视频简介
来自纽约的前联邦检察官Ted Black如今改头换面获得新生，在洛杉矶代理最有权有势的客户。而他的律师事务所面临危机，为了生存，Ted不得不去接受自己整个职业生涯都鄙视的一个角色。他的周围有一群杰出的人物，而他们对于Ted的和对彼此的忠诚都在受到考验，又情不自禁把工作和私人生活混在了一起。这一切发生的同时，多年前的事件逐渐揭开，让Ted开始远离他所热爱的一切人和事物。。在一个偏僻的海滩度过年度假期期间，本 (Ben) 和维 (Vee) 意外地遇到了一位神秘的背包客，他把他们带入了谎言、欺骗和最终复仇的扭曲网络。。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.。
