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.
88%😭😭😭“you love each other,and then you still love each other,but find it hard to express that love to each other,and so then you look at each other,and you do this.”
PS:我突然想到，其实我们小时候还是有很多深刻的思想，长大了只想在刑法里找孔子赚快钱了 哈哈哈哈哈
所有人都怀抱着对地球和人类的好奇来到这颗星球，然后在越来越忙碌的生活中忘记最初的模样。好在，这个世界上还有小孩子来教大人成长，他们教导我们，要真诚，要尊重彼此，要不忘初衷。
三个城市三次较量三种关系，旅行是多么的必要。画面与故事同样纯粹，表演与感情同样真挚。
菲尼克斯先生有一张不快乐的现代都市人的脸。
我们说的话大部分都是Blah, blah, blah
8.1/通过叔叔与侄子的短暂相处来重新审视语言与情感，而电影通过纪录片与记叙片的切换来重审倾听/表述的重要性 - 短信/阅读/电话/对话/采访 - 去了解自己和他人最好的方式。电影通过slow pan & slow zoom & melancholic music & black and white来艺术化的表现可能却徒增了一些不必要的boredom。
就是冲着华金去看的，感觉有必要补齐他的序列。3.5是比较细腻片子，没有过多的事件，大部分感受产生在叔侄之间的对话里，但不是那种很闷的类型，因为对白承载了一定的叙事。小演员表现挺不错的，很自然，剧本本身没有给太多华金表演发挥的空间，算在水准之中。 小孩子不作，也挺麻烦的，尤其是他还有个某种意义上的精神病父亲，所以想扮演他父亲这个角色更麻烦了
i am easy to be found
i like the sound, sounds like from inner.
天真语言的世界人生沉思，混剪轻柔的影像适之
好久没看黑白片了，摄影很棒，穿越过四个风格各异的美国城市，这样的色调也不会喧宾夺主。需要跟影像和时间一起放慢下来去体验这两位主角之间的bonding，孩子对世界的思考，成年人的焦虑。Over the years, you will try to make sense of that happy, sad, full, empty, always-shifting life you're in.
This kid should win an Oscar
这种慢慢慢慢风格放在英文电影上感觉总有点奇怪
一个“假想父亲”带娃的历程，剧情很少，对话很多。如此纯粹，如此温暖，如此赤诚。
中文电影名真的很迷，干脆叫扭计外甥大战新手舅父啦(-ι_- )
It just reminds me again how much I love Mike Miles. Time and space and emotions are real in his films.
Those maternal parts get me so easily
喜欢看和小孩子交流的片，同样是用对白支撑，可比伍迪艾伦的话痨片儿强多了
很舒服又有爱的电影，华金菲尼克斯和小男孩的互动很温暖，故事和节奏不是特别吸引人，但很多台词写的很棒，喜欢里面对小朋友们的采访片段，单拎出来做成纪录片一定会非常有趣…3.5
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