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律师比利（罗伯特·约翰·伯克 Robert John Burke 饰）是一个体型硕大的胖子，他一直都在减肥，但从来没有成功。作为一名颠倒黑白的律师，他和检察官及法官的暗地勾结让他获得了不小的成功。一次交通意外中，比利撞死了一个吉普赛老妇人。在法庭上，借由职务之便，比利通过非法的渠道获得了无罪判决，对受害者亲人的愤怒和悲痛视若无睹。从此之后，好运似乎降临在了比利的身上，一直以来令他困扰的体重居然开始下降，同时，他还可以毫无顾忌的敞开肚子品尝人间美食。事态的发展逐渐超出了可控制的范围，短短几天之内，比利已变成一个骨瘦嶙峋的苍老男子，并且他的体重仍然在持续的下降，而参与不公正审判的同僚们也都出现了不同的病变，这令他明白，吉普赛人的诅咒并非空穴来风，而为了求生，他必须找到下诅咒的那个吉普赛人，并且请求他的原谅。。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.。