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.。男主人公乔·赛佛（蒂姆·艾伦 Tim Allen饰）是个中规中矩的中年男人，他像所有失败的小人物一样，做梦都想成为一名“大人物”。他一直工作在明尼苏达州的一家制药公司，感叹怀才不遇，得不到应得的赏识。乔的老板本来许诺给他晋升的机会，最后却食言了。而且他的个人生活更是一团糟，他跟妻子凯丽（凯莉·林奇 Kelly Lynch饰）最后还是以离婚收场。本来这不好不坏的工作和浑浑噩噩的生活，如一汪死水般平静。直到他的同事马克（帕特里克·沃伯顿 Patrick Warburton饰）霸占了他心爱的私人泊车位，还在他早熟的女儿面前羞辱乔时，他的怒火终于被点燃了。忍无可忍的乔，决心改头换面，跟马克“决一死战”。 乔是否能像所有人证明：他现在是个“大人物”？而这样的改变，到底好坏与否呢？。事物在寂静的癫狂中支离破碎。三条生命和一块空白里程碑。无处可去。一切都被困在由阳具和面具构成的错综复杂的世界里。。
