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.
2022年1月16日观看。文艺范十足，很不错，摄影真美。
这是啥？育儿教育指导片？小演员太灵了吧，骗人生孩子系列🤷🏻♂️
高开低走的片子。完全浪费了菲尼克斯的主演。和众多亲子心理探索题材的片子相比并没能看到更多的新意。小男主的角色定位和表演都没能打动我。黑白画面非但不能加分还丧失细节。最近几部黑白都有这个问题。
就像缓缓流过山林的溪流
4.5，男主与小侄子的爱恨情仇。直到最后一秒钟都还是在放采访的各种录音。孩子的视角是很独特的，回答的问题包括：你觉得未来会怎样？你想拥有哪种超能力？如果你的父母是你的孩子你会教他什么？中间有几段插入书本中的段落。男主给小侄子读的那本书，的确很有感觉。但说实话看的时候在想，还是不要养孩子比较幸福，你永远无法预知下一秒孩子会做什么，在复杂暴躁崩溃的边缘不断徘徊，还是一个人比较容易。去掉色彩的黑白，似乎把年代也一起抹去了，每个地方都没有太大的差别，楼房的稀疏而已。
3.5
我们也许通过别人发现自己，也通过自省发现自己。come on，come on
“亲爱的姐姐，我在给小外甥念历史故事——一位罗马皇帝被至亲背叛的故事。”《角斗士》
太温柔了，喜欢小朋友的灵魂拷问，还有凤凰叔的声线。parenthood真是又难又值得。2022.1.8想LA的沙滩，想乱糟糟的纽约，以及未曾去过却一直想去的新奥尔良。
eh,i just fucking hate children.
华金老了，也胖了。但岁月的沉淀仿佛也让他洗尽铅华，而演技则更是磨练的炉火纯青。在当今的年代，不是3D，就是4K，CG技术早已天马行空。所以每一部黑白影像的电影，大约都是怀着野心的。成年人的孤寂落寞，有时候无法避免。就好像到了某种瓶颈期，想突破一下好难。更何况身子骨也不如年轻时禁折腾了。
C'mon C'mon C'mon C'mon
《呼朋引伴》一直弥漫着温柔而又沉郁的气质，仿佛有堵无形的“第四面墙”，逼迫观众在树起的镜像中展开自我对话。电影文本挖掘出的问题引人深思，只是一番冥想之后得出的还是不够完美甚至无奈又无解的答案。
简直是 绝佳的跨年电影 哈哈哈 Phoenix is priceless 😌
好久没看黑白片了，摄影很棒，穿越过四个风格各异的美国城市，这样的色调也不会喧宾夺主。需要跟影像和时间一起放慢下来去体验这两位主角之间的bonding，孩子对世界的思考，成年人的焦虑。Over the years, you will try to make sense of that happy, sad, full, empty, always-shifting life you're in.
杰昆变华金，搞得我差点不知道还蛮喜欢的男演员出新片了
很长，还是黑白的，看舅舅带外甥，舅舅很闲有钱，外甥有个病怏怏哭兮兮的老爹，外甥就一个小屁孩，还各种作妖，无聊！看到睡着几次。台词太多了，就是各种巴拉巴拉巴拉，他们也自嘲了，不然零分。
断断续续看了一天才看完，真是太折磨了。
和小朋友做朋友，回归到还没学会人情世故的时候，随心所欲放声大叫。一直觉得下一秒就应该播come on, come on, come on, get through it🎶
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