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.。A story set among delivery riders.。典型都市女性Diana有着骄人的事业成绩，也积极经营着自己的爱情。可是香港经济不景气，她与同公司的小职员韦大汉都出现在了裁员的名单上。韦大汉早年妻子因为好赌离家出走，丢下了女儿千华及小儿子万华需要供养。他向儿女隐瞒自己已经被解雇的事实，可是Diana的出现让千华及弟弟都知道了爸爸的真实情况。原来Diana的出现是想跟他们参加一个家庭制的游戏，只有胜出游戏，电视台便会原价收购他们的负资产业。Diana是一个自私冷酷的人，在游戏的过程中，被大汉付出在儿女身上的感情而改变了她。千华也在游戏中与导演产生了感情。游戏最终由他们胜出，可是千华亲生母亲的出现使局面彻底改变了……。
