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碧翠丝汉斯多佛是个寡妇，与两个女儿住在康州郊外的平房里。她总是成天读着报纸里的广告栏，对自己的未来充满模糊的希望，口里对政府与社会骂骂咧咧，而她无形中也将自己的疾世愤俗之心传给了她的大女儿鲁思。小女儿玛蒂达因为对家里环境充满失望而将注意力转移到学校的课业学习，因此备受母亲诟病。随着一系列小事件的接连发生，碧翠丝和她的两个女儿也陆续遭遇意想不到的变故……。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.。