本片根据1965年美国印第安纳波利斯的真实案件改编而成。女孩西尔维亚（艾伦•佩姬 Ellen Page 饰）因游乐园工作的父母事务繁忙，久爱精品与妹妹简妮（哈蕾•麦克法兰 Hayley McFarland 饰）搬入育有七子女的单亲母亲格特鲁德•巴尼泽夫斯基（凯瑟琳•基纳 Catherine Keener 饰）家暂住。格特鲁德的大女儿宝拉（阿丽•葛雷勒 Ari Graynor 饰）未婚先孕，久爱精品西尔维亚无意中听到这一消息，失口告知同学，没想消息泄露。宝拉迁怒西尔维亚，致使其被格特鲁德体罚。这之后，酗酒成性的格特鲁德将一切家庭问题均归于西尔维亚的到来，背着镇上人将她囚于地下室，并怂恿子女用酷刑折磨西尔维亚。不仅如此，镇上其他儿童也参与到这残酷的摧残中，共同实施了美国历史上针对个人犯下的最严重的罪行之一。凯瑟琳•基纳因此片被提名2008年艾米奖与金球奖最佳女主角。
干乐队
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)
回复 :该片另一个比较耸人听闻的标题叫做“德·拉·科鲁兹的罪恶一生”，听来令人误以为是又一部以犯罪凶杀来刺激感官的电影，其实是对大众刊物标题的戏仿，影片内容大相径庭。富家子科鲁兹幼年即受到一个幻觉因果的诅咒：当他摇动一个八音盒时，他所厌恶的家庭教师中流弹身亡。当他成年后，再次偶遇童年八音盒，周围的人离奇地按照他幻觉图景，一一毙命。他成了一个没有犯罪行为的罪犯。该片是布努埃尔大师创作中期的作品，技巧圆熟，但长期被认为是他的二流之作，缺乏早期的锐气和晚期的嘲讽精神，但后来又重新被评价为大师最富魅力的杰作之一。
名师三强
回复 :电影《红豆杉之恋》以大山深处特级贫困村第一书记秦奋斗与回乡创业女青年红豆在工作中产生交集，带领乡民种植红豆杉脱贫致富，患难与共，后萌生纯洁的爱情，携手奋斗在我国扶贫攻坚、全面建成小康的第一线为背景，是一部关注贫困村及红豆杉的影片。
