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.
没想到这几个人物的演出就完成了这样一部有内容的好电影，看的过程中就有想流泪的感觉，看到影片最后两行热泪也跟着流下来，很完美的收尾。
感觉疫情开始以后，就再没有看过这么好的电影了。
通过传输记忆，重新回忆一路走来的种种，猛然惊醒仿佛瞬移一般。看着自己代替自己与家人交流，越是熟练越是心疼，只有小狗发现了掌中痣的秘密。最后一次取下孩子的姓名，如爱人般交接象征身份的戒指，重新肩负使命完成最后的陪伴。
首先他是苹果家的，所以整部电影就像是苹果广告一样的质感，清晰的画面，近未来的生活，多元的人种。内里是一个逐渐告别，逐渐接受被替代的故事，最后男主拿着苹果汁当啤酒，和他儿子磕毛豆的一刻，感人至深
最佳风景和室内装修片。看完4K HDR真的很多帧都可以做壁纸。
“我现在是在告诉你，我不想再沉默了。我们开始沟通，我们开始解决问题。”听完卡隆眼睛紧闭，对于即将到来的死亡，他无能为力。“我没事”“我没事”，人总能在崩溃，甚至临死边缘，说我没事。
这是我看过的所有关于克隆人题材电影里最具人情味的一部，没有之一。但是我依然对克隆人的事情持反对态度，和电影无关，纯伦理。电影的软科幻很“黑镜”，题材也是，全片节奏很稳，看起来很舒服，可惜是在讨论一个悲伤的话题。如果是我，死亡不算什么，让家人看着我死亡，何尝不是双方的解脱。以上。
像her一样寂寞 疏离 但也发着微微的光
所以可以注定爱一个人吗，可以被安排爱一个人吗，克隆人是自己还是他自己？
磨磨唧唧，这么一陈年老点子复套，无心意也就罢了，还既不文艺也不科幻。
是为了给主演预留奥斯卡moment？短片的容量硬是水到两个小时，不过还是支持阿里三封
男主真勇士，同作为雄性生物自愧不如。如果是我，我特么好容易把你搞到手，有了事业有了娃，一起经历了酸甜苦辣，现在却要让一个和我一模一样的臭老头来坐享其成？想都别想，我要死也要死在女人的怀里，葬礼上都给我使劲哭！
小成本制作的精彩电影。
马克思说，人的本质是社会关系的总和。
是一个值得探讨的科幻点子没错，可是很多戏剧冲突源自不合理的剧情安排，这么一想就略出戏，影片渲染的情绪显得略矫情……另外感觉是不是有一批小时候喜欢看王家卫片子的老美长大当上导演了…
781 竟然没有玩常规的“老婆也是复制人”或“Cameron本身也是复制人套路”。 奥卡菲娜的角色，明显比《尚气》那个有意思多了。
——2022.4.1 愚人节
我，潜意识的我，克隆人，克隆人-我同步，克隆人的道德焦虑，克隆人忘却克隆身份，克隆人变成我，我（肉身）消亡，我的情感以克隆的肉身为载体存在，克隆人开始崭新的我。这样的伦理放在十年前或者二十年前几乎是不可能成立的。然而此时此刻，却像是对无常世界最后的缴械，便是放下伦理道德，因为除了眼前的温情，我们已无更好选择。
对结尾比较失望，我还以为有什么反转，结果就是想单纯的引起思考？问题是片中思考太肤浅，不够深入，披着科幻的剧情片，然而探讨却是隔靴搔痒。
每个人类最终都会遭遇癌症，且癌细胞也是不断变异。所以即使在拥有完美克隆人的技术实现语境下，依然会无法攻克癌症。当男主os“truelove soulmate”才会想生小孩的时候我就已经共情要哭哭了，加上亲人离世的悲痛感。但理性思考，每个人类最终为了陪伴家人都替换为克隆人后，整个社会全是克隆人的时代……
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