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.。本片根據真實事件改編。在南非的種族隔離政策解除之後，官方成立了「真相與和解委員會」，目的在於調查種族仇恨事件的真相。 擔任委員會主席的大主教戴斯蒙屠圖前往一座戒備森嚴的監獄，審問一名種族歧視的殺人犯皮亞特，在交談的過程中，戴斯蒙漸漸發現皮亞特是一位狡猾的罪犯，他並不要求原諒，反而不斷挑戰戴斯蒙的信仰和寬恕的底線，戴斯蒙也在過程中漸漸懷疑寬恕的可能性…。