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法兰基（杰克•麦克艾尔 饰）随母亲莉兹（艾米莉•莫迪默 饰）与外婆搬到了苏格兰。九岁的他是个失聪儿童，聪明懂事，对父亲充满期待。他经常给船员父亲写信，还挂着父亲所在的船的航海图。可是他不知道，一切都是母亲的善意的谎言，虚构了父亲的一切，事实上他们到处搬家就是想要摆脱父亲残酷的家庭暴力。而每一封“父亲的回信”都是莉兹所写的，为了就是不让儿子难过。 法兰基得知父亲的船即将靠岸了，想见父亲一面。莉兹没想到真的有这样的一艘船存在又不忍心告诉儿子所有真相，只好在朋友的帮助下找了一名陌生男子（杰拉德•巴特勒 饰）假扮父亲，可爱的法兰基很讨他的喜欢。 他们三人相处愉快，正当“丈夫”要离开，莉兹告诉了他法兰基的失聪是因为真正丈夫的施暴。而他们之间也似乎有着若有似无的感情。 莉兹拒绝了即将逝世的丈夫戴维要见儿子的要求，不久她便告诉法兰基，父亲已经逝世了。莉兹又取得了儿子的信，原来聪明的法兰基已洞悉一切……。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.。
