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.。国际刑警戴志成为将偷渡团伙一网打尽，只身混入“天堂鸟旅行团”，该团所有成员目的地只有一个——美国。虽然目的地相同，但毎个成员的出发点千姿百态，记者房可欣深入团伙內部，是想写一篇关于偷渡客的重磅报道，农民高守银则是借机卖掉境外的文物。一干人马随着刀龙，开始了生死未卜的冒险旅途。在大林莽中，人性中最丑恶的一面逐渐显现出来，狡诈、贪婪、谎言无时无刻地笼罩在这群偷渡客身上，偶尔的团结也只为临时利用。理想与现实总是阻隔着高壑的山谷，越往前走希望越渺茫，何爽惊愕地发现，此次旅途不过是拿生命做赌注的游戏罢了......。
