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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.。J.T.马林经纪公司的核心办公室被员工们称之为“锅炉房”。可不要小看这个地方——在这里一夜能诞生20个百万富翁！正是在这间“锅炉房”里，斗志激昂的年轻的经纪人们通过电话为深深信赖他们的买主兜售股票，帮他们炒股。而他们所得到的报酬是豪华公寓、法拉利和更多连他们自己都想象不到的奢华礼物。在长岛这片平凡无奇的土地上，在无数经纪公司的“锅炉房”中，X一代正以惊人的速度实现着他们的梦想，只是有的时候他们离法律仅仅一步之遥……。