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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.。单行本第9卷限定版同捆DVD。。两个长相极之相似，但性格异端的女孩，巧逢相遇后，发展出一段难忘的童年之交；惟命运安排她们走上迥异的生命道路，其后的重逢竟是一次死亡的接触。 清纯温婉的文婷（李嘉欣）与好友家杰（刘锡明），同在十四乡渡过童年生活。直至某天，来了个貌似文婷而性格刚强的女孩范莲（李嘉欣），他们三人的生命历程即起了变化，而莲的言行举止，更不时流露出潜伏的兽性。 今天，文婷已成为时装界炙手可热的人物，与男友Ken（李子雄）感情稳定。怎料，她无意中发觉Ken与国际伪钞集团来往甚密；两人因而发生争执，婷一气之下把伪钞磁碟资料寄给好友杰。组织恐防事败外泄，派杀手将婷解决，而执行任务的竟是婷儿时同伴莲。 当婷的生命结束一刹那，莲才猛然发觉是与自己相貌一样的婷，一阵悲凉的感觉涌上心头，莲决定查访婷被杀的原因，随后更与久别重逢的杰发生感情，从中了解到婷遭害因由，而自己亦身陷死亡边缘。。