洪雨雷

Abel去调查当地一间“高档”学校里一个男孩的死亡事件, 他尸体在河上被发现。学校高层恐惧会引起丑闻，坚持这只是一宗普通的自杀案。但Abel从男孩的女友处得知,他常常被人家欺负, Abel 怀疑学生入会仪式有蹊跷，于是他秘密地请求一位有同情心的老师Betsy来帮忙。可Abel的上司警告他别再调查下去, 因为学校赞助了警察慈善资金不少款项。Abel不肯就此罢手, 不仅因为几年前他的兄弟也自杀了, 而且男孩的鬼魂好像给他们留下了线索，似乎在解释当晚到底发生了什么事情。。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.。