家中经营药堂的刘诚（冯德伦饰）带着一众乡亲打算到城里发展生意。生意正值兴旺，一场莫名的大火让所有兄弟都失去了生命，刘诚自此一无所有并锒铛入狱。真正的凶手其实是他的助手彭四（黄浩然饰），为了钱竟不择手段。狱中警察的亲人曾受刘诚慷慨施药，于是请来年轻律师蓝小芊（钟欣桐饰）帮刘诚洗脱罪名。可惜彭四用钱疏通关系，决心要将刘诚置之死地。蓝小芊买通刽子手，希望能在行刑时放走刘诚。刘诚回到自己的故乡，发现祖屋被毁，妻子女儿过着人不似人的生活。后来，刘诚才被早已发生在自己身上的事吓倒。
陈慧娴
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张玮纶
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。
徐哲纬
回复 :This is a brilliant surrealistic film.But also a fully realistic story about a time when the brave avant-guarde artists were trying to explore the unknown landscapes of human possibilities.The contrast between two realities the poor village and the dadaist artists is shown very smart and brings the possibility of changing the world by the art.Unfortunately, that progressive ideals of making the world better by revealing new areas of imagination, that ruled in the first half of XX century, were crushed by the war.And, the tragedy finishes the artistic ideals are dead, international art brotherhood also, but, as a real disaster Yugoslavia is also dead, as a country, but as an artistic vision of nation's brotherhood, too.So, the art falls apart
