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.。叙述世上曾经存在着一种被称为“夜行神龙”的生物，他们有着强壮的身体、锐利的爪子和有力的翅膀。白天，他们只是高塔的石像；但当夜晚来临，他们就会活动起来，成为黑夜的守护者。在西元994年的苏格兰城堡，神龙与人类结盟，共同对抗外敌入侵。但之后却因为人类的阴谋，神龙们惨遭灭族。悲伤的神龙领袖带着残余子民，在魔法师的法术下，选择了保持石像状态，陷入永世的长眠。。
