元若蓝
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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.
胡越山
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:阳湖市淹城区第二中学许若兰老师深受同学们的尊重和爱戴。在二中教学的空闲时间，许若兰经常来到二中附近的一处进城务工人员聚居区，给农民工的孩子补习文化。看着三十几个孩子没有学上，许若兰毅然向学校递交了辞职报告，准备到进城务工人员聚居区给孩子们办学校。许若兰是二中教研组主力，也是区教委重点培养的尖子。许若兰的选择遭到男朋友李欣和学校校长的极力反对，却受到三十几个农民工子弟和他们的家长的热烈欢迎。农民工们很快租下一处废弃的厂房，简单粉刷装修，就算是三十几个孩子们的学校。农民工子弟学校开学那天，许若兰举行了学校第一次升旗仪式，家长和孩子们看着冉冉升起的国旗激动得热泪盈眶。 同一片蓝天照片针对农民工子弟的特殊情况，不仅注意教学方法、帮助孩子们共同提高学习成绩，还十分注重孩子们的品质教育，引导和教育大家要学会关心他人自立自强。在三十几个农民工子弟当中，王小兵的家庭因为父亲早逝、母亲身体不好而相对困难，但王小兵特别懂事，也特别勤奋。正是因为王小兵的乐于助人，许若兰还从二中给他们请来学习尖子段娜，让段娜和农民工子弟学校的同学帮扶结队。农民工子弟上学的问题暂时解决，王小兵的家庭困难也得到多方的帮助，许若兰为农民工子弟学校报到区里的审批手续却迟迟批不下来。在许若兰辛辛苦苦创办的农民工子弟学校被区有关部门查封、区教育局陈局长因支持许若兰办学而遭致停职后，许若兰看着挡在学校门外的孩子们，毅然决然地找到区委书记。许若兰反映的农民工子弟受教育的问题引起市委王书记的高度重视。在市委王书记的关注下，农民工子弟学校办学手续通过审批。然而，三十几个孩子重新走进教室没几天，厂房的产权单位将厂房变卖，新的开发方坚持强行拆迁。在农民工和拆迁方产生对峙的时候，市委王书记及时赶到，承诺将向市人大提议，将“农民工”写进阳湖市的历史，给农民工以新市民待遇。三年之后，阳湖市第一所新市民子弟学校建成。开学典礼上，农民工子弟自己创作的歌曲《同一片蓝天》，唱出了进城农民工和他们的孩子们的心声。
陈松伶
