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.
余皑磊那段我看得最high，掐灭火苗、重述故事、不让传播，这部分跟电影本身的主题是更搭的（而不是一个凄美的东野圭吾式的罪案故事）。可惜只有一小部分。
十个项目九个凉，商业投资很正常～套用剧本杀形式构建不断反转层次丰富的文本，看得出是万合天宜一堆编剧集思广益堆砌的产物，然而起承转合不太高明，含沙射影犹如隔靴搔痒，有时候作品的表达欲太强给人的观感只会过犹不及。
三星半。国产喜剧难得一部性别意识不糟糕的电影，没有猥琐的性别梗，也没有梦回青春追校花，笑点都很灵巧自然。本煜令人惊艳，终于脱下了喜剧的皮，演得彪悍又厚重，深情款款，演出了一种八十年代香港警匪片的义薄云天。缺点是群戏不太协调，表演浓度过高，从一开始情绪就拉得太满，令人疲劳。还是很出众，值得欣赏。
国产悬疑电影一直以来就只学会了故弄玄虚那一套，唬唬新观众要要票房还成，口碑自然是好不了。悬疑故事要上荧幕，反转诡计都不是重点，叙事的结构才是最为主要的。承认自己什么材料揽什么活，即使反转层数再简单，能让观众在那刹那明明白白地享受到乐趣，才是悬疑电影该做到的事情，而不是像影片开头那样，电影结束了问一句旁边的人“你看懂了吗?”。这部电影做的最有眼光的事情就是完全不去遮掩其戏剧性，大大方方地把它展现开来，利用起来。观众都知道他坐在电影院座位上看的是电影，你又能自欺欺人地说服自己是在重现现场吗?
3.5的小演员民国剧本杀。有的人好点有的人差点。尹正作为男主实在是比较差。
据说剧本原型是“红黄蓝”事件，刘循子墨是真的厉害，他什么都拍了又什么都没点破。所以剧情角度来说，我感觉这个本子是没有“真相”的，因为片尾的出现，表示最后五分钟的反转甚至只可能是一个超现实的“结局”。而所谓真相，在电影上映一刻，便交给观众自己去评说了。
第一幕咋呼平庸，伏笔细致，第二幕持续精彩，第三幕高能发展且价值拔高。悬念设置和加强做的很好，有利刃出鞘即视感。除了人手一套资料没什么像剧本杀的地方。演员平均70分，不是最好，但也没有太差。海报可能是华语电影最用心的。情节好看，隐喻锋利，感觉2021华语电影终于开始有所创新，我们的商业悬疑片竟然也开始有迷影观众自发探讨真相、复盘细节。很佩服编剧导演，明明是一个大女主复仇故事，生生做成了养父的献身和旧上海老loser电影人的荒诞喜剧励志片，这在项目初期就明确且硬核的抉择堪称勇敢卓越。内涵表达上实现了吐槽娱乐圈和关照女性，看得心头一暖。军阀财阀之战贯通古今，过审奇才。
邓家佳演得很好，虽然戏份不多但她懂得，她懂得身为女人的辛苦和被误解的部分。整体挺好看的。
可能内容可以，但最终看不下去，弃剧。受不了舞台剧形式的室内剧。加上满满的婚纱影楼风、看上去就是一家餐馆的所谓民国上海背景，各种不舒服，看得很烦躁。赴乌机上看。
真的好看呀！果然喜剧的内核就是悲剧啊，有东方快车那味道了，笑死我了
你们整天这是都在看些什么，讨论些什么。。。
摄影很拉胯，明明大量内景却没拍出空间感，频繁且无意义的切换镜头真的很网大，不那么出色的剧本，扁平化的人物
除了个别台词、演技略显浮夸外，整体完成度还算高。起码让我全程看下来并没有想快进之意！哈哈哈哈只要没完全磨掉观众的耐心，电影就算成功了一半。
尺度真的还可以，没想到，这样的国产必须支持
更像事一部风声要素较多的舞台剧，导演也太会选角了，专挑二三线演技派，张弛有度的表演给电影加分不少。
剧本杀之摄影机不要停，对剧情的反转感到厌烦。
你知道了你敢拍吗？拍了能批准公映嘛？“可他妈老子也是一个有良心的艺术家！”最终剧中的制作团队被“不可抗力”团灭，“潜规则”超级强大的哈。
但第二重反转“骗过了所有人”那里我喜欢，不仅符合此人做事逻辑，而且给人一种忠贞不渝的骑士感。全片最民国的时刻应该是上司托孤（我竟然在那里鼻子酸了）就是很喜欢这些老套的并且不再在现代商业社会里上演的恭宽信敏慧啦（封建。夜莺的形象神奇的没有让我觉得纯粹是个工具，虽然邓家佳那场“我们女人为了唱歌付出代价”的戏说教味太浓。
三点五吧，立意不错，反转不错，但是节奏有点怪，不够丝滑。没想到最后能看到赵叔叔有点惊喜。
3.5，剧本杀电影元年。继《不速来客》后，又一部用剧本杀来宣传的电影，因为是电影的剧本会的形式才显得像剧本杀，其实写作和人物线，并没有那么像“剧本杀”。恶搞了一些电影，讽刺了行业，拥有反转。要是真的有个片尾彩蛋就好了。
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