视频简介
The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。二十年前因奸杀少女依芸入狱，重犯王远阳在狱中历经凌辱，变成性格怪异、人见人惧的哑巴杀手。刚刚出狱的他，又卷入了一场惨绝人寰的命案之中：中英混血指挥家徐翰林被发现抛尸海边荒野，容貌尽毁遍体鳞伤，而徐翰林正是少女依芸的父亲。外号怒汉的警探林正忠一心查出真相，出狱后一直跟踪徐翰林幼女徐雪的王远阳，自然成为最大的嫌疑人，一场全港大追捕全面展开，然而，真相才刚刚开始被揭开……。
