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.。故事发生在1994年的纽约，和大多数叛逆青年一样，卢克（乔希·佩克 Josh Peck 饰）和家人之间的关系跌落到了冰点，终日无所事事的他整日在街头徘徊，靠着贩卖大麻赚点零花钱。和大多数心理医生一样，斯奎尔斯（本·金斯利 Ben Kingsley 饰）自己也有一大堆剪不断理还乱的麻烦事，他和卢克之间唯一的枢纽就是大麻——斯奎尔为卢克提供心理诊疗，而卢克则用大麻来回报他。同是江湖沦落人，随着时间的推移，卢克和斯奎尔斯之间产生了一种奇妙的信任和友谊。 卢克一直暗恋着同班同学斯蒂芬妮（奥莉薇·瑟尔比 Olivia Thirlby 饰），同时，外表开朗乐观的斯蒂芬妮也对卢克情有独钟。令卢克没有想到的是，斯蒂芬妮那没有血缘关系的父亲不是别人，正是他的“老主顾”斯奎尔斯，一段有笑有泪的混乱关系就此展开。。
