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.。这是一局环环紧扣的阴谋游戏。小镇上的中学教师萨姆（马特•狄龙 Matt Dillon 饰）这天为学生作完性主题的犯罪演讲后，女学生凯莉就溜进了他的房间，面对青春迷人的凯莉（丹妮丝•理查兹 Denise Richards 饰），萨姆惊得目瞪口呆。这一幕被凯莉的母亲桑德拉（泰莉莎•拉塞尔 Theresa Russell 饰）撞见了，她此前曾和萨姆有过风流的一夜。醋意大发的桑德拉以学校捐助人的身份要求校长将萨姆解职，萨姆因此糊里糊涂丢掉了工作。屋漏偏逢连夜雨，小镇上的一名女学生苏茜（内芙•坎贝尔 Neve Campbell 饰）突然控告萨姆强奸了自己，桑德拉出资聘请了有名的大律师状告萨姆。身无分文的萨姆请不起律师，虽然有贪财的保险人博登在庭上帮他辩护，但面对对方的资深律师，法庭的形势对萨姆十分不利。然而此时，事态有了新的转折！。
