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改编自古典小说《聊斋》聂小倩篇，宁采臣携小倩赴京赶考得中进士赴任青华县，临别时老师闻尚书嘱咐他小心，因青华县恰逢妖乱。采臣小倩踏上路程，小倩的金蝉灵体被一众妖物觊觎，野树林中二人遭遇妖精伏击，幸得风雷相救。采臣小倩来到废墟般的青华县，招贤纳才却只招来风雷和何断流两位。某夜青华县衙遭遇妖精偷袭，小倩被掳走。宁采臣带着风雷何断流二人苦寻无果却在街上邂逅乔装说书人的云公子并被引诱。三人来到孤坟岭见到被附身的小倩，风雷何断流救回小倩却发现宁采臣被捉去。无奈之下三人再次寻至妖精洞邸营救采臣。关键时刻燕赤霞出现合力战胜众妖。采臣小倩两人见证了更多繁杂的情感纠葛，对世间情爱有了更深体味，最终平乱重建青华县并迎来喜事。。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.。