Bordertown

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445935/
The border between Juárez - Mexico and El Paso - USA over 340 women has been raped and murdered.
Eva Jimenez (Maya Zapata)


is one of the young workers who has been attacked, beaten and raped. Some say that the victims are 340, Alfonso Diaz (Antonio Banderas) a newspaper editor in Juarez however say that it might be as much as 5.000 women.




Eva getting raped













Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez) is an reporter from Chicago who unwillingly goes down to Juárez to write about the murders. She starts to get personally involved as she and Alfonso (Antonio Banderas) digs deeper into the case.

The great thing about this movie is to see “3 generations” of female latinas in leading roles; Sonia Braga, Jennifer Lopez and Maya Zapata. The best performance of them is by Maya Zapata, who is close to amazing in her role as the raped 16 year old girl.

3 latinas; Maya Zapata - Jennifer Lopez - Sonia Braga













The bad things in my opinion is at first that Lauren seems more interrested in writing the story and getting famous then caring for the real people and the victims. However that changes as also her life is in jeopardy…

As much as this movie tries to tell the story about these horrific cases it does it in a way that makes me feel kind a dumb.
When you have the keypersons in the story telling and yelling that this is not humanity and it is wrong, for me anyway it takes away the real atmosphere and meaning. Don´t get me wrong, it´s an important movie (it raises the awarness of this case) and a good movie aswell.
It seems more like an promotionmovie for amnesty and other civilright movements, then a movie about the true massmurdering and massrapes.
Allthough it may sound like a really brutal movie, com on 340 kills and rapes, it is a R-Rated movie or as for Germany it only became a PG12.

Bordertown focus more on the actual case and it also, as mentioned above, is to raise questions. An extra plus though for it “blames and asks” about civilrights (the workers are slaves).

Don´t expect any brutal rape, even though the additional details under the imdb link says so.
However a good solid and important movie. And yes, Maya Zapata is an actress to keep an eye on. Her future is bright. Ironicly though, Jennifer Lopez career seems to have gone downhill after this movie.

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- Will she be able to do this?
- She crawled out of her own grave..
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tikIenRQ_K8


Site from the production company
http://www.capitolfilms.com/Film/Bordertown

More on the real events
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/ciudad_juarez/

Read more about Amnestys work
http://www.amnestyusa.org/violence-against-women/justice-for-the-women-of-juarez-and-chihuahua/page.do?id=1108394


The result of the rape