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.
说到水床，有一个朋友在她重要考试前一天入住考场附近旅馆，一打开门才发现自己定的是水床房……
看到半夜 打车送我回家 第二天上班睡眠困乏但是一直开心
时间浓缩版，或者说年代限定版《当哈利遇到莎莉》，就只能寻找一些微妙的趣味了。大龄童星和保守人家女儿带你游旧花园，临了告诉你不成功还可以成家呀，不成功只是因为这个时代注定不成功嘛～
那组双向奔赴的镜头还挺感人。女主这个人物很飒也很特别。
this is literally pedophilia what the fuck
主人公的答案就像旋转门般在Yes和No之间来回，复古又小清新，剪辑视听依然是教科书级别的～
很青春的调调（抱着纯欣赏的心境 并不想经历） 那个口音其实我觉得是在两次嘲笑学口音的人 结束得措手不及 女主演得好 镜头下的她特写脸部质感都出来了 很美
并无深究对历史的怀疑和掌权者的欺骗，毕竟是小马，主要表现友谊就是魔法。3D小马超出预期，毛发感细节超好。歌舞片段很出彩，但我更爱剧集。
作为新世代的小马电影，除了三维动画和现代化城市和小镇，流行元素，曾经辉煌的独角兽躲进森林
看起来很随意的样子，反派无脑低幼，只能说是个半成品吧。
8，并不是低幼，纯粹的欢乐和善良，和近几年的raya，trolls一样，为这个越来越分裂的世界带来一丝光亮，CG小马宝莉和各种小动物真的萌翻了，歌声太美，小艺的变装歌超好听。ps菜头这种邪恶妈宝军阀真的适合这种真善美的电影吗
不停地想起 punch drunk love 感觉这就是teenage版，还是预告片好看吧，真的失望极了，还是在 apple tv 花6刀租的（但也可能是当下的心情不适合看这种小情小调
不俗的视听语言所以是看着很享受很有意思的片子，说有意思其实又没什么意思的故事… （waterbed开幕那晚拍Alana看Gary, 出门安排两个外形相近的人在旁边，被骗到一次… 看窗户缝不给反打；councilman在饭店那个借一点镜像的绕圈long take；日剧跑很讲究screen direction，从追逐运动变成相遇运动了⋯是会二刷看电影语言的片子但故事编织不能算精细
除了在破碎跳跃中寻求平衡，也拍出了某种“感官隔离”的状态和由内部延伸到外部的“反抗”，就像那辆顺坡而下的卡车，沿着逆流行驶，然后奔向彼此。
美国式的爱情，充满了捉摸不透的浪漫，在狂乱纷纭的薄雾里，却也始终有一条若有若无的路径，导引向最终的目的地。片名《甘草披萨》乍看之下，与内容似乎并无关联，或许影片所涉及的那个年代里的青春爱情，与甘草披萨存在某种内在共同性。
相比于大师和木兰花的朝圣而去悻悻而归，PTA这一部我至少看懂了，但不妨碍我仍然选择打三星。影片有一种奇怪的浪漫感，interesting, but not very interesting。进入颁奖季可能跟昆汀的好莱坞往事有异曲同工之处，虽然结果确实处处陪跑。最惊喜的是男主看起来挺灵，原来是已逝的Hoffman的儿子这一点被PTA整破防了。
剧情很俗套，骗骗小女孩子可以，里面配的歌不错 3.5/5
好喜欢PTA不紧不慢塑造人物的感觉啊 而且能游刃有余处理复杂的文本（Ben Safdie好会演哦哈哈
甘草披萨是个带着夏日气息的标题，清新舒畅的气质一反导演pta往常。影片对女性在社会不公平地位采用了直接描摹，片中女主角在不同男性角色间徒劳的奔来撞去，偶像剧般的浪漫开端都是以被当作工具结束。当她兜兜转转最终回到男孩身边时，PTA设计了一个如此“俗套”的结局，让人不由浮想联翩。包括甚至整个片子充满了俗套化的情节，却在整体散发着让人深思的内涵，你能很明显感到导演的表达不仅仅于故事本身，但对于如今越发懒得思考的观众来说就显得并不讨喜
除了喜欢片中的音乐，共情到那句“They (men) are all shits!”，我真的不能get到性欲和叶子齐飞的70年代，小白男跟坚强熟女扑朔迷离的暧昧故事，水床那些恶趣味梗我感受也不是那么强烈。嘲讽了一系列自我感觉良好的男人：浮夸的好莱坞，虚伪的政客，虚张声势的逐利者，就算是打纯真牌的男主，也要说句“要不是我你还在照相馆”。就都很shit。女主家庭环境窒息，职场被不同男上司性骚扰动手动脚，男人来“教”如何开卡车趁机揩油，下一秒便是女主长距离山路一把倒车。印象最深的是，女主坐在黎明的街头，前面是傻逼，身边是发情疯狗，看到橱窗的竞选海报，以为是一线逃离机会，原来就真的没有选择呀！
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