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.。2009年10月15日，科罗拉多州柯林斯堡的一位父亲拨打911报警，声称他自制的飞碟从后院逃走，并带着他六岁的儿子飞上了天空。这则匪夷所思的传闻得到了新闻直升机画面的“佐证”。直升机追上了飞碟，并现场直播了追捕过程。起初只是一场地方性紧急事件，却迅速升级为全国性紧急事件，从国民警卫队到警长，再到国土安全部，每个人都在努力制定安全营救“气球男孩”的方案。 当气球缓缓降落时，人们祈祷着奇迹般的重逢，但他们却发现里面根本没有男孩。这场看似悲剧的事件急转直下，演变成一场闹剧。公众的同情迅速转化为义愤，“气球男孩”也迅速成为美国历史上最臭名昭著、最离奇的新闻事件之一。。当镇上最有名望及最富有家庭之一的一位互惠生拒绝了该家之父的提议时，她发现自己被列入黑名单，并担心自己的生命。。
