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.
他没有资格杀掉希特勒，的确，希特勒在那时也是德国乃至整个欧洲问题的集中反映，现在大家都说自己是反法西斯了，那个时候不到万不得已谁又想撕破脸皮。历史终究不是一个个鲜明的观点和对立面。
政治的部分似乎太过儿戏，要是能把重点完全放在主角间的个人感情倒会是个很好的故事
Jannis德国90后里最帅我说累了 很难不陷入那一汪湖水蓝的眼眸 搭谁都有cp感 荞麦果然很适合大荧幕 然而期待了这么久的电影 看完感觉跟没看一样😹
阻止不了,但是,,历史中的人物还是在挣扎.
人类也是第一次经历希特勒这种出尔反尔的疯子却装成是领袖的样子，都像是吃了好几闷棍，不过好像到了2022这样的人还在世界上存在着，你们知道是谁吗
浸入影片制造的气氛并融汇对历史的认知，大致能体会到:经历了“不久前”的两次世界大战，整个欧洲与我们一样满目疮痍、哀鸿遍野，如坠地狱般的记忆使得今天的欧洲人对战争高度警惕，宁可生活窘迫一些，宁可看上去很傻，也要全力推动自己的政府阻止他们认为非正义的一方。
所以真正的邪恶不是人本身，而是权力本身，无论是任何人，在拥有了最大化的权利之后，都会让心中小小的恶念膨胀起来。
节奏和镜头语言都挺棒的，说洗白的干嘛看电影看历史书就好了呀（的确可以搞同人，但我忍住了）
由于汉内。。。哦不，由于张伯伦首相的功劳，英国赢得了备战的宝贵时间
看不懂，历史片？
牛津毕业的二位同学为挽救和平而努力奋斗，但没有效果。
1张伯伦真！没什么好洗的，因为张伯伦白了，丘吉尔岂不黑了（虽然政治都是灰的…2两个异国小帅锅又使眼色又送小纸条的，不知道的还以为这是一部不远千里来私会的政治版call me by your name…3当时德国是环境造就了希特勒，不是希特勒造就当时的疯癫，就算当时下的了手，一个“希特勒”倒了还会有千千万万个“希特勒”站起来的…4就电影而言拍得还算不错，张弛有度
最近连着看了同时代的德国题材，特别是又看到了巴比伦柏林里的女主。可惜历史永远没有如果。
一些从新的角度展现的历史/谍战片，演员表演方面没有什么问题，就是莉娜这个角色太工具人了。
为了凸显两位年轻主演的伟光正，对张伯伦的刻画极为敷衍、毫不立体，至于紧张气氛和表演处理上也有些差，显得格外出戏和失真。
没死一个却这么紧张。我们上帝视角当然知道发生了什么，这个片子换了一个视角就是在我们历史教材里绥靖代表人物张伯伦，就算他知道要发生了什么真的就能一把梭哈，美国也是在珍珠港后才能全国上下总动员的。再有表现那个时代的贵族真贵族，表率而为理想、主义比命主要。前面德国人民狂热是不是现在赎罪的心理，毕竟开始真是自己投票投出来的纳粹党。捷克不光没有参加瓜分自己的会议，在电影里连脸都没露一下。还能感觉当初克里米亚真的很像苏台德，都是当地多数人要求“改籍“，这东西都能随便改就没有暴乱了。
挪到当下看，挺有种历史重现的感觉，乌克兰和俄罗斯之间的政治角力，欧洲的格局又会惊变，起码俄罗斯经此一战之后大概会很艰难。
绥靖主义，很小就学到的这一词汇，现在才知道这就等同于“要和平不要战争”
关于慕尼黑协议的故事，但是没有谍战的紧张，而且好像过了一个小时才开始切入正题，没怎么看的下去，刷着手机看完的…
選鐡叔演張伯倫絕對能拉高觀衆對張伯倫的好感啊！鐡叔還有點可愛的咧······想了想Hugh和Paul以後要經歷的事情，看結尾時就更心碎了。Jannis好帥好帥。可惜女性的空間還是很少。
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