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.
在我心里，没有一部电影可以拍好朝鲜战争。电影一方面太浓墨重彩，一方面又太过苍白，不论如何都很难重现70年前那些轻描淡写又重如泰山的牺牲。看到某些场面可能想说太夸张啦！但曾经有比这更夸张的；有些场面想说太单调了，但现实比这些还要苍白。但不管怎么说，都还是庆幸有这些描写朝鲜战争的片子，至少他们可以提醒一代又一代的中华儿女铭记这段艰难的时光。
有了第一部铺垫，第二部就显得没那么拖沓了，而且冲锋陷阵的镜头比较多，总体来说，也是一部抛头颅洒热血的战争片。
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1.炸桥戏几个段落组合的不错，志愿军炸桥与美军诱敌的技战术对比表现有所提高。
整体观感挺好的，这本来就是历史改编，大结局改不了，与爱国绑架无关，这是部优秀的战争片！
我觉得各方面都远比第一部要成熟，至少是统一的不像第一部那么割裂
指导员的妆是怎么回事啊，提心吊胆一直以为他快不行了
一个导演画风统一多了 倒叙的方式也很徐克 只不过两个小时的高潮后劲特别疲惫 炸桥找了个寂寞有些寒凉 平河炸坦克那个画面应该能留存很久
太乱了。没重点没节奏。照《狙击手》差距太大了。
他们的牺牲是带着祖国的尊严，是“此去泉台招旧部，旌旗十万斩阎罗”，我们的安定是带着烈士的遗愿，是“王师北定中原日，家祭无忘告乃翁”，
期待电视剧版
使命、荣誉和坚毅让他们战斗到最后！致敬向死而生的英雄！
比上部好看许多。总算称得上一部完整的电影。比起战争史诗，影片更靠近个体与一场战斗故事。七连众人都迎来结局。其中算出彩一点的数韩东君的平河。比其他几位老油子总多点纯粹味道。最喜欢最后万里倚在哥哥的遗体旁也冻成冰塑，兄弟俩在喷火器烤炙下随融水漂走，千里燃烬，万里苏醒的设计。
很奇怪，不但缺点继承第一部，原来的优点也给整没了，战术细节不突出，特效渲染像动画，后期配音太出戏，连嘴型都对不上。很多镜头两部共用，所以说最开始应该就只有一部，硬是剪成两部来圈钱，不地道啊
感觉不如第一部了，没哭出来，有点像以前玩过的射击游戏。能够想到从水管进入泵房真是厉害！
只为了记住革命先辈为了我们现在幸福安稳的生活付出了多少
比起第一部差了剧情，特效也差了很多，煽情太刻意了，反倒不美。最后的炸桥结尾太过魔幻，还不如使用更真实一些的剧情也许更好一点。让大家知道战争的残酷与生命的脆弱，了解先辈们的艰辛奉献，培养爱国情操都没问题，拍得魔幻了，反而会让年轻人以为只是电影而已。总体三星，为了钢七连，多给一星。
●钢七连。
特别好，就是我特别特别想你
和她一起看的第六十八部电影。时隔两年后一起走进老家电影院，电影承袭上一部的品质，并且更能体现徐克的风格，唯一遗憾的是在电影开始小吴没能在娃娃机里抓到一个娃娃。
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