The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna. The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator, the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination. Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
在隔离的索马福里精神诊所的围墙后面,哈尔.莱格兰医生正在试验他的“心理治疗法”。这是一种用来释放病人压抑的情绪有争议的治疗方法,他把他的明星病人娜勒隔离起来,但是当她在治疗过程中变得愤怒的时候,愤怒杀手加害了诊所外面的无辜的人们,莱格兰的方法和这些恐怖的谋杀之间有什么关系?答案将释放新的绝对的恐怖! 国际影坛最富争议性、最成功的导演之一。一九七五年的处女作〈THEY CAME FROM WITHIN〉,以及之后的〈RABID〉,〈VIDEODROME〉都是恐怖片,一般公认这些作品都隐含了丰富的社会议题。柯能堡是加拿大人,善于探讨虚幻与现实,以及外力对这一切造成的影响。新片〈X接触-来自异世界〉结合紧张的动作场面,以及幻想与现实模糊的界限,是柯能保截至目前最有野心、最挑的作品
When Outlaws on the lam invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately, bloody revenge. 当亡命徒闯入毫无防备,看似无辜的家,身居边境的家庭趁夜逃离,猫鼠游戏却节外生枝,诱导迷惑,角色转换,最终,是血腥的复仇。