胡雪岩

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影片故事根据真实事件改编，詹姆斯·默里博士领导下的编委会要进行新版本的《牛津英语字典》的编辑，以当时的人力科技水平，完成字典的编撰要一个世纪才能完成，詹姆斯·默里博士开创性的采用了全民参与的方式，让全英使用英语的人一起为字典收集词条定义，并通过寄信的方式发送给编撰组。 在收集定义过程中，他们发现了一个叫W.C.迈纳的医生独自贡献了一万多条引语，这是一个专业语言学者都很难完成的工作量。当编委会决定向他致敬时，一个惊人的事实曝光了：原来迈纳医生，是美国内战时期部队的一个军医，因为患有精神分裂症而犯杀人罪，被禁闭在精神病院，是一个被认为是疯子的人。 一位教授、一个疯子，人类历史上最早的英语大词典就这样在两个迥然不同的人手中诞生。。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.。