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.。在蒙特利尔以外的一个孤岛上，有一个叫Starliner的公寓联合体，这是一栋极其现代化和理想的住所，但是在这个天堂一般的楼里，一个叫荷比斯的中年科学家正在用极其残暴的手段把一个年轻的女学生抽打得失去知觉，随后对这个学生开肠破肚，用浓盐酸摧毁内脏，随后自杀。通过调查研究，一个医生发现，原来荷比斯正在致力于研究一种壮阳似的寄生虫，他正是利用那个女孩的内脏来培育这种寄生虫，但是他发现他的研究出现问题后，他决定杀死女孩和自己，只是荷比斯没有发现一点，那就是这个女孩其实是个非常复杂、混乱的传染源，接下来，楼里的人一个接一个被这种外貌酷似女性生殖器的寄生虫给传染上，变成噬血的行尸走肉，继而疯狂的**，不久，他们步出Starliner，到外边去寻找新的猎物……。
