詹雅雯
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: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.
刘钰佳
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:这是一部极为出色的关于人与自然的电影。1902年和1907年,沙俄军官阿尔谢尼耶夫两次率领勘探队到乌苏里地区探险,都巧遇赫哲族老猎手德尔苏·乌扎拉。德尔苏.乌扎拉为勘探队充当向导,并挽救了阿尔谢尼耶夫的生命,与之建立了深厚的情谊。德苏对大自然相当了解与尊重,藉由他的示范 与见解,让人们了解大自然的伟大与残酷,人是可以与大自然和平相处,但当大自然被破坏时,人们将是第一个遭殃。德苏是一个神枪手,但后来在一次打猎时,德苏发现自己的眼睛因为身体衰老而退化,看不清猎物了,十分沮丧。他随阿尔谢尼耶夫到大城市伯力居住。但是,城市文明德苏却无法习惯,城市和他过去赖以生存的地方,那片纯朴的自然大地是完全不同的。猎人离开枪,离开了他所熟悉的环境,仿佛鱼儿离开了水。“城里没法狩猎,不狩猎就没有貂”“我突然想念空气。”他象是被囚禁了一般,闷闷不乐。德苏执意回到山里,回到那片密林。但是,猎人没有好的视力,便是最大的悲剧。猎人不能猎杀,自己便被会猎杀。勇敢的德苏虽然带着阿尔谢尼耶夫送给他的新猎枪,但是他却死了……