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.。90年代初,孤女简爱(刘涛饰)辗转来到广州打工,当过餐馆小工、外贸公司茶水小妹,凭借聪明、善良以及敢打敢拼的斗志,成长为出色的外贸跟单员和业务经理。但简爱并不满足于已经实现的身份跨越,几经周折,她成立了自己的外贸公司,并且在经历了98年东南亚金融风暴和2008年金融危机之后,依托中国大陆改革开放的成果,依托不断蓬勃发展的中国外贸大势,回乡创业,创立民族品牌,最终成长为跨国集团老总。在成长路上,简爱也曾迷惘,最终,凭借自己的奋斗,取得了事业成功。而在寻找到自己人生价值的同时,简爱与方恒之(林峯饰)的感情,也在经历了风雨之后,从最初的男强女弱走向平分秋色,并成为最终的人生伴侣。。