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.
看得快睡着，只记得住Jaime最后那两缕蓝发。
烧女后比较喜欢的一部，宗教背景下的禁忌之恋（爱的力量很强大，让她们彼此爱上；爱的力量又不够强大，让她们在爱里分离），谁不爱青春期的悸动啊…厕所的背后抱，夜晚的背后抱，不放我走吗，浴缸洗礼，车内潮湿的吻…在Jamie身上看到自己的影子，但多年过去，生活截然不同的两个人，彼此仍记挂彼此的爱情难寻。
很喜欢Jaime!!! 配乐很好 对eternal love paradise的描述和镜头令我很向往 类似于我们现在不在一起但有一个地方爱会让我们会在一起forever 可惜分开了 主要J也有了新伴侣 其他没太大感触 感觉分有点高了7.5左右差不多 以后把中翻字幕补上 同题材违命才7.0
看电影的时候，一直想着，电影的配乐与哪部电影有些相似，终于找到，是《薇塔与弗吉尼亚》里面的《Printing Orlando》。
这份爱小心懵懂又美好，但又败给现实，支离破碎。彼此相爱却没有结果，如果在国外如此，又怎能奢望所处社会有花开的一天
艹啊没想到《违命》前传这个形容这么贴切，结尾直接无缝衔接
3.5星 车后座牵手、厕所背后抱、浴缸的洗礼 性张力MAX “不打算放我走吗”（好喜欢杰米的颜 气质好像我ex 永远爱这类气质的女生
什么宗教？太邪了。学生时候的小行为真的好让人悸动
鉴于marike爸爸说“受洗是你会做的最大承诺”，我想导演将浴缸受洗拍成婚礼现场之后全剧终会比现在好得多....
信仰可以，但这浓浓的邪教氛围是咋回事
！！！我难以言表我的喜欢！！好久没看到这么真情实感又细节满满的姬片了！两个女主之间的暧昧感真的绝，尤其是最后要分离那段，两个女生的诠释都好棒啊😭还有就是好心疼Marike啊😭，特别是aunt和Jaime在车上那段话，我真的哭死，Marike is confused😩
花钱买来看的当然四分 两女主颜值很高 刻板的青少年拉拉懵懂的感情 一下子让人回到少年时代（那时候我也并没有弯）
很想说女同性恋能不能不要再这么矜持了 还是忍不住在手指试探着靠近的瞬间屏住呼吸
#五个扑水的少年 🌊 北京首映
电影院那段性张力也太足了🥵🥵🥵🥵拉到隔间里还在克制让她转身只是抱着
所以结局就是 婚姻--女孩自由的坟墓
花钱买来看的当然四分 两女主颜值很高 刻板的青少年拉拉懵懂的感情 一下子让人回到少年时代（那时候我也并没有弯）
看不太懂，可能是因为宗教背景吧，故事展开也挺奇怪的…黑人小哥可爱多了…唯一就是风景和主角都挺好看的吧…不知道为啥评分这么高
the bathtub scene is the best 太像火吻了
果然是青春版《违命》，什么时候看宗教题材不把我看得心绞痛啊。虽然设置在90年代我能理解be得有理，但我真的受不住。两位年轻女演员性张力十足，克制隐忍的爱，让耶和华的美丽新世界见鬼去不行吗？现在就跟她走啊！！！ 好，睡了一觉醒来再想想，这个结局似乎也可以解释为he，漏掉了一个潜在的人物，逃走的母亲。不再信奉真理的母亲在家里成了禁忌的存在，在结尾的时候，M应该明白了母亲为何逃离，因为世界上存在着想要违背所谓真理也想要抓住的存在，所以她才不愿放J走吧。
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