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.
其实结局在老两口一起做寿衣那儿已经能猜到了，各个诗意片段单独截出来都还可以，但放到这个故事节奏环境下略显生硬。
旁边女生哭成泪人。某些镜头想起李沧东的电影，但就是没有李的那种感觉。
作画和视觉特效都很好，但故事没说好，可惜了
剧情让人摸不着头脑，奇妙的画面确实不错，但特写和近景的画风差异太大，有点割裂，单独抽出来不错，混在一起挺怪 设定不解释，情感线随意，剧情刻意，太失望了 （吐槽：男主的🎧前期几乎镶在脑袋上，后来为了体现改变才掉了，因此前期跑酷耳机不掉实在不能理解）
一星给妈妈的演技 一星给导演的情怀 没了 不是用了长镜头就是牛逼 群戏都不太行 调度只是为了调度 不会用群演 关注阿兹海默症题材的好片子很多 不是关注了就是好啊 这也没拍好啊
有一种《天气之子》的感觉，但是请了那么多人拍一部新海诚风格的电影，为什么不直接请新海诚。单从观感来讲还是很不错的。虽然剧情不是全部，但没有剧情的动画和幻灯片有什么区别。
改编自人鱼公主，披着跑酷的皮，说着灾后的孩子的青春故事。这么土的剧本，真的浪费了这么好的bgm和作画了。
女主确实不太行，但是两位老人的表演炸裂。导演长镜头调度的功力不俗，但是过多的超现实段落冲淡了力度，课堂的那段懂的都懂但确实刻意。最后一场戏太加分了，回到家中，亲人都还在，回过神来才想起皆已逝去。
没抱希望就不会失望，视效不错，海女儿的动画版
疾病或许是比死亡更难迈过的坎。
为什么多次点开都没看下去，为什么下了这么久都没看完，为什么看的过程多次快进，一切都原因都是太难看了。垃圾烂片
重温了一遍海的女儿。
量产的世界系垃圾，看完后不会留下任何深刻印象，疑似自我意识过剩
对人鱼公主故事的SF版再演绎，水没都市上演天气之子式的纯爱冒险，拯救世界的必须是追求自主性的少年们。霸权社的演出依然无与伦比，跑酷动作戏让人联想巨人，作画精细度堪比薇薇，对科学与哲学的指涉也可以与海兽之子一较高下，不过落点依然是be美学当中的普世情感——“感谢遇见了你，我才变成真正的我。”（ps：末日、沉没、天降奇观、超自然灾难…果然要发生在东京才有意思啊！
PYIFF#2020.10.19 这剧把我看尴尬了
阿尔兹海默综合症，老年痴呆，临终关怀。一个普通的家庭，每个年中儿女遇到的老人赡养问题。想起年迈的父亲，终日面对封闭的砖瓦房，相比护工，家人照顾胜却无数，身体的疾病却抵挡不了亲人耐心逝去。整体节奏平稳，爸爸演技不错，女主恬淡佳宜，几段魔幻场景，水形物语，朋克蒸汽，有老师看完直呼对标哈内克的《爱》。
画风挺美，其他都啥玩意儿，简直浪费了这么好的制作，男主情感转变很突兀，没什么铺垫，忽然就蹦出一句遇到女主自己才变得完整，看得我满脸问号
《人鱼公主》同人电影，密集恐惧症千万不要观看。
在广州看了导演映后场，片中有几处戏份还挺触动我的。
一个半小时的内容，竟然没有一个画面或者一句台词能打动到我，好土的剧情，好俗套的展开，没头没尾，连天气之子都比这个好看，大失所望。结尾足球小子笑喷。
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