故事发生在一间阴暗人稀的剧院之中，精品编剧托马斯（马修·阿马立克 Mathieu Amalric 饰）正在为他所改编的剧本《穿裘皮的维纳斯》寻找合适的女主角。接连面试的几位演员都令托马斯感到失望，精品她们和他脑海里完美的女神形象简直千差万别。面试以一无所获的结局结束了，正当托马斯准备离开之时，一位被淋成了落汤鸡的落魄女郎闯入了剧院。女郎名叫旺达（艾玛纽尔·塞尼耶 Emmanuelle Seigner 饰），巧合的是，她与托马斯剧本中的女主角同名，可是，旺达粗鲁的举止和浅薄的学识让托马斯在内心里暗暗的否定了她。令托马斯感到惊讶的是，旺达不仅拥有全部的剧本，还自备了戏服，在旺达的一再坚持下，托马斯同意了她想要试演的请求，并且亲自与她对戏。就这样，在瓢泼大雨之中，一场关于男人与女人、命令与服从的好戏拉开了帷幕。
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 :影片主要讲述战争给给人民带来的灾难，战争不仅使人民陷入饥饿贫困，还是儿童的心理产生畸形。影片中的主角是个儿童，他把他那卧床不起、患有心脏病的父亲毒死，因为他认为父亲对社会豪无用处。事后，他又因内心不安而自杀。影片表面上把这个儿童产生杀父和自杀的心理归咎于一个老师的教育错误，实际上则是在揭露德国的纳粹主义，认为他们才是这一切罪恶的根源。
回复 :《下落不明》讲述了作家张天泽为创作出符合当下惊悚、悬疑题材的小说，经常加班到深夜，对于妻子的不理解和上司的施压，虽努力创作但是却总将创作中的环节与正是生活相“重叠”，亦真亦假的世界里自己也不能控制“事件的发展”当在病房醒来的那一刻，才发现自己身边的一切都是“不存在”的。。。