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.
腔调摆足就是下坡路也得顺顺利利。装模作样看费里尼看到打哈欠想吃夜点心。在进口商品小店挑来挑去。鲫鱼汤要只放点佐料还又浓又白。索菲亚罗兰是假的，电影也不需要真。年底了看到这么轻松开心的片子还是很满意！btw，老乌切咖啡讲起电影那段真的好像汤老师啊～～～
别杠我，杠就是你对。
粉色的泡泡，飘得漫天漫地，整个世界美好得不真实。
猜猜在座的各位谁才是真正的文艺中年？想必巴黎人也自愧弗如。假如郭敬明真如其所愿地是个上海人会操一口流利的上海话，他会不会也像剥削费里尼一样剥削王家卫呢？（啊，原来人家早就开始剥削莎士比雅了啦！
老乌和索菲亚罗兰的部分，大概是在说，老派的上海死了，但仍留有一缕残魂，一个欧式的梦。
吃火鍋的時候看的。精確地把我傳送到了我小時候最厭惡、最想擺脫、為此和前女友爭吵了八百次、如今終於徹底斬斷關聯的文藝小清新的世界。一下子火鍋都不香了。希望我有生之年都不會再重新回到這個時空中了。以前有朋友說，他吃飯很喜歡帶上我，這樣我就可以鎮壓住在場想起文藝范的小清新，懟到他們灰頭土臉、原形畢露。這個場面讓我想起了絕美之城和青春年少，在華麗、光鮮千萬倍的音樂和視覺場域中，導演無情地展示了對自己作品沒什麼想法、只會一遍遍強調這是藝術的藝術家，以及缺失了他人認可就活不下去的導演。可惜這種假文藝氾濫的都市浮華，竟然被用作了刻畫浮華的精緻手段。導致連浮華都是浮華的。我已經過於厭倦這種用文藝和服飾一起裝扮空虛的自己的氛圍。一顆星給吳越老師演得真好，另一顆給難得的上海話劇本，讓我學到了很多鮮活的吳語表達。
片中这种生活状态的上海人当然是存在的，这些人和大部分住在宝山、彭浦的上海话使用人口之间的差异度，自然远大于他们和租住在隔壁，听不懂上海话，不吃香油鳝糊但热衷轻食法餐之间文艺女青年之间的差异度，本片的导演自然属于后者，构建出来的上海，也只存在于华山路-延安路包裹着的摩纳哥大小区域。当然，在泥沙俱下的今日，能够用上海话作为影片对白本身，已经能够让交关上海中老年人惊讶和感动，以至于对自家生活与片中人物之间的鸿沟，也轻描淡写的视若无睹了
大大超预期，法租界市井又洋气，马伊琍终于不土味了一次，看到徐峥在画廊里给两位女性观众道歉的那段就知道一定是女导演，只有女性才懂女性！让徐峥作为男导演在大荧幕上给全国女观众道歉绝对是中国电影史上最女权的一次！费里尼的爱情神话是这辈子也不可能补了，意识流+古罗马古装戏普通人是无法消化的，怪不得连导演都要致敬式吐槽了。
国内真难得呀，画展tag让我想到大冰两秒....dbq
饭桌上你来我往的群戏是最精彩的，剧情弱了些，基本靠对话来推动。
起了个爱情神话的名字，更像是在拍甜蜜的生活。徐峥塑造成了与马塞洛相反的角色，不追求名利，未表示的一夜情后想负责又分不清的态度，日后与倪虹洁在KTV重逢，都是自我意识空虚与丰富的矛盾体。前任就像艾玛，出轨的背叛也将男女的角色行为调换。红拂夜奔的故事就如同老白向往与李小姐的“爱情私奔”。老白做菜技艺高超，老乌与索菲娅罗兰的邂逅，让人想起爱情神话的罗马美食与甜蜜蜜的威廉霍顿。大家坐在一起，爱情本就不是必需品，青年的相恋，少妇的貌合神离，中年的离婚出轨，都没有独自潇洒走完一生，大家想起那晚看着那部催眠的电影来得真切。
由于平原上的火焰撤档，所以才临时看这个，但是真的超出预期了，年近五十的人也可以好浪漫啊
此片的口碑大胜利实在让人目瞪口呆。网剧电影，快销脱口秀+散装视听语言。金句频出的网络写手第一部长片就忙着自我致敬，倒也不必如此自信。要素如此齐全，如果没有徐峥等大牌脸，就像放大过油版学生作业，还有没扇匀的烟。合家欢，满场观众笑得开心，但我越来越迷惑了。被杨博士带着炒币后，感觉万物都像区块链。一张嘴，一个故事，一群人往里砸钱。
每个角色都各有各的鲜活，故事也非常自然。难得能看到这么出彩的爱情片！PS: 老白儿子那个角色演技太拉垮了……
其实，只要是成熟的人的爱情，都有动人的力量，不分老年人，中年人还是年轻人。
7/10，分些些虚高了。
乘兴而来，败兴而归。本以为本片可与《万箭穿心》相提并论，结果竟然跟韩寒导演作品相差仿佛？沪语竟能成为烂俗电影的遮羞布，蔚为奇观焉。强行透过台词 politically correct, 难道不是一种刻奇？
观影过程真的特别愉快，演员们在城市的街巷里轮番上场下场过场，对白和相互反应好。不止怎的想起陈小春的那首《大件事》，看似平平无奇的一些事却活灵活现描画出这个城市和这些人的特质。
比《北京爱情故事》高级了不知道多少层次的“上海爱情故事”。
最后费里尼的《爱情神话》看的是盗版资源，就像当年电影学院经典电影赏析课上放的盗版《罗生门》一样，具有某种幽默感。
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