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.
架空在一个泰国城市，讽刺当局。论讽刺政府官员，还是韩国最牛逼。可以一看，肖央现在演戏真的很棒。
7.5分纪实电影。最后半小时的反转很不错。当徐宇植摸着ceo的牌子，看到新闻哭了的时候…感觉他如释重负…
故事是个好故事，演员演技也在线（除了陈雨锶），但个别角色没有塑造好（比如李安琪和当堪）。立意很高，但一方面技法欠缺火候，另一方面受限于审查，最后只能靠煽情来弥补挖潜的不足（尤其是把“大众”拍的低幼且撕裂）显得有些遗憾。
看完这狗屁不通、处处槽点的电影，可以说陈思诚是华语电影四害之首了。
同样是12月17号上，北美看蜘蛛侠3，中国人看误杀2。我只想说，陈思诚牛逼。
有一些套路和煽情，但是反转好评。感觉结局略有仓促。
这跟误杀 完全没有关系 甚至正片跟误杀两个字也没有关系....泰国成了中国电影的法外之地...这也是审查的规避的很高境界啊...
-普通人干不多资本，普通人干不多资本，需要恒久的坚持！
【误杀2@无聊】每个人都有心声，每个人都在呐喊，每个人都在愤怒。去看这部电影，就好像十几个人在你耳边吼着说教一样。我也不是垃圾桶啊，什么台词写尴尬了，写糟了都能丢给我。俺只是一个普通观众，一个试图在电影院获得安乐的灵魂。
当年出这个新闻的时候替患者们悲伤。这个年代无良的人无法无天，战争。。药害。。悲剧在无数的角落天天上演。个人的物质私欲无限膨胀不断蛊惑
对Sakura敢于挑战又要动脑又要走心的剧本表示佩服，太容易费力不讨好了，不过编剧吧，干什么是讨好的？反正都是要被骂的，早就有这种觉悟了。
开头就猜到结尾，不过还是要赞赏拍出来的勇气！
电影总是美好的，有善良的医生、警察以及愿意追求真相的新闻工作者…可是啊，现实呢？现实荒谬的可怕，只是大家习以为常又在庆幸自己不是受害者罢了。很喜欢那句台词“今天的事情发生在林日朗的身上，明天就能发生在千千万万我们的身上。”
打俩星是我最后的仁慈！千万不要去电影院看啊！它不配！
韩国版的黑水事件，没有黑水拍的那么细腻，却也是韩国电影一贯的大胆
一边看 一边内心大喊救命 这种剧本都能拍
从一开始就可以窥见主角是好人，一定有冤屈，一定没有真的杀人，最后也不会杀人，后面一定有反转，这在某种程度上消解了作品的观赏性，前半段会显得温吞。当然影片后半段如约而至的「反转」还是挺好看，节奏也不错，虽然没有惊喜，但也不至于烂尾。小人物老老实实生活，有冤屈了也没地方说理，只能依靠网络、媒体帮忙，这点真是熟悉的味道。
因为提前知道了结局，就没有“反转”带来的“惊喜”。说真的挺失望的，骂的都对。不如第一部，也没有被感动。
很简单的故事拍足两小时，主角不停输出观点再加煽情，看着真是累了。
这剧本简直无法让人相信是正常智力发育的灵长类动物写出来的，已经到令人发指的地步，全片没有任何符合现实逻辑的细节和台词，正常人根本看不懂，已经傻到可乐，无力吐槽，不过整个影片动机竟然搞个权势滔天的市长为了救儿子的动机，受害者同情理解，可以说现在那些有钱的编剧导到对底层和国家权力对抗的理解肤浅到了荒谬可悲的地步
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