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品特再也没有想到的是，平凡的自己有朝一日竟然会遭到黑白两道的追杀，而整件事的始作俑者，大概就是之前在机场邂逅的神秘女子。现在他所知道的的是，自己似乎被别人误认成为了一个叫做“约翰卡特”的男子，而这名男子才是那群凶徒想要用枪指着其脑袋的家伙。在一次又一次的逃亡中，神秘女子再次出现，她告诉品特自己的名字叫做凯瑟琳，并且希望品特能够利用约翰卡特的身份帮助他们做事。迫于情势，品特答应了凯瑟琳的要求，而在一次次惊险的动作场面后，品特明白，只有找到真正的约翰卡特，自己才有可能回归到原来的生活轨迹中去。。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.。