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.。Tom Powers（詹姆斯·卡格尼 James Cagney 饰）和他的好友Matt Doyle（Edward Woods 饰）从小就在一起厮混，喜欢做些小偷小摸的事情，为此Tom没少挨他哥哥Mike（Donald Cook 饰）的骂，然而Tom死性不改。Tom和Matt两人还结识了Putty Nose（Murray Kinnell 饰），一个帮派成员。两人长大了一些之后，在Putty Nose的怂恿下，两人和另外一个少年一起去一个商店盗窃，却因Putty Nose的出卖，两人险些被捕，另外一个少年则丧门。两人于是转而投靠Paddy Ryan，那时候美国禁酒令开始实行，两人和Paddy做起私酒生意，混得风生水起，还认识了一个帮派头目"Nails" Nathan。后来一战爆发，Mike参军，临走前试图劝Tom退出帮派，Tom没有听。等到Mike退役回...。Aj开始梦见他父母的死。他决定在哥哥和哥哥家人的陪同下回到他们被杀的地方。但是传说在这些树林里有神秘的东西在游荡。。