比利（丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰）和怀特（彼得·方达 Peter Fonda 饰）用一次毒品交易的钱骑着他们的机车上路了，手交视频他们的目的地，手交视频是新奥尔良的狂欢节。在路上，他们经过了离群索居的波西米亚人群落，短暂逗留的数天里目睹了他们自由放浪但也贫穷困苦的生活。在德克萨斯州，他们仅因为行为举止诡异就被警察关进了监狱，在那里，他们遇见了律师汉森（杰克·尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰），汉森帮助他们逃离了牢狱之灾，他们怂恿汉森同他们一起上路。抵挡不住内心的骚动，汉森同意了。三人来到一个保守的小镇，在那里受尽了居民的白眼。不受欢迎的三人只得露宿荒野，夜里，当地的居民乔装袭击了他们，汉森被打死。比利和怀特虽然震惊，但这一切都没能阻止他们前进的脚步。到达目的地的两人并没有感到喜悦，有的只是无尽的空虚，沮丧的两人打道回府，但令人意外的是，一个卡车司机和他的双杆猎枪使得他们的行程截然而止。这是影史上最伟大的公路电影，也是为数众多的公路电影的鼻祖。
金建模
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.
孙耀威
回复 :假释犯狄利被迫帮助警方，只因为他生平第一次要见自己的女儿……
纪晓君
回复 :从循环利用到能源生产，这部纪录片探讨了五大洲为营造一个水资源永续利用的未来而提出的创新方案。
