喜剧之王未删减

上士麥科受到富豪哈利的雇用，帶領探險隊潛入有死亡之林之稱的熱帶叢林，企圖尋找西班牙帝國留下的寶物：一只鑲有紅寶石的匕首。他們進入叢林後很快便找到寶藏，本以為可以輕鬆交差，卻發現傳說中滅絕的仰巴里民族竟在樹林深處虎視眈眈，腳下枯枝藤蔓都活了過來，放肆地對這群入侵者展開一場血腥屠殺。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.。