艾格曼（甘纳尔·布耶恩施特兰德 Gunnar Björnstrand 饰）是一位事业有成的律师，名妓这一天，名妓他带着妻子安妮（厄拉·亚科布松 Ulla Jacobsson 饰）去看一场演出，意外的遇见了自己曾经的恋人黛西瑞（伊娃·达尔贝克 Eva Dahlbeck 饰），艾格曼私下里找到了黛西瑞，想要叙叙旧，可是如今的黛西瑞已经是伯爵马尔科姆（凯尔·库勒 Jarl Kulle 饰）的人了，艾格曼的突然出现并没有令她感到有丝毫的高兴。艾格曼的儿子亨瑞克（比杨·比杰弗文斯塔姆 Björn Bjelfvenstam 饰）是一个发誓要潜心研究神学的男人，但家里的女佣却总是对他抛媚眼，打扰他的钻研，与此同时，他亦发现自己的目光总是若有若无的被年轻的继母安妮所吸引。
回复 :“我们优雅的享用我们的正餐，血腥的屠宰场被精心的隐藏起来。”——爱默生。英语单词Earthling，意指地球上一切居民。它不只是针对人类而言，更包括生存在这个星球上的所有生命。然而愚蠢的人类自认为是最完全的生命体，这他们所处的世界拥有绝对的支配权。在这股极端的物种主义思想影响下，每天有成千上万的生命惨遭杀害。当人们享受通过折磨、残害其他生命所带来的快乐之时，地球变成了令人不忍卒睹的血腥地狱……本片荣获2005年圣地亚哥电影节最佳纪录片、2005年波士顿国际电影节独立制片电影最佳内容奖、2005年艺术行动者电影节最佳纪录片奖。
回复 :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.
回复 :患有不育症的栗原夫妇通过领养制度迎来了他们可爱的儿子栗原朝斗，然而6年的幸福生活顷刻被打乱——一位困窘落魄的年轻女性突然造访，并坚称自己才是孩子的亲生母亲，然而比起孩子，她似乎更想得到金钱上的补偿…日本著名导演河濑直美的新作关照女性、生育、领养等社会议题，以充满戏剧性和冲击力的笔触再次探讨“母亲”这一身份，以多样的叙事风格为观众提供真切又复杂的情感体验。
