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.。Marty是一个爱喝酒的电影编剧，他的好友Billy和Hans靠偷狗，然后把狗还给失主来赚钱。Marty近期在写一个叫《七个神经病》的剧本，却没有什么灵感，于是Billy给他提供了一些素材。有一个神经病是一个杀手，每次杀完人都会扔下一张J扑克牌，有一个越南的复仇者，有一个自刎的贵格教徒。 Billy偷了黑帮老大Charlie的爱犬。Charlie到处寻找，还杀害了Hans住院的妻子。Billy知道这件事后，愤怒地将他的情人杀害，而她也是Charlie的情人，随后Billy扔下了一张扑克牌。原来Billy就是那个神经病杀手。他和Marty、Hans来到野外继续写剧本，他也让Charlie单枪匹马前来决斗。。本片根据老舍先生的同名话剧改编。解放前，北京龙须沟是条臭水沟，沟旁住满了各式各样卖力气、耍手艺的下层劳动人民。这些居民经常遭受国民党、恶霸、流氓的迫害和恶劣环境的威胁，生活凄惨。 为人耿直正派的老艺人程宝庆，原在一家茶馆里唱单弦，因拒绝到恶霸黑旋风家唱堂会，被其爪牙打伤，逃到龙须沟居住，靠妻子程娘子摆烟摊过日子。程宝庆满怀忧愤，但人们不理解他，都叫他疯子。只有程娘子忍辱负重，希望丈夫能等到再出头的日子。小恶霸冯狗子抢了程娘子的烟。同院的三轮车工人丁四也受到恶霸欺凌。正直的泥瓦匠赵老头为他们打抱不平，无济于事。不久，丁四的女儿小妞子掉进了脏臭的龙须沟，被淹死了。解放后，龙须沟同北京一起获得了新生。人民政府法办了恶霸流氓黑旋风与冯狗子，治理了龙须沟，龙须沟沿岸人民过上了幸福的生活。。
