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.
被歌曲分割的小段落，情感的起起伏伏，像极了回忆起自己过去的故事时头脑中闪过的画面。
疑惑的镜头和疑惑的色彩运用。并不能好好回忆的回忆录
想起了之前的【罗马】，和国内拍的【八月】，说的都是导演自己的童年，用的都是黑白影调，其实【阳光灿烂的日子】也算，无非把现今变成黑白，童年的回忆是绚烂的。这么看也有套路。
到底在讲啥个故事啊
其实任何作者在拍给家乡的电影都会因为很浓的情绪没法评价，在我心中（罗马）是封神的。本片只能拿45分。
最后居然还“献给留在故乡的人”“也献给外出的游子”“以及迷失了自己的人”，这是拍电影，不是写散文诗！
片中所寄予的乡愁在可说是虚无缥缈的典型。看似精致的背后，是空虚的内核。卖力的煽情也很难达到共情的效果无非感觉抓马罢了。
私人乡愁故事。go, go now, don't look back, I love you
父亲角色最后歌舞本来很有魅力很有趣，结果逐渐开始毫不掩饰对口型放bgm，太失望了
其实对于有的人来说 幸福就是阳光 音乐 舞蹈和啤酒 本来就不需要什么“深刻” 那又何必煞有介事的加上这么多形式外壳呢？从开片的第一场暴动炸车开始其实在影像上用黑白就大可不必 而所有的情绪段落都来升格加大段配乐真的充分暴露导演对电影艺术的“粗通皮毛” 唯一可称道的是演员出身的导演对几名老演员的镜头表现尚对得起演员出身 但动辄怼脸的特写也同样令人出戏 学习了几部经典影片就不列举了 拿它跟《罗马》比真的有惹到我
一座城市出一个导演讲一个故事，用彩色多好。北爱尔兰问题在兴趣点上，处在中间的人好难，不过只涉及表面。口音就是可爱。
20220118 处处对标《罗马》却又时时落入下风的平庸之作，情绪音乐剧情都太满了，颇有些腻歪……孩子和俩老人的关系倒是表现得有亮点。不过更大的问题似乎是，孩童视角天然被免除了很多基本的判断，60年代很诸多冲突和被简化为教派之争。一家人被封闭在街区中寻找出路，离愁别绪成为唯一可回忆的自我观照。
看完感觉听辨爱尔兰口音的能力变强了。影片由多组日常生活片段构成，又不乏对北爱尔兰新教与天主教冲突的历史背景勾画，暴力与混乱被孩童的视角柔和，依赖门窗街巷自然形成的框架进行构图，体现对立与和解的关系。互文性作为点缀，将发生在他处的文化和故事穿插其中，比如电影中出现的几部电影、奶奶幻想中的香格里拉（还提到了《消失的地平线》）、小男孩看的阿加莎克里斯蒂等。有几处很动人的瞬间，最喜欢的是母亲气急败坏地拉着儿子把趁乱抢来的洗衣粉（？）送回商店，却恰巧被劫为人质的桥段，每一个转折都很精准。
超出预期，虽然私人，但莫名就感同身受，也许是呆萌的小男孩起了作用，真想拍一部自己的BB。另，一开始完全没认出来朱迪·丹奇
想起了之前的【罗马】，和国内拍的【八月】，说的都是导演自己的童年，用的都是黑白影调，其实【阳光灿烂的日子】也算，无非把现今变成黑白，童年的回忆是绚烂的。这么看也有套路。
和我唯一的共鸣就是我也要举家搬迁到月球，妈妈领巴迪送洗衣粉的举动可以看出信仰的力量，只是剧情上又显得那么刻意，个人推测本片在奥斯卡可能雷声大雨点小，最后分享结尾的话，致留下的故人，致离开的游子，致所有迷失的人
别扭的像是一个大人刻意学小孩子说话。如果是主观私人回忆，为什么讲述视角通篇都没落在小男孩身上？如果是客观历史映像，那全片无所不在的仰拍镜头是在卖萌吗？
乱世，童年，小城故事，看到很多乡愁电影的影子，儿时记忆零零散散，中间的波折与成长有些许草率，很多场景不免有堆砌符号之嫌，但小主演非常非常好。
回家之后就要挑一些 PG-13 的电影和爸妈一起看，看之前先去 IMDb 查 Parental Guide。这部电影总体比较私人化，奏鸣曲其中的一小段喜怒爱乐变奏旋律。有几处仰拍、特写给影片添加了一些滑稽感，但感觉场景的编排和剪辑仍然比较随意。
看了后悔的程度。肯尼斯布拉纳先生，您不会演也就罢了，现在连导也不会了吗？尽管剧情并不累赘，但这一个小时四十分钟的电影依旧显得无比漫长，节奏实在太差劲了。大多数情况下的黑白和彩色的转变都没有意义，所谓“电影艺术照亮动荡生活”的观点根本不需要这么表达。情绪破碎，故事刻意，仿佛揪着观众领子强迫大家认同这是一部【冲奖】片一样。
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