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泰德（杰伊·哈灵顿 Jay Harrington 饰）就职于一家大型企业的研发部门，前途可谓是一片大好，尽管这家企业所研发的产品千奇百怪，有些甚至触及了道德的底线，但是为了能让他独自抚养的七岁女儿罗丝（伊莎贝拉·阿塞尔斯 Isabella Acres 饰）过上更好的生活，泰德对此只能睁一只眼闭一只眼。 同样身为研发部的一员，琳达（安德利娅·安德斯 Andrea Anders 饰）和泰德采取的对策则截然相反，个性叛逆又心怀不满的她常常做一些恶作剧，随着时间的推移，她引起了泰德的注意。泰德虽然对特立独行的琳达怀有好感，但曾经吃过办公室恋情苦头的他决定按兵不动，因为泰德曾经的情人正是他那虎视眈眈的老板维罗妮卡（波蒂亚·德罗西 Portia de Rossi 饰）。。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.。