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.。吉田喜重的第二部导演作品，由其本人编剧。在电影开场时，职员木口高志用枪指着自己的头，请求公司停止裁员，而他则愿意以自己的生命为代价，以换取其他工友继续工作的机会。木口的自杀企图由于其友的干预并未成功，而这一事件也成了轰动一时的新闻。因为木口愿意牺牲自己以保全他人的行为，甚至有保险公司愿意雇佣木口来为公司做宣传。幸存下来的木口发现自己成为了媒体的焦点，而成了名人的他的命运也不再掌握在自己手中了.....。
