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.
婆婆给10w那里好感动，但是前面铺垫那么久我都还是以为钱会省下来花给家人。看到那个包的时候，想起了妈妈，她好像也从来没给自己买过一个包~
草笛“我年轻时可是想进宝冢演男主的”
合租房广告片，老了没钱卖房租房住并没有那么美好
最后，为了天海佑希看的这部片，竟然还默默埋着她在宝冢演男役的梗，而这个帅女子，真是把“人妻”演出了上下铺兄弟的感觉[破涕为笑]。电影最后，后藤夫妇搬进了共享公寓解决了养老问题，忽而想起天海佑希说自己不愿结婚的原因是不喜欢家里有别人……所以说，喜欢独立空间的人还是要努力挣钱
人穷志短，人穷戒心多，人不潇洒只因贫，贫贱夫妻百事哀
一般，天海女王和大叔的演技当然在线，最后强行HE有些强颜欢笑啊。卖了房子还只有70w存款，这是日本底层民众吧，太惨了啊。
就挺好玩儿的 不过他们后来住那种sharehouse真的有吗
对谁来说都是很棒的结局！所以啊，还是要有房子的，不然怎么养老或者变现
天海佑希和松重丰演的喜剧片。中年夫妻双双失业，丈夫父亲离世需要花钱办葬礼，丈夫母亲养老需要花钱，自己女儿要结婚需要花钱办婚礼。花钱的地方非常多，存款越来越少，无论如何节流都无法阻止入不敷出。焦虑，甚至惶恐，掌握财政大权的女主人几近崩溃。在这个过程中发生了很多有趣的事情，婆媳的关系越来越好。最后当然是柳暗花明了，困难的日子总会熬过去，夫妻俩又再找到了工作。有多少存款不是最重要的，最重要的是一家人能够团圆、和睦。
finally原来是广告，作为广告很用心了:-D
慢慢步入中年的人和岁数较大的人看了会有更多感触，女主和丈夫年纪半百，上有老下有小，父亲刚过世，夫妻两人双双失业，存款不多。结尾是圆满的，生活总是不尽如人意，态度很重要，男主和女主，未曾放弃，重新找工作，想办法节省开支，放下尊严和家人坦白协商，找朋友帮忙，虽然疲惫，虽然无奈，虽然困惑，但什么都不剩的时候，还有自己的双手。感到心里不平衡时，想想父亲的遗言，柿子饼最多不过三个，人生不要贪多(记不全了)，知足常乐
很真实的中年家庭的生活啊，有柴米油盐，也有欢声笑语，关于如何养老，或者说度过老年生活，给出了些参考。生前葬我觉得可以。
虽然是鸡汤型喜剧电影。看完简直焦虑感爆棚。过于理想化的大团圆结尾，更像编剧摆烂。天海女王都没有挽救这个烂剧本
本以為會看得焦慮，結果還挺輕描淡寫ε-(´∀｀; )反正東亞人不配養老hhhh
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自己喜欢的东西不要贪多，钱够用就行，过好每一天，片子有许多地方很搞笑
这个如此作孽的童话故事看得我十分忧伤，女王和五郎叔都救不了。
故事还是挺有趣的。但并不是我想要看的社会问题。电影过于美化了。share house这种结局，真的不现实吧。
这么好看 评分低....
看完觉得我们这代人老去的时候，很可能也会遇到同样的问题，虽然是喜剧，但看完觉得很忧伤啊
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