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.
3.脑海中一直在想起《窃听风暴》；事情没有绝对的对与错、黑与白，而在于本身立场出发是否深信不疑；
赵震雄崔宇植朴熙顺啊！这阵容有不看的道理吗
立意不错，执法部门的灰色地带， 可惜拍的没啥吸引力，。 寡淡如水
有些许随意了，电影的后半段简直垮掉，白瞎了这么多我喜欢的优秀演员。
郑渊洁公司出品，非常适合小孩子看！刚看完，现场的小朋友频频笑出声！能够跟小朋友共享童年经典，突然有一种年代感。强烈期待魔方大厦，以及魔方宇宙的更多作品！
本来挺简单的一个事搞的七拐八拐的以为增加了悬疑性其实让整个片子疲软了很多
剪辑有点乱，导演来回横跳，想拍出冰山一角的感觉，但晃到了我的眼睛
孩子们的世界真的太美好了！简单，纯粹，热情，有矛盾也能立刻合好。好喜欢鲁西西还有博士这两个角色！博士小哥哥好帅！
对于这个卡司表和人物设定来说，剧情太平淡，节奏不紧凑，没有很吸引人目不转睛的点。崔宇植属于是蛮神奇的一个年轻演员，时常让我在觉得他“很好拿捏”和“非常难搞”之间横跳。
这个故事很有情怀感，毕竟是郑渊洁的原作改编的嘛～做出来的电影效果也很有年代感，对于学习的批判不知道现在的小孩子是不是能看懂～家长们能不能懂？学习成绩真的不应该是单一的衡量孩子的标准…希望现在的小朋友多看点有这种思辨意义的影视作品…虽然大概是看不懂的吧～
想说赵震雄大叔终于演反派，然后一直等到跑字幕都没等来“反转”…
剧本配不上这个演员阵容/“是当真实的警察还是迂腐的官僚？”以恶制恶的故事拍成这么不爽的也是一种实力（bushi
韩国真的牛逼 类型把玩成熟 另类的韩版“训练日”
电影很一般呀，但是能看到赵震雄亦正亦邪的警察形象就很值得了
中规中矩，总是为了正义。然而程序正义才是真正正义，此片也只有韩国才拍的出。
导演功力不行，浪费演员。剧本太差了。好长一段时间的韩国片都没劲。
满腔理想的小白走向社会然后社会老师傅教育，最终成了跟师傅一样的人，这个世界不止有黑白，还有游离的灰。
小茄子放在网盘的 实在是太一般了 班长对小警察的信任和爱护莫名其妙的 不像一个久经江湖的人（哪怕有父亲那层渊源）
连人设都立不起来，反而是标签化配角们有模有样，例如圣母、恶女……
童话大王郑渊洁就是80，90后的神。
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