视频简介
故事发生在公元1788年，乔治三世（奈杰尔·霍桑 Nigel Hawthorne 饰）带领着他的人民和军队逐渐在欧洲大陆站稳了脚跟，整个国家在乔治王的英明领导下安乐富足，生机勃勃。然而某一日，乔治王忽然患上了精神病，疯疯癫癫，胡言乱语，首相彼得（朱利安·沃德姆 Julian Wadham 饰）感到焦急万分，找来各路名医，却都无法治好乔治王，亦查不出患病的原因。 野心勃勃的威尔斯王子（鲁伯特·艾弗雷特 Rupert Everett 饰）想要借此机会将父亲赶下王位，自己继任，为了避免这一情况的发生，彼得不得不想方设法拖延时间，掩盖实情。就在彼得感到再也支撑不下去之时，一位名叫威尔斯（伊安·霍姆 Ian Holm 饰）的医生出现了。。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.。
