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.
8.3分，这类电影评分都有题材加成，分数一般会略虚高，不过豆瓣此次8.7分已经算比较克制的了。隔壁韩国同类型的电影基本上都破9分了。但分数虚高不代表这些电影拍得差啊，只是8分的质量因为题材加成冲到9分而已，电影也还是可圈可点的。感觉有些影评人不太瞧得起这种有题材优势的电影了。
2022 #11。资源下了有好几个月了，一直因为是黑白片的缘故看了一下情节梗概觉得是人物传记类的文艺片，就一直没鼓起勇气看，看完了之后真的后悔没有早点看。虽然看了一些长评了解到后半部分很多内容为导演的自由发挥，但是从影片的评分就可以看出大部分人对导演的发挥还是非常满意的。此处非拉踩，但很多中国导演过于沉溺于拍摄战争时期的电影…其实我们能从古代文人墨客身上挖掘出来的那些“秘史”和“传说”太多了啊。当然肯定会承担很大的票房风险，但拍电影难道和做官一样，都是为了钱吗。
丁若铨说服不了张昌大放下功名写鱼谱，就如同家居婶说服不了丁若铨接受安逸、不作为的流放生活一样。“子非鱼”是一个终极问题。
剪辑版。考虑到前一阵的一印度女性拒绝一男的，那个男的自杀，那个女的被杀死（好像是被处死了）以及以前他们霸凌网暴老白男强吻的女演员，完全不想夸他们。不过好歹印度拍了这样的电影。倒是也很真实。这个人权律师竟然没有被暗杀
因为在现实里，我看到太多有一点点小权，就作恶的人类。
若是人间不值得，就多抓鱼吧。世间万物自有道。
能拍出这样的电影，说明印度还有救，这个国家将是中国未来三十年很可怕的对手。
惊了，韩国居然拍了一部这样的电影出来！丁若栓的思想太广大了，已经不是那个时代容得下的了。
——《绿毛水怪》
低种族出身，就像剔骨难消的出厂设置，在印度成为低劣人种、品行败坏的刻板标签。此种语境下，遭受黑警惨绝人寰的暴行依然坚守自己清白的丈夫，成为穷途末路上捍卫自身正义的献祭者。始终拒绝和谈、不向当权者低头的妻子，仿若莅入人间炼狱、争取平权社会的湿婆真身。而以良知和专业毅然对抗国家机器的律师，外加不愿同流合污的督察组成的双雄搭档，最终成为印度腐朽司法体制的破局者，奉献了这场属于“贱民阶级”的公正胜利。文本依然很印度，法庭抗辩和调查取证过程紧凑而跌宕。就是前情铺垫和歌舞混剪显得拖沓冗余，如果去掉奇观化、风情化表达，剪到120分钟会更好看。
不想当编剧的学者不是好作家～不得不说编剧非常具有一流研究者的眼光，挖出了丁若詮这样的宝藏人物。无论是18世纪天主教在朝的传播、实学的兴起、博物学著作的编撰，还是口头与文字、精英和俗众的交互，抑或是东亚海域的交流史，以及实学与朴学的互文、丁若詮兄弟思想的对照、中学与西学的汇流，每一个都是可以拿来写论文的题目！编剧进一步把丁若詮解读为其时代的独行者，强调天主教作为李朝时代朱子学之外士人的alternative way，非常有卡洛金兹堡的《奶酪与蛆虫》的味道了～
充满诗意的风物志也是人物志，对东亚儒学 士大夫之类刻画深入浅出，反思多于批判，让我想起前些年《沉默》和《思悼》（和兹山一个导演。个人印象最深的还是片子前期丁若铨在昌大/兹山人身上发现的大道至简，结尾昌大全家望着远处的兹山岛，镜头逐渐推进，真就“此心安处是吾乡”
如果这就是流放生活，有海鲜吃、有欧巴桑陪、有书读、有徒收，我也很想被流放啊……
三星半，拍得很美。文本不是很流畅，也可能是翻译的问题？
作为女人，对儒教的毒害深恶痛绝，但并不影响去理解开创者们高远的思想。丁先生是在奋勉的学习圣礼学后又痛苦的思索了千万遍才选择了最后的方向吧。看到后面，才发现李导是安那其友人，恨不得再打十星。PS：在豆瓣看韩影评论，永不缺席的都是那群大中华主义者的自怨自艾，好笑，解压。
看了上海最近防疫的新闻，突然和这部电影的两位主角有了深深的共情。。。开始也许是昌大的愤怒，最后就是丁若铨的绝望。。。
两个小时四十分钟的电影，却一点也不会让人觉得长，足以说明这部电影拍得有多好了。
8.4分左右。
不错，但没有那么好，典型韩国商业片，老催泪套路，但景色做得很古典是一个亮点。
3.5。虽然这部电影拍得很直白也很硬气，略显过于伟光正，但电影把一段很气人的真人真事非常有条理地展现出来，到最后终于真相大白并赢得胜利的结局还是很激动人心，幸好还有这样的正义之人在世上……印度电影很敢拍，但也更加令人不喜欢印度这个地方，各方面都太“肮脏”了。
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