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.
故事发生在遥远的未来世界中,在彼时的社会里,一群被称为“Equals”的种族成为了其中的主要生产力。相较于普通人类,Equals更加的完美,他们有美丽的外貌,高尚的道德感,稳定的情绪,聪慧的头脑,但与此同时,过于的完美让Equals失去了人类的感情。被称为SOS的疾病是这个社会里存在的最大不稳定因素,患上了SOS的人会变得敏感悲伤,抑郁冲动,居民们一旦被发现患上SOS症,就会被政府流放,永远无法再回归社会。 西拉斯(尼古拉斯·霍尔特 Nicholas Hoult 饰)就是一名SOS症患者,某日,他邂逅了名为尼雅(克里斯汀·斯图尔特 Kristen Stewart 饰)的女孩,尼雅虽然看似冷漠无情,但实际上,她也患有SOS症,一切只不过是她的伪装而已。
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron’s execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor’s descendants.
这座城市出现了一名绰号“Blitz”的连环杀人魔,他神出鬼没地杀害多名警官,而他的凶器只是一把锤子。没人知道他的踪迹,而他也因作案手法老练而使警方难以破案。嚣张的他更在每次作案前后都会和某报社负责犯罪版块的编辑邓洛浦(大卫·莫瑞瑟 David Morrissey 饰)报告杀人的细节,从而追求社会的关注。邓洛浦为了自己出名而没有通知警方,每次都能让警方试图封锁消息的计划破灭,也因此被警方注意。
个性容易冲动火爆的警察布兰特(杰森·斯坦森 Jason Statham 饰)因正义感太强殴打嫌疑犯,屡次遭投诉、上报纸,上司颇为恼火。这一次,布兰特奉命追查这名凶手,面对凶残狂妄凶手的放肆挑衅,他决定要靠自己的双手,为这个社会伸张正义......