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.
包裹着天真的，是虚假廉价的外壳。
妆发和男女主的演技都一流，但故事欠缺深度，属于那个年代的🇺🇸美国
很好，不愧是80年代的剧情，影射独裁者和纳粹。以前就一直很喜欢机器猫的变小装置，很想住在模型里，还是2D看着舒服。
和里卡多一家拿的一样的剧本吧…对电影本身兴致不大，但是 劳模姐！封后吧！你值得！加菲的演技也有进步不过跟劳模姐相比接不住戏啊
repo：杰西卡·查斯坦非常出色地表现了塔米·菲强大的表演力。传教士的每一次布道都是一场小型表演，表演能力强、口才出众的人会吸引到越来越多的信徒。
没什么好说的，每年必看的kpi，哆啦A梦好可爱哦！天赐我们自由！
好坞制传记啊【yawn【越往后劳模姐越出彩，年轻戏份还有点生硬（可能是因为塞嘴里的假体过于明显？）到后来就大杀特杀了。对我来说说服力不够的大概是Tammy Faye的声音可能不够…evangelical？热情倒是够了【或许是因为我atheist【【加菲在旁边一比好弱…是连妆造都弱下去的那种程度。整体很平无甚波澜，最大功用（？）大概是把Tammy Faye这个传奇人物生平大致工整地讲出来了吧。
杰西卡演技太好了，希望她演点真的女主电影吧，加菲啊...差太多了，别再演戏了，看了你那么多部没有一部电影让我对角色印象深刻的，演得太差了！怎么做到一部又一部男主的？
劳模姐封神之作，至少颁奖季我觉得她是我心中的最佳女主。 服化道歌曲和题材都是我挺有兴趣的点，看着就是不断惊叹的过程。
不是劳模姐最好的电影，但是对于她来说，可能真的是生涯难得的最好时机。
#TIFF 2021#影片还是传统的传记片套路，但杰西卡·查斯坦真的太拼了，整容式妆发加上她本身的造诣，完全就是大变活人，妥妥的一个缺爱但虚荣、可怜又可悲的神婆，上次这种演法还是《至暗时刻》里的加里·奥德曼，希望查斯坦也和他一样好运，能捧回一座小金人。
非常格式化的冲奥传记片，时间线的过长让整个故事只是被叙述了一遍而没有时间被挖掘。反观这个颁奖季另一部相似题材的《里卡多一家》，后者明显在捕捉细节、以小见大方面高出一筹，这也导致了同为影后竞争者的妮可塑造了一个人而不是名人符号，而查斯坦精湛的演技只是把人物生平的大事件复原了一遍。另外co-star的对比太惨烈，隔壁巴登和妮可配合着擦出火花，这边加菲不论妆发怎么改变，微表情体态口音还是tick tick boom，查斯坦在毫无痕迹地塑造着人物人生历程时，加菲不变的人物处理让他从丈夫变成了儿子的感觉。个人真的很希望查姐这样优秀敬业的演员能够拿下影后（尤其是之前被哈维公关黑掉了），但感觉这种太拖沓的传记成片虽然会被学院提名然而很难拿奖，学院喜欢的都是那种围绕一件事情或一个时期精准打击的传记片。
女主演得真好，最后的歌也很有感染力，可以看出下了很大功夫。片子倒是一般般了，浮于表面，浪费了女主。2022.7.10
充滿友情的故事，宇宙是自由書寫的場所，眼睛在看著的設定非常能體現奧威爾的世界
小夫成为主角，以及不带出木衫玩已经是官方玩梗了……为什么我看反派头子有种看皮诺切特的幻视……
女主演得真好，最后的歌也很有感染力，可以看出下了很大功夫。片子倒是一般般了，浮于表面，浪费了女主。2022.7.10
塔米菲被PUA的大半生，她妈再婚，自己能去教堂弹琴，女儿去不了教堂被孤立，她妈不仅不安慰她，反而一直打击她，搞得她十分缺爱，一直在容忍她丈夫伤害自己。当然对她伤害最大的就是她老公，利用她出名，敛财，出轨都要甩锅她！让我不解的是，她那么支持LGBTQ，为什么在性方面那么无知啊，为什么不离婚啊！后来发现她07年就去世了，前夫居然出狱了还到处蹦跶，真是好人不长寿啊！塔米菲居然和鲁保罗关系很好，舍弃这条线太可惜。塔米菲这个女主太被动了，剧本还是有问题！加菲为什么还是这么嫩，不过演得挺邪气，但跟劳模姐比，还是有差距的，真芭比肯。劳模姐这次拼了，还一展歌喉，居然还是个大vocal；不过还是靠毁容这个得奥斯卡老套路，但得夸化妆是真牛逼啊！劳模姐说塔米菲的本质是真诚，眼睛是内在的展现，所以才叫这个片名吧！
意外很好看！整体画风很有年代色彩，尤其50s 60s的故事糖果色配色非常舒适。Tammy的人生真是如同传奇，每次上帝都能奇迹般把她从低谷中拯救出来。最后救赎的故事狠狠感动到我，我一个非基督徒听结尾Battle Hymn of the Republic听得狂流眼泪，而且Jessica唱得也太好了我一度以为是配音...加菲真的很软🥺最后白发造型一出来我刷的一下流眼泪（终于理解美队粉看复4心情了、、）总之真的比预期好太多！虽然中间按年份讲故事的地方稍感冗长但毕竟传记片嘛也合理👌
为劳模姐量身定做的冲奥片，然后就只剩陈词滥调
一流的梳化和表演背后，其实说的是一个极具时代性的故事。传统的传教者在目前文化下的飘摇境况，是几十年来各种危机的缓慢积淀。影片匠气重了些，节奏也有待商榷，但不影响它发人深省的力度。
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