视频简介
泰德是一个摄影记者，在一次骇人的探险旅行中，他被一只半人半兽的动物咬伤，女友则不幸死亡。为了休养身心的伤痛，泰德到姐姐珍娜的家暂住，同时陪陪他疼爱的外甥布莱特。在泰德停留的日子里，发生接二连三的恐怖命案，珍娜并未将这些事与弟弟种种异常举动联想在一起，但已引起他们家的灵犬“雷神”（Thor）的警戒，深怕泰德会伤害珍娜和布莱特。不幸的是泰德的情况越来越严重，他的意志力已经无法控制，三番两次想加害珍娜母子，幸好都被忠心的“雷神”阻止，到底他们的命运会如何？。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.。
