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.。当初因为宗教问题，安吉拉（艾米丽·沃森 Emily Watson 饰）和丈夫的婚姻并没有得到亲友的赞许。如今他们已经有好几个孩子，可是在美国生活得并不如意，贫穷折磨再加上不久前的丧子之痛，这家人决定搬回家乡爱尔兰，以祈求在那里获得富裕一点的生活。 事情并没有他们想象的那样顺利，在家乡，他们仍然遭遇着亲友冷眼，开始了艰难为继的新生活。每当丈夫没有勇气干些琐碎活扛起家庭重担时，是安吉拉义无反顾的担负起一切又脏又累又卑微的活儿。命运一次次给这个坚强的母亲以打击。她的一对双胞胎孩子相继去世，丈夫到英国谋生却没能改善困窘的家境，安吉拉从不放弃地寻求救助，并教会儿子弗兰克（乔·布林Joe Breen 饰）生存的尊严，母亲的光辉在弗兰克的一生里都不会褪色。向安于现状的白领青年薛可正（黄宗泽 饰），被陷害导致失业，同时拍拖多年的女友以娜（邓丽欣 饰）提出分手，一夜间顿时成为双失青年。 在儿时朋友栽（洪天明 饰）和刚刚出狱的弟弟可勇（陈伟霆 饰）介绍下，误打误撞进入一金融公司成为黄金经纪。兄弟二人见识了这一行的人生百态和金钱的丑恶；可勇在公司更认识了后来成为太太的姚静悠YoYo（陈嘉桓 饰）；正当薜可正事业刚刚有起色，家中父亲因癌症去世，兄弟二人大受打击。 薜可正拒绝父亲的好友帮助，离开金融行业转为经营卖烤串的小摊档。在创业初期，薜可正认识了刚烈女子安儿（赵荣 饰）。因为看不过眼安儿的儿子思倪（陈学文 饰）给前夫虐待，毅然帮助安儿和前夫争夺思倪的抚养权。 与此同时，可勇与YoYo也闹离婚要争夺孩子抚养权，薜可正从一个双失青年，在现实的生活和家庭纠纷下，逐渐成长为一个真正的男人，而可勇及YoYo也在可正及安儿的影响下，开展了人生的另一阶段……。
