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.。昔日赛车手梁晖(周游饰)在目睹好友周晓杰(段博文饰)意外死亡后一蹶不振,重新做回货车司机,却在一场车祸中意外发现好友遗物里的秘密,难道他还活着? 实习医生田小心(郭姝彤饰)爱上了从未赢过、总是被打得伤痕累累的拳手小孙(李程彬饰),她想以爱之名救助小孙,却使一切背道而驰,两人的爱情能否逃过被设定的命运? 身患绝症的小小(王柏杰饰)终于找到了可以拯救自己性命的镜像人安先生(颜卓灵饰),但一命换一命的生死抉择下,是两个渴望自由的灵魂,小小会对安先生下手吗? 陪伴、告别、活着,面对命运无情的捉弄,心怀不甘的他们选择逆流而上,追寻自己的明日青春。。