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善良的道长林正英开设祭坛,供奉那些被母亲堕胎以致肉体毁灭无法投胎的灵婴。祭坛中的灵婴大多天真可爱,但有三个因三番五次被堕胎,戾气十足,邪恶无比。道长命徒儿秋生和文才将婴灵的偶人送至师妹蔗姑处供养,却不慎将尚未修炼完毕的邪恶灵婴放走,附在正英旧情人莲妹的身上。 莲妹嫁给某军阀,军阀为怪病困扰,请来正英师徒。正英检查军阀家墓穴得知,军阀父亲已幻化成僵尸,尸毒为害子嗣。另一方面,正英偶然发现邪婴出现于帅府,知其中有变,遂急忙找来……。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.。

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