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.
确实不温不火，不功不过，演得确实可以，但原本可以挖掘的更深入，但为了目前大环境，拍的过于主流过于俗套，
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相当莫名的剧本，大小威网球打得好和这爹到底有多大关系？需要拍一部电影来对这个控制狂、自负又自卑、毫无责任感、一事无成、四处留情的男人歌功颂德？与其说是理查德·威廉姆斯成就了两个网球巨星，不如说是两个女儿的努力、拼搏与汗水成就了这个糟烂的爹。有句话说的好，女人成功了不管和男人有没有关系男人都要来蹭一下、把荣誉往自己身上揽。说回电影本身，剧情稀烂、转折怪异，人物动机不充分（至少展示的不充分），主要演员演技也就一般。
影片也侧重于父亲角色 所以体育比赛的场面拍的比较马虎 也可以理解 还是不错的传记片。
华纳的新片头好丑啊，以前不是只有动画片才用吗…小威在这部作品里被完全边缘化了。一个充满矛盾的虎父，规划大师，扫兴专业户，把自私和控制欲包装成爱心和善意，对他的评价其实完全取决于两个女儿的成功与否，赢者通吃，胜者为王。结尾的反高潮设计不错。拍黑人女性的成长史大概是目前好莱坞最保险的题材了。
我永远不会忘记我爸说的，这是我们一生为之奋斗的一刻，保持专注，不要畏惧。
现在的小孩子想法都这么成熟了吗？简直就是人生导师了～
好故事拍得很普通就是失败，她俩的父亲确实是一个很好很特别的着手点。
Be Alive响起时热泪盈眶，碧神局总是有魔力
自負又自卑的父親，自負於女兒網球天賦，又自卑於自身身份，固執的父親最後還是遂了女兒的意。
没看过一场网球比赛的我可以说是听着大小威的名号长大的（说明电视可没少看），14岁拿到1200百万美元的代言，老美的职业体育发展确实厉害。电影还行吧，史皇身材保持挺好。真不觉得完美编排别人的人生有什么好值得大书特书的。
是好看的，特别古典的传统好莱坞励志剧情片，《幸福来敲门》的金钱至上爱拼就会赢价值观，讲《摔跤吧爸爸》的狼性内卷教育，对于咱们老中做题家来说实在太无聊了，还不如感慨一下职业化的魅力拍得淋漓尽致。威尔史密斯表演偏执、精明、疲惫，多智近妖，活脱脱一个美国刘德华。
这特么是美国版《我和我的父辈》啊？！实在不能理解，2022年了，为什么这种毫无创新，没有诚意的好莱坞流水线真人改编体育电影能杀入奥斯卡，还一路冲击到最佳影片提名！难以想象，奥斯卡如今都被黑人，同性，少数族裔这些政治正确绑架成这副鬼样子。本来对黑人没什么坏印象，但看着威尔·史密斯整天叼着牙签，吊儿郎当，自我吹嘘，拿着保护做PUA的挡箭牌，一路把孩子当筹码，换取全家的好生活，证明自己不是废物，挟孩子以令诸侯，反击自我敏感的肤色问题，鸠占鹊巢，目中无人，还一路顺风顺水，取得成功，反倒让人觉得小人得志，反感顿起。也许，导演本就不想为黑人平权，而是故意借机讽刺成功的黑人背后，有多么滑稽，要这样的话，那还是白人牛批。
今天我们处于的世界充满了暴力，谎言和利益，人人都想最快速度成功，在这样的大环境中有一个全心保护又方法得当的原生家庭已是鲜见，更不用说理查德作为一个有色人种的底层阶级，能有如此长远的认知和对孩子天性的了解，太难和理想化，但在真实世界就确实发生了。理查德这个人物一定会被鸡娃派和放养派激烈的争论，教育和控制之间的界限如何把握，个人认为理查德做的很好了，即便不好的时候也会有妻子和教练所代表的第三方意见所纠偏，在坏消息迭出的日子里，少有的满怀希望的片子。
或许多年后人们回想起这部电影，印象最深的却是史皇的奥斯卡大比兜。
大小威的伟大无需赘言。 小威几乎就是女网的goat 黑人的超强爆发力确实让两姐妹受益良多。也很难得有个这样有远见的爸爸。
《20世纪女人》的伦理有多个视角所以还相对有趣，这回只有一个视点就太单调了
这电影好温柔！声音处理非常好，给人的感觉就是非常安心。但它竟然不是纪录片！！是演的？？！我心碎了。
连着看了三部传记或类传记类型的电影，这一部最好我也最喜欢，主要原因在于起承转合都兼顾到了，没有解决的戛然而止，也没有过程的一成不变。按理说理查德威廉姆斯更像是独裁者威廉姆斯，坚持自己既定的计划，不送任何人打破，偏执，固执，不通情达理，只讲自己的道理。这世界上可能不止他一个这样的人，他成功了，有人为他拍了传记电影，才不至于沦为笑柄，他失败了拍成肥皂剧也没人愿意看吧。威尔史密斯的演出很棒，尤其是走路姿势，浓浓的运动积损妆O型腿。这两年我没有大学时那样迷他了，但我仍然特别期待他这次能终于圆自己的影帝梦，因为他真的值得。
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