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.
好好啊，男主好帅啊我陷进去他的眼神，和自己和解又老套又喜欢
看梗概就知道会演什么的电影。女性总在渴望亲密关系。她太孤独了，想找人聊天。
年轻的美男性工作者VS教授宗教课程的年长女教师，年轻健硕的男性身体VS苍老褶皱的女性身体。很多设定十分有趣，剧本十分工整完整。探讨了女性一生中的道德桎梏，也讲明了性工作者的道德困境。四次约会，层层递进，一次比一次更深入和放松。人生的list人人都有，往往真正完成的时候都不在预定之中，却更加难忘。
911事件20周年官摄。芝麻切口的恢宏巨作，固定场景的万千变化，单时间线的犬牙交错。用相当简单的故事写实了打破国别民族宗教文化性别生物隔阂的大爱，编剧跪服。一想到这个故事在世界上真实发生过，不禁对人类多了一分信心。
7，感谢Apple，感慨舞台和音乐的魔力，故事简单风趣又真诚平实，歌曲稍逊色大概只有三首比较出色，同样是让几十年前的记忆保持鲜活，国内影视行业应该好好学习一下，911的影视舞台歌曲作品层出不穷，发掘新视角塑造真情实感很重要
bravo！！！那么伤痛的故事这么欢快的基调！tonight we honor what we lost, but we also commemorate what we found. 转场好赞，全员厉害，好爱女机长！I'm an islander太洗脑哈哈哈
喜欢到说不出话来 又好笑又好哭 最喜欢的就是女机长那幕了
Emma Thompson最后在镜子前欣赏自己的那幕跟张艾嘉在《20 30 40》中很像。
我们都值得在赤裸面对真实自己时更加自信与强大。
P.S.希望等自己七老八十的时候也能对世界抱有幻想啊～
他说他是岛民！I'm an Islander. I am an Islander～很优秀的音乐剧了
太好哭了又太好笑了。疫情第十四个月的第一场百老汇演出，适逢911周年纪念日，灾难仿佛隔着时间长河呼应。意外总是突如其来，「人类在灾难面前可以创造感动」显得温情可爱和弥足珍贵。
非常动感的歌舞片，各种障碍与解决障碍。在舞台上演绎，真的很精彩。
西方敏感题材，个人实在无法一样地共情，只能说确实月圆，或许上海能做的更好，西安肯定不行。
此外还很喜欢关于不同族裔的部分，地球村的故事就像一个真实存在的童话。不需要懂得同一种语言，因为我记得上帝曾在某一编码处说过各族坚信的圣言；口中祷词有着不同的词句，但全心去爱吧，这是我们通行世界的准则。
铁幕搅动的半个世纪的疯狂历史，无解。
恐怖主义袭击的同时、世界上另一处地方展示出的人性的光芒。百老汇的舞台能力已经完全驾轻就熟。不过美国人的编剧真的是...过度热衷夹塞政治立场，同性恋种族歧视黑人枪支女性主义...所有的故事都非得要融合热点式的见缝插针地来一腿（个人真不欣赏这样的编剧手法，立场再正确再硬也不欣赏这样来编剧。显眼的突出点反而像一种对这个故事本身的破坏；又好像不那么写、就很难出内容了似的）。
12名演员，演出了120个人同台的架势，太喜欢女机长！
室内剧，对于中年女性的“性羞耻”以及女性身材焦虑的探讨都太流于表面，不过当喜剧看看尚可，汤普森阿姨贡献了较高水准的演技.60/100
应该看现场，效果会更好，虽然没有那个观看的环境，却能够对其构造的环境感同身受。
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