法国人自己拍摄的关于18世纪法国文豪巴尔扎克的生平传奇，由大鼻子扮演的巴尔扎克是本片最大的看点，电影围绕着这位桀骜不驯的怪才不平淡的一生，把他的婚姻、爱情、小说创作和家庭关系一一进行剖析，突破了过往对巴尔扎克的完美塑造，将他描绘成一个性格古怪、脾气暴躁、风流倜傥、最后因痴肥而卧床不起的失败男人--也许事业上是成功者，但生活上他是个地地道道的失败者。 阿尔当扮演的女子是巴尔扎克在生命弥留时的最大安慰，整部戏很有文艺味道，影片将那无可奈何式的人生落幕表现得很哀惋。

法国人自己拍摄的关于18世纪法国文豪巴尔扎克的生平传奇，由大鼻子扮演的巴尔扎克是本片最大的看点，电影围绕着这位桀骜不驯的怪才不平淡的一生，把他的婚姻、爱情、小说创作和家庭关系一一进行剖析，突破了过往对巴尔扎克的完美塑造，将他描绘成一个性格古怪、脾气暴躁、风流倜傥、最后因痴肥而卧床不起的失败男人--也许事业上是成功者，但生活上他是个地地道道的失败者。

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电影围绕着这位桀骜不驯的怪才不平淡的一生,把他的婚姻、爱情、小说创作和家庭关系一一进行剖析,突破了过往对巴尔扎克的完美塑造,将他描绘成一个性格古怪、脾气暴躁、风流倜傥、最后因痴肥而卧床不起的失败男人--也许事业上是成功者,但生活上他是个地地道道的失败者。

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’ The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.

沃尔克·施隆多夫将贝尔托·布莱希特的表现主义晚期作品移植到了1969年的现代背景中。诗人兼无政府主义者巴尔住在阁楼里，向出租车司机朗诵他的诗歌。巴尔起初受到资产阶级社会的追捧，后来遭到排斥，他在森林中徘徊，沿着高速公路游荡，对烈酒、香烟、女人和男人都有着强烈的欲望：“你得放出那头野兽，让它沐浴在阳光下……”

Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

扎克·帕尔梅是一位不同寻常的14岁男孩。他是一位了不起的艺术家，能用自己的笔画出任何他想画的形象。不仅如此，扎克还有一个非比寻常的家庭，甚至非比寻常也不足以来形容它。也许用怪诞，不按常理出牌来形容他们一家人更加合适吧。更加神奇的是，扎克的pad可以让它画的东西成为实物，最初这些额外创造出来的东西经常会给他和他的朋友们造成烦扰，幸运的是他总能画点其他东西化解危机。