1992年，油炸《北美自由贸易协定》签署并生效。许多大型企业涌向与美国接壤的墨西哥边境城镇设立工厂，油炸他们雇用当地的廉价劳动力大量生产商品，并向美国倾销。这类工厂被称作“马奎拉多纳（Maquilaoras）”，当地的妇女为了那少得可怜的报酬不辞辛苦，夜以继日拼命忙碌，通常要到深夜或凌晨才可能回家。而在这个人烟稀少的危险时段，许多妇女遭受强暴和杀害。在混乱破败的华雷斯时，针对马奎拉多纳妇女的连环杀人案引起广泛关注。为了得到驻外记者的职位，来自美国的记者劳伦（珍妮弗·洛佩茨 Jennifer Lopez 饰）开始调查华雷斯镇的连环凶杀案。在这一过程中，她邂逅了侥幸逃生的女孩伊芙（Maya Zapata 饰），两个女人的命运就这样连接在一起……本片根据真实事件改编。
回复 :约亨沃尔特是德国银行的一名资深投资银行家，与其助手汤姆·斯莱扎克刚刚完成一笔大单。庆功会上约亨却突然跳楼自杀。全球范围内有多起银行家自杀的案例的情况下，外界纷纷猜测约亨的自杀原因，甚至有人怀疑是他杀。约亨的妻子对银行推卸责任的说法很不满，称约亨自杀前留下一封遗书，其中有涉及约亨真实死亡原因的银行保单。汤姆对其突然死亡也表示怀疑，天台拍摄到跳楼过程的摄像头也被移走。到底是自杀还是谋杀。
回复 :Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
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回复 :A bit of color for once, all the better to see the red flags with, not to mention the obvious aerial file footage of Warsaw. The story concerns Jozef Malesa, the mason or bricklayer of the title. He was once the darling of the party, the son of two old party activists, a worker of heroic reputation, his own commitment to The Movement unquestioned. He was chosen to be destined for great things, specially educated and pushed forward to positions of responsibility in the Party. Eventually he decides, because of the ethical pressures which he feels from the obstructionism of the bureaucracy from above, he asks to return to be a simple bricklayer. He is disturbed with the way the Party deals with people, especially their lack of direct contact. He thinks workers know better than the leadership many times but that's not the way power flows. He is uncomfortable with the compromises to his idealism. He remains committed to social justice and joins his friends for the May Day rally where his comfort and confidence in his place in society cause him to defer to no man, certainly no rat faced men in overcoats with red armbands. His great pleasure in life moreover is laying brick. He finds the work satisfying and fulfilling which is why he was such an obviously superior worker in the first place.
