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.。供职于东京某公司的安东尼(埃里克·波希克 Eric Bossick 饰)与妻子百合子(桃生亚希子饰)、儿子汤姆过着优渥、幸福的生活,但是一场灾难毁坏了这一切。汤姆被一个神秘人(塚本晋也饰)开车撞死,百合子精神几近崩溃。安东尼的身体也在愤怒之际不断金属化,这令他惶恐不已。与此同时,更有不明身份之人接连向他痛下杀手。按照神秘人的指示,他从父亲莱德的工作资料得知,许多年前父亲曾和母亲美津枝参与了一项名为“铁男计划”的科学研究,而自己竟是父亲潜心制造出来的具有极大杀伤力的人造人。一切由此陷入混乱之中…… 本片为铁男系列20周年纪念重拍版,是该系列的第三部作品。。