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.。该片荣获1995年第52届威尼斯电影节最佳影片金狮奖。越南天才导演陈英雄继《青木瓜之味》后第二部作品，也是梁朝伟在《悲情城市》之后再次受到全世界瞩目的电影。本片对越南底层社会的触目惊心的描述，对黑帮贩毒、杀人放火、变态的性的刻划，再现出一个充溢着堕落与罪恶的越南。一个几乎还是孩子的三轮车夫、一个诗人气质的黑帮分子（梁朝伟饰）、一个为生活所迫不惜卖身的妓女都在与这个城市一起腐烂。两个多小时的片子里，那鲜红的血哗地一声不知从何处淌了出来，也就是在那一刹那，触到了生命的质感。影片以坚硬的力度、残酷的美感、血腥的诗意构筑了一个辛辣而令人晕眩的世界......。