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.
故事建立在战乱中被夺去的宝物会被后人归还的一厢情愿上，但我不知道这个逻辑能否在故事中成立。 还有，李现真不适合大银幕。
改得乱七八糟，影版的许愿和药不然比起剧版差的不是一星半点，不是指演技而是适不适合角色。
故事设定是上个世纪七八十年代，但是整个片的感觉就明显是现代人穿着那个年代的衣服在演戏。先看过的电视剧再来看这个，感觉一般
剧情压缩过度，人物前后逻辑矛盾，葛大爷死去那场戏煽情略显突兀。假作真时真亦假,无为有时有还无。
人物行为逻辑存在前后矛盾的硬伤，根本立不起来，李现一直凹造型，葛大爷的表现也很行货，煽情也无必要。冲着马伯庸的原著看完了，弱三星。
有李现和辛芷蕾都忍不了那个满脸横肉的许愿
很成熟的商业片，节奏顺畅，演员表演都在线。我现在不喜欢看文艺片了，就喜欢轻松的，不要太多说教的，或者小众犯罪类型片也可以。
剧本差，镜头调度也挺差的，就只剩下道具和场景勉强能看了。整个戏看得挺尴尬的，这么卖弄专业名词，那不如去看国家宝藏呢，何必看这电影呢。
前半段剧情还挺流畅的，鉴古炫技和笑点安排的还算合理；中间在许愿他爸住处发现那块“阴在阳之内 不在阳之对”的墙砖之后，佛头藏身之处就明朗了；后半段从进古墓开始剧情有些莫名其妙地为了冲突而冲突，大结局一出来整一小时的谜题设置似乎只是为了折腾药家、大朝奉和五脉某些人，佛头还是早早的送给了日本人…一众演员都是熟脸，以至于片头打完三位主演名字之后连着两页四个特出，现如今电影界卡司阵容也卷的这么厉害了吗？
结尾一个悬念电影给科普了，前面脱裤子放的屁也就不香了
就那样。我倒是觉得雷佳音的表演和李现的咬肌都挺有意思。
紧张刺激悬疑，不认真想看着还挺过瘾。。就是故事整体的逻辑不禁推敲。。最后真的还是送给日本的那个，也就是说就算没发现人家也是真的，意义没变还是汉奸。。还有佛头是不是太过结实了，什么石头做的用铁锤重锤可以只砸坏表面，里面丝毫不受影响？。一堆谜题解开差点还死墓里结果还是个假佛头也确实太费周章了吧。。
就很轻松爽快地看完了，也不咋过脑。解谜的部分还是精彩的，完整度也很高，手松打个四星也不为过。
不知道这一圈人是为的啥，出门左拐左拐左拐再左拐就到家了？
2星。全程全员神游，都不知道在干嘛，甚至影片结束了，有几个人物都没交代清楚。细节非常之粗糙，类似给爸爸扫墓，突然就从脚底下翻起一块砖见到一封信这种比比皆是。最后，即便整体如此拉胯，李现的出戏依然很跳脱，全程木头人，配音也太假了。 当然，最扯的是佛头这个真真假假的大前提没说明白，导致最后揭晓谜底感觉有点脱裤子放屁。
最讨厌醉汉了。没去电影院看。古玩圈水很深呀，一般人玩不起。直接上手触碰文物，连手套都不戴呀。中国人是很在意家庭背景的，清白很重要。雷佳音很适合演这种角色。葛优油嘴滑舌，当面一套背里一套，见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话。烤整猪，冒热气，好香呀。
17.12.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | 有种回到国内电影院看一部还不错电影的熟悉感觉。（没啥新鲜的就是说，但是我爽到了）
很多特效就像耍小聪明，毫无意义，完全可以靠快速剪辑达到更好的效果，但是要花心思和时间去打磨这几组快切镜头。特效就不一样了，花点钱外包就行，省时间和精力。目前这种有钱就能搞定的暴发户思想，短期在大陆影视行业很难根除
中配《寻龙诀》吧。葛大爷太强了，全片百分之九十五的笑点都靠他。
虽然不抱希望，但是没想到这么多逻辑硬伤，难道制作过程中都没想填一填吗？中间一堆花里胡哨的所谓解密，其实就是在玩密室逃脱，先猜这是什么类型的游戏，然后就说自己明白了，接着就说答案，就这种模式闯完一关接下一关，解开一关后剧情也没有什么进一步的拓展，这片子放在2012年那段时间还算合格，放这个年代就太不用心了。
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