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.
加一星给巴尔扎克的故事——“我想到所有那些觉醒之后，必须要找到内在力量的人”
除了原著的光芒加持以外，可以说是毫无亮点，包括电影的外在创作和内在表达，议点、议 题相当陈旧，但所展现的导向、环境，也多少有一点现实意义，可这是巴尔扎克的功劳。
竟然是billy the kid 的后传电影。《神弃之地》是接过了《赴汤蹈火》新西部片的棒，那这部就是老西部片复兴啦！
「别人的痛苦才是艺术的源泉，而你去受苦，只会成为别人的艺术源泉」
非常喜欢巴尔扎克的原著，发现改编的电影自然还是要看的。拍得不算怠慢，但并没找到好一点的策略，也没什么新表达要说，就快节奏地复制小说情节，像是一个「2.5小时带你看巴尔扎克《幻灭》」的长视频。小地方的青年去大城市闯荡，媒体行业的光鲜与肮脏，梦碎的主题，这些一点也不过时，可以一看。
没有历史视角是不行的哦——尤其对于男主这样的身份来说，复仇？——在对抗还是在面试呢？或许结尾之后才能作为真正的开端吧。
3.5星 看完才知道是原著改编 那看来电影吸引到我的点可能就都是原著本身带来的东西了 或者说电影最成功的点在于让我对原著故事产生了兴趣 这种特定时代背景下的从无到有到无的故事总是不断重演 但各自也总是有着各自的魅力
过气演员大联欢。也许19世纪的东西真的不适合21世纪了。我们看巴尔扎克，就像剧里的人拿脏水泼的拉辛一样陈腐。想起老王说19世纪，the nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass; the nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
引用句评论:城市套路深，我要回农村。
《幻灭》的故事线非常清晰：18世纪末，在印刷厂工作的外省青年吕西安怀着文学梦，进入巴黎的报刊业，经历了荣誉与财富后，落败还乡。简单的故事线，包含着的却是人类生活的母题：阶级晋升、个人奋斗、文学与现实，爱情与金钱，小人物与大时代。
这样说有些无脑：但Tim Blake Nelson的名字出现，就知道不会有什么大问题；当作是演技个人秀看也不会感到吃亏。故事上的“土、村、直”可能拾起了那种西部片总是充满着意味、又强调着家庭精神的核心气息；几次追缉，也有滋味。尽管距离《赴汤蹈火》或者Taylor Sheridan在做的东西，尚有段可观的距离；但依然借由Tim，带出了属于自己的特质。
或许我们曾几何时都扑向过虚荣的陷阱在那片松软的橘黄灯下自命不凡，再美丽的泡沫终会消散，不知那时清醒的还剩几何…
一切消费主义在未来看来都是幼稚的。到底是一个土豆值钱还是把这个土豆送到你手上的人力值钱？
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改编得很棒，唯一的不足是旁白太多，打扰我对剧情的主动思考了…
媒体黑历史大起底，鸭子说这锅我不背。敬巴黎，敬巴尔扎克。可怕的，肮脏的，迷醉的，黑暗的，悸动的，暗流涌动的巴黎与十九世纪！
是85年盛夏的Benjamin voisin弟弟！弟弟依然貌美！还有我更喜欢的演员/配音兰兰，兰兰真的是好优秀的演员夸夸！没有读过巴尔扎克这本原著，但还是那个年代宏大叙事里的个人沉浮，和一些些当代可以relate的现象。这个年代每个认真拍古典的作品都值得赞美。故事走向就很巴里林登，当然比是不敢比。
都不是好东西，唯一让人有点怜惜的是甜美的小可爱。
扎实的名著改编，是这个时代稍微缺乏的电影样态，因为它意味着工序复杂、一丝不苟的电影创作，全部都需要以超职业化的耐心去迎对时间的绵延。服化道摄显示出大师的水准，至少是在文本留有不多的缝隙里尽力以艺术的追求。我唯一不满的是标题，太直白以至于剧透了一切。令我在观看的过程中，即使是在人物的巅峰时刻由于想象得到必然的结局而怀着惴惴之心。觉得故事不太好看，可能是因为人物是被时代推着走的，人物被必然到来的命运推着走，名著总是承载太多，一下子我们眼见他起高楼，眼见他楼塌下，毫无悬念，又不甘心。
不知天高地厚的年轻人闯巴黎，旁白很多，没有吸引人的演员，服装有质感。看了45分钟。
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