故事描写了一对由于灵媒体质而被妖怪纠缠的姐妹,姐姐静流的能力是“见鬼”(看得到妖怪)而妹妹瑞生则是“凭巫”(容易被妖怪附身),而他们可以徘徊于阴阳两界。 不知怎样培育这两个孩子的家庭,决定把他们托付给乡下的祖父母。在乡村平静的生活中,两姐妹从祖父母还有村民那里学习了与妖怪以及自然共存的重要意义,还理解了过去的人们尊重鬼神、敬畏自然的想法,通过植根于乡村生活中的风俗习惯掌握了现代人早已忘记的“珍贵的东西”。。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.。