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.
兵不厌诈，利用一具尸体来赢得一场战争。真实事件改编，二战期间为开辟第二战场英方设计骗德国要打希腊，而实际要攻克西西里岛。感情戏加的确实有点多，但整体还是很不错。一众明星加盟，最帅的依然还是脸叔，达西真是从年轻帅到老啊。女主原来是猜火车中的女主啊，时间太久了没认出来，跟两位男主站在一起，真是显矮呀。里面还有唐顿中的老太太。
很早就从袁老师那里知道了这次绝妙的行动，观影时自然好感加分，一些细节还是处理的相当不错。
无聊透顶！我三分钟拉进度条看完，没必要看。
6.5分。Jean-Pierre Jeunet这是咋了？？这拍的都啥啊？？？看在网飞爸爸的份上，所以直接玩HIGH了吗？？明明是一个充满灵性的设计，但讲述却变成了一段段的小品？还是不好笑的那种。人类和机器人的矛盾这种早就滥大街了，可能也就增加了机器人和机器人之间的矛盾这点算有那么点新意吧。其他方面。。。。可能直接搞成舞台剧或者20分钟的短电视剧会更好吧。
质感和表演都不错，但是这个剧本有点儿弱，一个这么精彩的故事，有必要浓墨重彩写一个办公室多角恋吗？致使很多关键情节都一笔带过。故事本身都可以拍一个三集的剧了，结果一个电影还加大量没必要的感情戏。
有点平淡，感情戏如果是虚构的也没啥意思，可能是想表现情报工作需要处处留心的不易，计划实施部分反而拍的很简单。。。。
感情戏过重，没有战争片的紧张感，故事有点空洞，演员到是不错的。
费叔的忧郁一如既往，标准但缺少波澜，故事娓娓道来不太适合娱乐，好在完成度还行，毕竟都是非常不错的卡司。但是这个三角恋真心有点多余…节奏略微慢了一些，包括冯罗恩的间谍部分也没交代清楚，也许有更好的方式表现。印象深刻的是做个三重间谍还要给别人打枪…我同情那个西班牙人…
这片子，就是谍战剧，搞什么惊心动魄，平淡无奇中蕴藏着危机四伏，平静的海面下掩盖着深海的暗流涌动；最终，人们在紧张的等待中迎来“樯橹灰飞烟灭”的结局，国家利益至上，英雄依旧默默无闻——我想，这才是片子要揭示的实质内涵吧…🥃
在可预见的近未来，我们的家里充斥着各种各样的机器人，有打扫卫生的，有做饭调酒的，有不可描述的……根据阿西莫夫机器人三原则的定义，机器人只能为人类谋取利益，但是当人类的要求和它接收到的指令相冲突时怎么处理呢？机器人会不会演化出自我意识而毁灭人类呢？机器人会不会产生爱、幽默感这些人类才有的情感呢？
惊心动魄的历史事件也能拍得这么平淡 堪称本事
法式传统，荒诞轻喜剧，但与绝大多数同类影片一样，无聊又尴尬。
机器人反抗人类，又有要保护人类，这个也只有用巨型漏洞来自圆其说了。
为什么很多有才华的导演 遇到网飞就开始摆烂
6⃣️西班牙的懒散世人皆知，可是他会不开心🫤
复古的科幻设定，夸张的演绎方式，最大的亮点在于影片的色彩运用。
1⃣️丘吉尔追屁股的梗莫名好笑
英国人贱兮兮的幽默感，和一些奇怪但温暖的感情
埋梗太多了，有点疲劳
战争电影透着一种幽默和诗意，感情戏大可不必
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