烈火情人

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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.。玛莉亚姆与她的弟弟以及母亲法里哈共同居住在巴基斯坦卡拉奇的一间狭小公寓里。当玛莉亚姆的外公离世后，外公的弟弟试图迫使她们将公寓转让给他。因为缺少健全的对女性财产权的保护机制，这在巴基斯坦相当常见。玛莉亚姆的母亲受到丧父之痛和孤独的双重打击，无法理智地做出判断。玛莉亚姆对母亲的昏庸之举忿忿不平。此时，她与同学暗生情愫，并从中得到慰藉。然而，当他们的关系出现意想不到的变化时，玛莉亚姆开始深陷噩梦之中。与此同时，她的母亲被困于强势的叔叔和复杂的法律体系之间，完全忽视了女儿日渐糟糕的精神状态。玛莉亚姆的噩梦逐渐与现实交错。母女必须团结一致，才能最终战胜那些即要吞噬她们的亦真亦假的力量。。