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.
虽然节奏、调度、音乐和演员都堪称优秀。但以偷窥视角展示身体，以一种近乎残忍的方式要求观众共情，在威慑大于同情和愤怒时，不是宣称子宫自由，是反滥交。
3.5。可以看出导演致敬了一些经典的好莱坞科幻片，作为一部漫画改编的无厘头软科幻喜剧，这部电影还是合格的，如果要把他对标火星救援、星际探索这种硬科幻正片，那肯定是不能比较的。
女人也想要享受性的快乐，欲望比羞愧更强烈！但是风险全部由女人承担，甚至死亡。时刻担心会不会怀孕，一条还是两条，男人只管爽了就好。
太疼了，女人看了更觉得难受。没人能帮你，孤立无援。
“这是一种只会攻击女人的病，把她们变成家庭主妇的病。”
青春版女性瘾者。这些紧张的情绪化的镜头表述，极好。我们独自与这个世界战斗，也是与自己战斗。自由是有代价的，要流血，要疼，要坚持不妥协，要承担。梦想、艺术、文学被这样结实、惨烈却又不乏克制地演绎出来，演员选得真好。
前两天看完Call Jane之后就更期待这部了，和美国人拍的不痛不痒、所谓感人暖心的Call Jane不一样，本片用十分写实的手法展现了女大学生Anne在怀孕、私下堕胎前后的心理变化，给人的震撼不是Call Jane可以比的。我认为没有什么比逼真的堕胎画面更能让人感受到Anne的走投无路和被逼无奈，直观的呈现就是逼着你直视非法堕胎对女性心理生理的双重伤害，让你在电影院里没法逃避。
4.5调色优秀，当堕胎过程被真实、血淋淋地呈现出来，观众才会更能体察到女性的痛苦吧，看完心情很沉重…
诚然在《四月三周两天》那样的文本与影像之后再难以有所突破，所以这电影才会取巧地去强调‘正发生’。手持摄影的临场感确实是符合的形式，不过文本上的内容还是苍白了些。很多戏份完全是乏善可陈。
一点遗憾是没有看到法语原声的版本 但意大利的配音演员倒是没太出戏。 “什么都可以发生，但是怀孕不行，这是世界末日。这是一种病，只会攻击女人的病，让女人只能成为家庭主妇的病。”这是1960年，时至今日 它依然如此，正发生。性是美好的，欲望是不应该压抑的，但如果享受它的前提是有可能怀孕，是牺牲一整个人生，试问谁不为之动摇，谁不后怕。多么希望这不是只有女性可以共情的，多么希望这不是只有女导演才能演绎的。我只是暂且幸运的，但幸运不常存。只希望能代替恐惧和后怕的是行动和愤怒。
女主好看，皮肤细腻，眼睛眉毛鼻子经典型法国味，后背线条狠好，一直都穿挺少。女配和女主真像，还眼熟，果然是燃女里头的女配，主要任务也是搞堕胎
7.5 模糊的临场感，完全聚焦于身体政治而几乎忽视了环境的罪恶，对于内容的衍生比起相同题材的其他作品相差甚远，只有疼痛感是真切的。
比起蒙吉的《四月三周二天》高下立见，差了好几个档次，社会性、时代感不足，剧情、调度、功力都比较一般，好在演员不错，演出了疼痛感。
2.5 强迫观者与私密的痛楚共情的思路很不可取，得到的启示不过是反滥交，整部电影对于身体的拍摄都有一种偷窥的色情视角
独孤月在月球每天躺平放飞自我的生活被直播，还成为了全球次顶流，顶流是刚子，这顺序是按武力值排的吧哈哈哈
拍的很简单，故事流水账，基本没有探讨，有一个脐带的画面，情绪张力很足
剪脐带部分实在是太痛了。“大部分医生都是反对堕胎的，他们不觉得那是一种女人自己的选择”这句话绝对是今年听过的最恐怖的一句，而且就连朋友也对自己说“这样做是犯法的，这不关我们的事”这该有多绝望。女性的子宫应由女性做主，过去是，现在是，未来也是。我们无法改变过去，但我们还可以改变今天和未来，我们需要更多的人站出来去阻止这些正发生。
20220624 The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade.| If the US Supreme Court confirms its draft decision, women will die. The Justices who vote to strike down Roe will not succeed in ending abortion, they will only succeed in ending safe abortion._The Lancet| Men shouldn't be making laws about women's bodies.| 从未停止过，依旧正发生。
大改原著结尾！所有cue萨特的地方我都爆笑了… 不知道为什么要和《钛》比，这部片子就是在找共情，情感机制完全不一样，所有在求大姨妈小组接过血气的女性懂都懂，ps. Anne为什么是黑头发我好出戏啊。
诚然，此类题材的影片再多多少都不会嫌多。但仅从电影艺术的完成度及表现力谈及，本片拿下金狮多少有些过誉了。大概场外因素加了很多分，而且还是女性导演。横向对比，在近几年的金狮奖中，摄影比不上《无依之地》，剧本比不上《罗马》，技术比不上《水形物语》，纵向对比，从技术、摄影、表演、剧本等方面切入，更是逊色于《犬之力》、《上帝之手》、《暗处的女儿》等一众影片。除去题材，整体实在乏善可陈。
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