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.
在一切的“公正”和“正义”面前，我们无法反抗，只要反抗便是十恶不赦，现在的我们习以为常，已经麻木，对一切不去思考和批判，像个玩偶。
“民主”“审判”“自由”“反战”
2020，距离片中的年代有50年了，这一年美国的抗争比片中更激烈，因疫情死亡的人接近越战死亡人数的十倍。理想是好的，抗争是对的，可是抗争要意识到社会的主要矛盾，要知道真正的问题在哪儿，真正的敌人是谁，否则无论是几年一换，只换汤不换药，也是没有用的。
真的历史不在被记录下来的文字里，真的历史淹没在字与字之间的距离里。历史那么冰冷，静默，以至于那些以血为代价的摩擦，在清扫后也只留下法庭上对博的无力。致敬导演，思考必须严肃。
也许是鄙人考过社科院的美国研究系，成绩不赖，花了功夫钻研美国两百多年的来龙去脉，对美国当代史有所了解。
这是一个历史的书笺，插在60年代的「The whole world is watching」，又体认美国当前的政治局势进行表达。虽然长达两个小时但富于技巧性的拍摄手法和节奏感甚佳的剧本却不会让人疲倦，注意力始终能集中在这个很密的法廷故事之中，而演员各自精彩的表演将电影焊接得更有凝聚感。索金是想把抗议与审判，以及每个人的背景都挤进去，所以有时会让人觉得很仓促。
曾经我们看到的美国法院，是十二怒汉那样，12个人为了一位素不相识的小男孩在狭小的密室里推演辩论，最后男主角在昂扬积极的背景音乐中，满怀希望的走出法庭。那部电影里传达出来的美国精神和制度自信可见一斑。而在这部作品中的美国法庭，混乱无序，充满了偏见和愚昧。那种小人物在巨大的国家机器前的无奈与愤怒让身处大洋彼岸的我们都感到熟悉而陌生。那套公正的自由民主再也无法说服所有人了。
大胆预言一下: 冲奥➡️引爆内网舆论➡️引起各方撕逼(包括被gd利用以及被粉红嘲讽等等
3.5，事件发生的过程，在审判之中穿插，使得剧情看上去更紧凑。最后的念名单，非常的燃动人心！
"Inside the bar, it's like the '60s never happened. Outside the bar, the '60s were being performed for anyone who looked out of the window."
真正牛逼的是片子讲故事的形式，多角度多种叙事，正常叙事、脱口秀、历史影像交叠去拼凑出来一个时代风貌，让它既夸张到锣鼓喧天，又没有丢失扎根历史本身的重量。
最后的结案陈词说得人心沸腾，政府并不能代表国家本身，国家真正做主的应是人民本身。抛开电影回到反战这个点，美国人反战反的是他们的士兵与钱财在战争中受损而非战争的本身，这大家都知道的吧，毕竟“the whole world is watching”。
对话很有趣，某些部分很有深意，相当的精彩，主题也是非常值得思考，不多说了，懂的自然懂。
早已经猜到这样一部政治意味很强的电影会在奥斯卡取得青睐并在豆瓣获得高分了。一场反政府的游行集会被往往都会被美其名曰「民权」。美国普通民众，包括很多豆瓣自恃清高之人总是这样，只要是面对民众对抗政府，搞热血、示威、所谓对抗强权的这些东西，就必定高潮。电影中有句毒到不能再毒的鸡汤了：「思想从不应该被审判」。你的思想停留在你的脑子里，没人会审判你，但是把你的思想作为煽动民众暴乱的工具去非法对抗政府，影响政府的日常工作，那么就足以也活该被审判。诚然导演的意图是好的，想用这部电影和去年那件事情联系起来来证实政府的不公。但去年那件事情是美警之罪，而这件事情现在来看，我依然认为美国政府没有做错什么。三星全部给导演和演员，单论政治导向一星不值。
21-179. 對話太多太密集…剪輯感覺有點亂，get不到
能看得出来索金在努力扬长避短了，台词上妙语连珠大杀四方，但转场还是很生硬。虽然对于索金这种白左式的左我个人越来越不感兴趣，但是架不住60年代这个题材实在太能让人感同身受，那些政治命题在当下的语境中又产生了新的意义。如果要症候性地观看这部电影，无疑可以由此诊断出更深层次的宪政危机。不知道网飞选择此时上线这部电影是否有影射本届大选的意图，借用Abbie Hoffman的话：“酒吧之外是60年代，而酒吧内还是50年代。”玻璃窗之外是四面楚歌的反战人群，而一窗之隔的内部则都是觥筹交错的民主党议员正在电视上收看选举结果。这种建立在电影的叙事逻辑之上的内与外、历史与当下、对制度的维护还是变革的划分，在现实当中则发生了某种反转：银幕上的是那个已经远去的60年代，而银幕外的则是又一次“对政权的和平颠覆”。
法庭片这个种类在国内是没有的，二欧美的则越拍越精彩，文斗比武斗还要好看。
艾伦索金越来越左了？No. that’s not true.是这个世界正在变得越来越麻木、自私和不仁。
1.性别、种族歧视赤裸裸的体现 2.反越战中的嬉皮士表象和文化政治革命内里 3.轰动一时的大事件也是由偶然的个体和必然的趋势引发的 4.当法制变成人治，弱小的一方有多难维权，公权力的滥用 5.永远都不要小瞧脱口秀演员。
【9.2分】等待了这么多年，终于官宣了，太不容易了，小兰看新一的短信时的表情真就是由内而外的开心和害羞，太开心了……
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