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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.。新世纪某个圣诞节前夕，在美国一座位于沙漠腹地的餐馆内，美丽的克莱尔（阿德琳妮·帕里奇 Adrianne Palicki 饰）和男友吉普（卢卡斯·布莱克 Lucas Black 饰）正全心期待新生命的降临。这一天，一名看似和蔼可亲的老妇人造访餐馆，却说出不详的话语，并引发难以想象的血腥争斗。正在此时，沙漠尽头的天空出现诡异景象，仿佛预示着灾难的到来。 不久，驾驶警车的神秘男子迈克（保罗·贝坦尼 Paul Bettany 饰）来到这群惶恐之人的面前，尾随而来的还有一群形貌邪恶的怪人。原来，随着工业文明的高度发达，人类的精神世界却堕落得无以复加。上帝不满于此，于是决定派出天使大军毁灭人类。而身为天使长的迈克却对此并不认同，他孤军奋战，只为保护人类最后的希望——克莱尔腹中的孩子……。