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.
暴力伤害、身体侵犯、荡妇羞辱、宗教训诫、道德指摘、情感勒索、权力支配、母职绑架、生殖压迫……一边集齐厌女的层层面向，一边剖开女性的深层恐惧。接踵而至的嵌套式厄运，如梦魇和回声般循环往复阴魂不散。最后的血腥套娃场面简直惊世骇俗。
5.5/10。充斥大量符号和隐喻的抽象「现实主义」电影，类似《不要抬头》，利用讨巧题材和现实元素展示了女性在男性支配的现实世界里面临的各种「恐怖实景」，但表达本身空洞无物，掺杂着迷幻剂的feminism horror。
这片子绝不能被扣上“恐男”的帽子！！那我们的方向就歪了！
是我们当下需要的“女性主义”电影。画面色彩和故事内核很Midsommar，最后一段令人瞠目结舌的隐喻有Mother!的味儿了，很wtf很直白，要是再克制点就更好了。but still影史级的恐怖桥段+精准的对toxic masculinity/slut shaming/PUA的刻画和反击=年度恐影。
视听配乐和怪异的氛围塑造，继续延续了导演从机械姬开始的一贯个人风格，从影片一开始这种不安的感觉就一直存在，但是直到最终的分娩，也没有顶到一个嗨点。如果说这一部的核心思想在于探讨男女之间的凝望与关系的话，那真的是没有讲好。
3.7/美学和色调完全戳中我的点，但是电影十分令人不适，因为太过于真实了。大概这就是现代社会下面女人的生存环境，砍手和环环相扣的场景cult片爱好者狂喜。作品思想从同一张脸大概就能感受，意味深长，但是整个美学和表达依然让我觉得，导演是个男人，让人佩服。
繁殖和塑造“男性”的其实是男性自己古老而野蛮的观念而不是性器;我们被拒绝入内所造成的伤害标记了我们的无可辩驳的同一性。隐喻的清澈和工整与诗意十足统一了，这种统一成为第一目标而使叙事似乎只发生在十五分钟以内。
这不比咒吓人？？恐男大合集 最后一幕男人的自我循环孕育有被震到
探索男人的世界，最终被痛苦折磨，但这一切的原罪源自两性之间的恒沟。爱情也许如同田园风光和漂亮民宿一样令人产生愉悦，但两性之间无法一致的取向，让对方都产生敌对的臆想，如同石像的两面。最后套娃的设定更是将男人的卑劣展示的淋漓尽致，看完之后，谁人不恐男。
壮观可叹（本片和贝尔法斯特都向下发现了HDR风光片的可用之材）
5.5/10。充斥大量符号和隐喻的抽象「现实主义」电影，类似《不要抬头》，利用讨巧题材和现实元素展示了女性在男性支配的现实世界里面临的各种「恐怖实景」，但表达本身空洞无物，掺杂着迷幻剂的feminism horror。
开头是搞笑的，而且景色拍得很好，就是节奏很慢。有一块星空很美，但很假，就有点怪。
②“他们说女人很温柔很爱流泪，说这很美”，女人啊，你的弱点是善良，女主的愧疚，内心的不安就来自于此，没有错，却总要怀疑自己，以及结尾点题爱，“爱啊，多少罪恶假汝之名以行”，而“女人最大的愿望是被爱”
还不错，对男人的血泪控诉，喜欢看生孩子的这次过瘾了。
影片以情感PUA作为故事的切入点，极具隐蔽性和欺骗性，深入刻画了男权对女性的精神控制，闪回片段以血橙色为主色调，Harper和James的对话也是本片唯一的全景，揭露了两人的地位关系。影片一开始整体色调鲜明，实则暗藏玄机，恰恰完美地演绎出危险正在无形中靠近，导演拍摄出男性带给女性的不安与惶恐，另外教堂中男性和女性的雕像设定也是细思极恐。喜欢影片的最后一幕，既血腥又恐怖，细节暗示到位，暗示着不同男人拥有同种精神的象征，将恐男带来的沉浸感发挥的淋漓尽致，配乐也是恰到好处。
如果把所有意指符号都很清晰地堆砌在观众脸上，那么这部片就既不算是诡异浪潮，也称不上心理恐怖，而是很无聊的形象政论吧。不过，如果能把这部片子介绍给大陆男宝看看也是不错的，起码能让他们理解一下女性对男性的恐惧从何而来，然而大陆女性要面临的问题可不是人家西方后现代社会那样简单。
宗教符号和隐喻很多，艺术又cult，血腥又古典优美。是女性可能遇到的所有困境了。
氛围很creepy 剧情=没有剧情 所有镜头都是象征和隐喻这点不太喜欢 男性凝视也让人浑身不适 比仲夏夜惊魂差些 跟<我们><星之彩>差不多水准 不是我的type 视觉上很好看 下次别拍了 3.5
加兰的视听语言仍然一流，影片谈不上什么隐喻，所有的东西都非常明显，庸俗软弱又多管闲事的房东，“误会”女主意思的暴露跟踪狂裸男，无理取闹小混混，爹味伪善牧师，控制欲暴力前夫，每个人都代表男性丑恶的一面，而且他们“生生不息”，分布在各个年龄段，而不管他们变成什么形态，对女性的渴望与厌恶永不改变，繁殖欲永不消减。PS：断手和“生育”场景真的san值狂掉
有一丢丢莫名其妙的结尾，我还希望再知道一点，到底是这个女的疯了，太内疚，还是咋滴。讲真大屏幕上生孩子就这么整真的没事吗？看着多少有点。。。反正啊是每个人都看得了
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