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.。没有亲密的性爱镜头没有缠绵的拥抱和亲吻只是一群人在诉说残忍被害的同志少年的故事： 1998年10月6日，被认为是世外桃源的美国小镇Laramie，发生了一宗骇人听闻的惨案。21岁的Matthew Shepard被两名同样年轻的少年活活打死，只因他是同性恋。五名剧团的青年来到小镇，走访了镇上不同阶层的居民，影片以访谈的形式重现了当年的事件，从事件的源起、案发、救治、葬礼、审判到事件的尾声。 这个案子一开始就显出它的不平常，小镇上的居民们无法以“普通的劫案”来自欺欺人。在访谈刚刚开始之时，有人避而不见，也有人避而不谈，他们对访谈怀着质疑和戒慎，一个老妇人（后来我们知道她就是那位女警官的母亲）告诉来访者：他们不想对事件做评论，它与他们没有关系，他们没有参与这个事件，这是小镇居民的普遍态度。是的，他们试图对此表现出一种淡漠，然而这是不可能的，惨案永远地改...。