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.。从公安大学毕业的刘川之所以被分到天河监狱工作，纯粹源于奶奶对他的人生规划。由于父亲的离世，刘川奉奶奶之命出任父亲所创办的并有着过亿资产的万和公司掌门人。因此，向监狱领导——对他今后人生有着重大影响的队长钟天水提出辞职。离职前，刘川被要求参加了一次代号为“睡眠”的特别行动，也正是因为这次特别行动，使桀骜不逊的刘川陷入了万劫不复的深渊，也为三位深爱着他的女性带来了不同程度的伤害，这与奶奶为他规划的人生目标背道而驰，由一名人民警察变成罪犯，不得不让我们为之惊叹：“命运无常”……。