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对于年过不惑的安德里亚斯（Trond Fausa Aurvaag斯荣德•福斯•奥瓦格 饰）来说，人生似乎在没有什么值得留恋的了，他选择结束自己的生命。他的灵魂乘坐巴士来到一片平静的土地，这里与人间没有什么区别，而且更加平和安宁。 人生仿佛重头开始，安德里亚斯得到一幢舒适的别墅和一份安逸的工作，生活没有压力，很快与周围的人打成一片，并且结识了美丽的室内设计师安妮•碧特（Petronella Barker 饰）。生活惬意，饮食无忧。 但是没有痛苦的世界却也缺少活着的感觉，安德里亚斯再次想到自杀，却发现死亡如今已成为奢望……。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.。