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.
用一场泯灭人性的决斗来决定谁更有资格做人活下去。虽然复制体更了解人性，也最后利用了人性，但是却更没有人性，顶替了别人的生活，也终究沦为了一个彻头彻尾机器人般的替代品。有些人生，还是从头体验的好。
又商业 又文艺 两边表现都不太够 看着玩可以
鼠人那个故事的背景渲染得非常好（完成度也不错，基本可以抽离出来拍一部电影了）。几个故事里，机器人体实验还算可以，失踪的女孩，邪恶博士，救赎……
我能理解男朋友 但理解不了母亲的做法 畸形的社会规则 题材不错
切入点不同。《天鹅挽歌》是不舍当下 ，本片则是困在当下。但无论是表现手法/文本高度/人物动机/叙事转折/演员演技等各个方面吧，本片都明显不如前者。算是个低配姊妹篇吧~
变成一个半小时短片估计效果会更好。有点《黑镜》的感觉。
我还挺喜欢这个电影的。当一个更讨喜的克隆人在自己的生活中取代了自己原本的地位，自己、家人、爱人，和这个克隆人会做何抉择。
可以给6.5，打分制不科学（
感觉回来的应该还是原身吧，看她对于母亲跟男友的话的反应，应该是讽刺他们知道克隆体要毒杀她的内情，都希望她死，而她只能继续假装克隆体活着，可悲
平静的表面下波涛汹涌，荒谬的情节令人细思极恐，这两年有几部不错的关于克隆的伦理悖论困境的片子，大多表现都还不错，挺好玩的
Double Lives Matter! 和《天鹅挽歌》的设定类似，但这部采用了让人难以置信“同步”设定，更让人难以置信的是，复制体具有“通过决斗来争取自己取代本体”的权利（还他妈写进了宪法）……结尾不出所料，贼始终是贼，何况她要偷的是从来不属于她的自然人主体性。
满屏的丧气。剥离掉很多现实社会的问题之后的一次实验，结果是人心依旧叵测，无论谁家的柴米油盐，都充满酸甜苦辣。
一堆人在那瞎分析，对电影过度解读。很明显克隆活了下来。本体的转变过于生硬，导演故意制造悬念，实则不和逻辑
白瞎了小粉了
设定挺有创意，可惜的是剧情完成度不足，故事逻辑也不严谨，这开放式结局我个人是觉得本体和复制体都活了
当克隆人取代了本体的一切，自己就成了被嫌弃松子的一生，是我杀了我……
挺喜欢这种设定的 能Get到表达的意思但还是纠结最后谁死了…
本体为了活下去，虽然付出很多努力，却唯独少了脑子，然后就被有心机的复制体在决斗场外搞死了，绝对是含恨而死。
首先我承认我脏了，多次提到性我以为和教练的互惠协议也会是性结果却是紧凑剧情里难得的幽默桥段，又多了一重反转。现代法律尊重个体赋予新身份是更合理的方式，片里选择了复古的决斗，用这种荒谬的生存决斗为前提展开故事，最后是本体还是复制体怎么说都有可佐证的细节，但由于在车内哭泣，哪种结局都充满了绝望感
看过的关于克隆人题材的电影中最烂的一部，设定、剧情、角色、对白、演员演技都烂的不忍直视，克隆人用不到了竟然要跟本体来决斗的法律、家人相处几天就把女主抛弃了、女主全程面瘫演技、演员们就与其说演戏不如说是在念小学生写的对白，就这水平能过6分？？
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