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.。在1992年的洛杉矶，美籍韩裔兄弟艾利和丹尼尔竭力保住父亲的鞋店生意，11岁的美籍非裔女孩甘美娜竟成为他们的忘年好友。当甘美娜的哥哥发现她与那些「东方佬」过从甚密，便密谋阻挠与报复；同时，警察殴打黑人罗德尼金案宣判，四名被控使用过度武力的警察无罪释放后，市内暴力事件升级，挑起族裔间的冲突，暴动无可避免地冲击他们的世界。。
