乔治·希顿编导的上乘战争片，日韩剧情重点不是一场战役，日韩而是一场布局精妙的心理战。剧情描述美国情报员杰佛逊·匹克在诺曼第登陆战前两天被德军绑架前往德国巴伐利亚。当派克从昏迷中转醒，发现他置身于盟军的一家医院中，而且此时战争已经结束，他还有了一个妻子叫安娜。精神病医生华特·格伯要跟匹克讨论他的失忆症，其实是想从他口中套出诺曼第登陆的军事情报。在关键时刻，匹克发现了这原来是一场骗局，乃跟德军玩猫捉老鼠的斗智游戏，最后更在格伯协助下逃回盟军阵地。悬疑性浓厚的情节始终掌控着观众的好奇心，三位主角詹姆斯·加纳、爱娃·玛丽·森特、罗德·泰勒也都表现出色，可惜压轴的逃亡动作戏拍得比较一般。
回复 :本片讲述了在伊拉克冲突中作战的年轻美国大兵的故事，并将侧重点集中在了多媒体覆盖下的现代战争模式上。由于年轻人冲动的本性和自身的局限，《节选修订》向我们展示了将一群年轻的美国士兵放置在一个精神上野心勃勃的境地的恶果。导演德·帕尔玛在搜集和整理了大量美伊冲突中美国士兵的经历，此番将镜头对准余热未消的伊拉克战争，可谓浑身是胆。剧情围绕美国陆军的一个小分队展开。他们借着自己的强势地位，迫害了一名无辜的伊拉克女孩及她的家人，故事在一次残忍的强奸和谋杀中达到顶峰。影片锋芒毕露，尖锐地揭示出战争带来的无辜死亡和伊拉克人面对战争时的无助。电影让观众思考并开始质疑得到的任何信息和事件。因为，真相经媒体和政治等等的高效率过滤器过滤之后往往已经走样，变成了为一小部分人所用的工具。最后电影抛下一个问题等待着大家思考：一旦我们知道了真相，战争的意义何在？所有的悲剧将向谁倾诉？
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.
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回复 :Two sisters vie for the affections of a man who may or may not be a vampire.
