……结尾邦德的结局能理解 但是真的是没有比这更无聊的处理方式了 很刻意 也不煽情也不壮烈
该作无论是单部来看，还是从“丹尼尔”版007的终结篇来看，都差些火候。格局可以说是太小了。
章子怡的诗真是意料之外的惊喜，第一次做导演可以到这个地步真的牛。徐峥的鸭先知拍的也很可爱，冬冬真的太棒了~吴京中规中矩，沈腾棋差一着，感觉腾哥还是适合做个喜剧演员，做导演确实有点儿不太行
看开头时，哇，这才是动作戏嘛！沙丘快学学！看了一个半小时，我的天，怎么这么多文戏，废话好多，好无聊，求求快结束！ 电影动作戏很精彩，但是文戏都很失败，摄影很美。蕾雅塞杜很多地方演得感觉状态不太对，安娜好美！ 至于剧情，商业片嘛，要啥子剧情，笑死。
我是这么比较的，祖国和家乡，宁浩的两个都让人印象深刻，但家乡后面那几个，太魔幻现实了，祖国也有几个让人倒胃口，比如张一白和陈凯歌，所以整体看，父辈四个反而最符合木桶理论，就是微微拿眼瞄过去，均衡又互补。当然，我也并不觉得章子怡那个就出类拔萃，最啰嗦就是她，而且演更重于导。
谢幕之作既然选择《幽灵党》的故事来接续，他们到底有多不清醒，直到现在还认为那是一部佳？
新世界的开始
我理解 这是最后一幕了 重温五部曲 我似乎也理解了为什么有人会睡着 因为他们忘记的东西太多了……或者说他们不知道的东西太多了……
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