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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.。一个来自社会底层的15岁少年，到伦敦一家公共浴室当服务生，他跟比自己大好几岁的女同事合作，设计骗取顾客更多的小费，但在这过程中爱上了女同事，但女方却偏爱英俊的游泳教练。少年试图报复，又难下决心。虽然两人后来有性方面的接触，但最终还是酿成悲剧。 本片主题是爱情太执着，以及年少无知，无法控制局面，反映出未成年人贸然闯入成人世界反构成的威胁。。