草原之夜

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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.。故事发生在1961年的美国南部，早熟的女孩莱维伦（达科塔·范宁 Dakota Fanning 饰）和奶奶拉米（派珀·劳瑞 Piper Laurie 饰）相依为命，有时候，莱维伦也会回到父亲的身边，可是这个男人暴躁的脾气的粗鲁的举动总让她遍体鳞伤。通过父亲新女友，莱维伦第一次领略了音乐带给她的奇妙感受，从此走上了追逐音乐的道路。 一次偶然中，莱维伦结识了名叫查尔斯（阿非莫·奥米拉 Afemo Omilami 饰）的黑人园丁，两人十分投缘。和男孩巴迪（科迪·汉福德 Cody Hanford 饰）在农舍躲雨时，两人初尝了禁果，莱维伦因此被父亲一顿暴打。为了筹钱购买猫王演唱会的门票，莱维伦出卖了自己的歌声，没想到换来的却是轻薄和冒犯，生活第一次向莱维伦露出了真正残酷的一面。。