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.
现实是，现在亳不怀疑真碰见大事，这个星球上会有一拨人像片子里一样荒腔走板。
居然有一种欢欢喜喜过大年的感觉，小李子教授油腻鸡贼胆小最后居然良心发现演得还是蛮细腻的，甜茶是怎么做到那么丑还那么性感吸引人的呢😂求沙丘滤镜呀😂
不愧是“改编自即将发生的真实事件”，对现实生活的讽刺鞭辟入里，跟以往的灾难片也都不一样，结尾好评。
上网这么多年，你们竟然还会在任何严肃的事情上相信互联网公司。
架空世界后亚当·麦凯功力直线下降了几层，不如以前那些解构妙笔生花。不过结尾还是很大快人心的。布兰切特和小李这条线笑死。
6.5/10。不遗余力黑美国政府，黑社交媒体成瘾的世人，但我总觉得差了口气不够尽兴，《波拉特》做得就好很多。不要抬头=不要戴口罩，讽刺性很强。一直想到沈腾的表情包“累了，毁灭吧”，在地球被毁之前可以和甜茶约炮也死而无憾吧。A妹唱歌笑死我了。
我愿称之为这几年的讽刺疯癫之最，每一个情节都砰砰打出窟窿眼，最终一起灭绝要多爽有多爽。但从想简单活着的角度来看，我还是只求这个丧到笑出声的电影吧，他就永远只是电影的好…
零嘴揩油，网络迷因，选举彩头，火箭英雄，利润至上，资本作秀，恐慌暴动，人民分裂，温馨躺平，太空移民，Jonah Hill 成最终赢家……将气候变暖置换成彗星撞地球的寓言，可以
牛逼 about damn time 来个accurate satire of reality 精准啊 Leo的觉得是一半Fauci一半Michale Moore
我觉得不能算烂片，但是麦凯这次有点太放飞，加上妆发非常草率，感觉整体就是个SNL段子开发出来的大电影。
但马斯克混搭乔布斯实在是太形象了！
想到伊藤润二的《地狱星》，但比较之下问题也就出来了，尽管同样设置了一个“彗星撞地球”的麦格芬，《不要抬头》的时间完全是停滞的，每场戏间的人物状态的改变是来自于编剧遥控器而非彗星的自然运动，换句话说，这里只有一幅幅从真实世界中抽取出来的平面的肖像，而没有真正的“人”
人类最伟大的地方就是啥都在自己身上做实验。——拉宾诺维奇
即使是一包免费的零食，经过手都能留下利益，这就是政治和资本。一旦被政治和资本渗透绑架，即便是科学极致的现实，也能被花样包装，进而层层剥削。年度最佳黑色喜剧，以末日倒数为主线，呈现众生反智，以及一小拨人螳臂当车，然而，即便末世确切到来，人们也不过如此——新冠早已预演。所谓荒诞，其实距离我们并不遥远。
这部讽刺喜剧挺有意思的，虽然不是很好笑反而很可气，但毛骨悚然的是，有些地方是可以当成纪录片来看的。
每个时代每个导演都应该有自己的彗星撞地球。从这点上说，这版至少是及格了。
看了好久以为电影要完了，看眼进度条正好到二分之一，崩溃了。想不通一个连讲故事都讲不好的剧本是怎么签下这么多大牌的。整个片子像好莱坞集体复盘这两年来的政治热点，还要故作讽刺和幽默。卡司阵容强大，但是感觉好拥挤，看电影居然还被迫听Ariana grande唱完一首歌。一星不能再多。
太混乱了吧，这演技纯靠吼；都懂很讽刺，但是真的不高级，别搞得像民主党多白莲花似的；全片最亮眼的还是A妹的歌；小李子收拾收拾老了也还蛮帅，Cate这妆好假，大表姐的meme什么时候发出来官方版。。。
是喜剧吗？感觉挺现实的。。。现实何尝不是这么荒诞！
好严肃一片子！演着演着就开始往艺术片的方向走，然后就出现了一些动人时刻，挺有趣的。（BTW，最后那个彩蛋实在是太愚蠢了，大减分）
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