小说步步惊心续集

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.。雅各布（安德雷昂·祖利维 Adrien Jolivet 饰）和弟弟弗拉基米尔（格雷戈瓦·勒普兰斯-林盖 Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet 饰）过着相依为命的生活，命运对善良的两人并不公平，尽管经历了许多不堪回首的往事，尽管除了一匹高大的骏马外两人一无所有，但兄弟两还是为了能够活下去而做着不懈的奋斗。 不幸的是，上帝夺走了雅各布最后的希望——一个名叫罗曼（格莱戈尔·科林 Gregoire Colin 饰）的男人偷走了他们仅有的马并且杀死了弗拉基米尔。巧合的是，罗曼与雅各布的境遇十分相似，年长的他亦有一个身患残疾的弟弟艾利亚斯（François-René Dupont 饰）需要照顾。同样是被命运抛弃的人们，为了生存和尊严，雅各布和罗曼被迫拔刀相向，他们都知道，只有当一方夺取另一方的生命之时，仇恨才会终结。。