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里德自杀未遂，两名男子前来造访，请他参加一个时空旅行的实验，看看他能否捕捉过去的某一刻。他跟一只已经被实验过的老鼠一起从一个无人的郊区送到某试验室，穿越时间，但迷失了方向。科学家们正为这个丢失的试验品发愁，关于他从前生活的点点滴滴却不断显现，其中一个似乎暗示他曾杀死他的女友。一切线索都指向他自杀的一瞬。而在现实中，里德的尸体出现在实验室的地下。。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.。