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.
依然是我这些年看过的最棒的动画，也强烈推荐Hilda的两季系列动画。
巨魔开花的那一段真的很美，可惜情节转变的过于生硬，和动漫还是差了点
可爱温柔的童话故事，故事很治愈很温柔，推荐观看
这次是母爱主题的奇幻续旅。果然改变阿尔伯特的唯一方法就是让他看到巨魔所见。其中有一句台词特别戳中人心：母爱不应该被视作理所应当。
我不管我不管就是五星就是五星，我爱这些可可爱爱的生物，我哭了我爱了，第三季快来！！！
有被温暖到，“从来没有任何东西能够阻止她坐起来，但她没有这么做”
人类在知道原委之后应该搬家吧。从始至终人类都自私，都不够温柔
The mother's love should not be taken for granted.
《希尔达》真的是《怪诞小镇》之后最棒的儿童动画了，剧情有趣。
除了那个男的真的让我超级恶心之外，非常好看
电视剧版剧情弱的缺点被放大了。续接第二季结尾人类&巨魔的惊悚互换，讲了一个半小时居然是母爱主题，有点白瞎剧版那么多有趣的设定（我那么大一只雷鸟呢！）…主角依然没什么成长空间，感觉就是没必要拍成电影。
heres the thing. when im interested in some stuff, i definitely gna learn it. ✊
有些失望，但整体还是好看的，有些设定竟让我想到了新中国成立后那段时期的事情？
每个情感的细节部分，都自然地流露。妈妈再一次看到希尔达到看到希尔达掉下山缝时奔跑的泪水，鸽子最后从头上飞出，那种自然的感情还是让人觉得很贴切
巨魔坚硬的外壳里有颗温暖的心 母爱即大爱 人与巨魔和谐共处 真的很治愈！好希望有第三季！
是我爱的希尔达
3.5 所以山丘之王死了 大家和和睦睦 当无事发生过？
打开之前还会有些奇怪为什么电影版的评分比起剧差了这么多，看了之后觉得可能是剧版的节奏比起影版要好一些，影版完全是拍给小孩子看的电影。
主旨为母爱，挺适合全家人聚在一起看看的，尽管还没看希尔达这部剧，但是依然不影响其温馨爆表。
一直很喜欢希尔达里讲妈妈的部分，总算抽出一整个篇章来讲，很感动～
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