Shortly before he is to wed, millionaire John Willis is visited by Dr. Harry S. Blair, a psychiatrist who informs him that years before he was married to Nancy, John's wife-to-be, and warns him that she is mentally unbalanced.
Blair then relates the following story: After a whirlwind romance in Florida, Blair marries Nancy and starts a psychiatric practice in New York. One day, artist Norman Clyde comes to his office and tells him that an innocent man is about to be executed in Sing Sing Prison and that Nancy is the cause of his unjust incarceration. A distraught Clyde then explains himself to a curious Blair:
Three years before, Clyde meets Nancy, whose maiden name was Monks, when she enrolls in his art class. The moody Clyde soon falls in love with Nancy's honest charm and beauty. Nancy, a secretary, introduces Clyde to her boss, millionaire Andrew Bonner, and persuades Bonner to showcase Clyde's paintings at one of his private showings. To Nancy's delight, Clyde's painting, a depiction of the tragic figure Cassandra for which she modeled, wins first prize at the showing. The evening is perfect until an expensive bracelet is stolen from a guest, and Clyde later finds it in Nancy's purse. After Clyde confronts a confused Nancy about the theft, she relates the following story to explain her behavior:
As a young girl, Nancy lives with her housekeeper mother in the lavish Willis home and plays with Karen, the Willises' little daughter. Although Karen wants to invite Nancy to her upcoming birthday party, Mrs. Willis refuses to allow the lower-class Nancy to attend. A true friend, Karen promises to give Nancy one of the pins her guests are receiving. When Karen realizes there are no extra pins, however, she offers Nancy the beautiful locket she has just received from her mother. Nancy's subsequent joy is soon crushed when Mrs. Willis demands that she return the locket. Later, the locket is discovered missing, and Nancy is accused of theft. Although Nancy's mother soon finds the locket in Karen's dress, Mrs. Willis refuses to believe Nancy and forces her to "confess."
The adult Nancy then admits to Clyde that this childhood humiliation caused her unconscious desire to steal the bracelet at the party. After a forgiving Clyde returns the bracelet anonymously, he and Nancy continue their romance until the next party at the Bonners'. Suspecting that the absent Nancy is spending the evening in Bonner's arms, Clyde leaves the party to look for her and sees her exiting Mrs. Bonner's bedroom just after two gunshots are fired. Bonner is found murdered, and Mrs. Bonner's diamond necklace, stolen. Although Nancy and Clyde are questioned, valet Myron Dexter is eventually found guilty and is sentenced to die. Clyde, however, strongly suspects Nancy, but she angrily maintains her innocence and leaves for Florida.
Back in his office, Blair defends Nancy to Clyde but invites him to his house that evening. When confronted, Nancy denies everything and tells Blair that Clyde is merely jealous. The next day, Dexter is executed, and a guilt-ridden Clyde jumps from Blair's office window to his death.
To avoid scandal, Blair and Nancy move to England, and after World War II breaks out, Blair volunteers his medical services, while Nancy becomes an ambulance driver. Expressing concern over Blair's health, Nancy insists that they take a vacation at Lord and Lady Wyndham's manor house. Just as they are leaving, Blair learns that one of Lady Wyndham's valuable jewels has been stolen. Blair suspects Nancy but is unable to prove anything until a bomb destroys their flat and reveals her cache of stolen jewels.
Although confronted directly, Nancy continues to deny any guilt and divorces Blair after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Back in John's study, Blair, like Clyde before him, tries to convince John to abandon Nancy, who now uses the name Patton. John, however, believes Nancy when she tells him that Blair is still suffering from his breakdown.
Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics. As Nancy is later taken away to an institution, John sadly realizes the truth of Blair's story, but determines to see Nancy through her crisis.
好美好舒服，自从本届看了十诫巴赫曼引见之后，壁纸电影轻而易举！
香港电影有大陆找不到的细腻，电影非常平，但就是不知不觉某一刻打动你。
感觉和刺客聂隐娘用到的技法有异曲同工之妙，观影体验也是要么爱死要么很痛苦。老爷爷无声的凝视，自然平衡与生命平衡的互文，注定有尽头才能被称之为洞穴…看的时候想到这儿脑壳都疼了，所以不知道怎么评价。
Nice，我的人生第一部电影院看睡着的电影
本以为是一个“工作细胞”的故事；另外深影试听效果确实不错，影片内的声音总以为是在我身后；另外以后看大屏一定往后坐，虽然本片字幕很少但依然感觉眼睛不够看。。。
BFF2021...看了40分钟之后忍不住走了
2.5/5 青年和成年苏桦伟的演员选得挺好的，长得很像。不太喜欢这部片可能是因为它一直营造一种悲情催泪的氛围，回避掉许多现实问题的呈现和答案。比起苏桦伟，其实我更想知道为照顾他而出生的弟弟的故事，那会是怎样的人生。
想起了艾什诺兹的《跑》：艾米尔跑不过国家机器，苏桦伟跑不出生存困境（一如白银越野马拉松的遇难者）。着力点不在于体育励志，明线是母子情，暗线是运动员的赛后境遇——从“同工同酬”的呼吁到速递员的转型，是什么在阻挡神奇小子跑下去？创作者在发出质询，尽管还是太温柔了。用力过猛之处在于安放了太多戏剧冲突，例如弟弟那条线不了了之，没能处理好全片的情感密度。在这个市场低迷的年头，华语电影却悄然迎来了跑步题材的并喷，和《超越》《了不起的老爸》同一起跑线，《神奇小子》绝对是领跑者。尹志文在彭浩翔手下磨练出了扎实的编剧技艺：故事、人物、主题，而不是让虚张声势的视听喧宾夺主；也慢慢发觉自己对电影的评价体系回归了传统。但话又说回来，最喜欢的一场亚特兰大接力赛，又几乎是纯靠视听建构的，奔跑的姿态本就有摧枯拉朽的能量。
“用力哭，不如用力跑”“我羡慕这个世界上除我以外的任何一个人，我想成为这个世界上除我以外的任何一个人”就是太刻意了……太主旋律了……
一部杜比全景声在杜比全景声影院🎥，画面和音效简直太棒了。影片非常喜欢，看完后每个人都能有自己解读，开放性很大～
洞穴的探索与老人日常生活的平行剪辑像是对一段往事的探索。
伟仔从阿妈背后为她戴上🏅那一幕真的好感动。演员很出色，伟仔直到真人出来我都在想演员是不是真的就是残障人士来演的，而且怎么能三个年龄段都找到这么相似的演员，太厉害了！吴君如演的我一直想到岁月神偷，然后脑里就一直在“一步难一步佳”，这部片我也是因为吴君如才去看的。四星里最少两星半要给演员。
老师送的票，中秋节自己一个人去看，电影老无聊了，和我一样。
这个世界缺少的不是另眼相看，而是平常视之。
依旧在爱宝filmhouse看的小型电影节（Italian Film Festival）：电影没看懂…豆瓣评论也看不太懂…不知道如果没有精准错过Pasquale的介绍会不会能懂一点…我这感悟力追随老师的步伐漫长且艰辛啊…
2021.9.29 北影节 合生汇寰映真是呕
2、【Set】
有被感动到，但完全是因为真人真事，而不是因为电影本身。
#2021北影节#虽然专门设置只在杜比声影厅放映，可终究敌不过各路观众发出的各种嘈杂之声。加上太多没有重点的大全景，和相对略显快速的剪辑和明暗场景切换（总是还没能沉浸于这个镜头就切到了下一个），无可奈何的走神了，到最后也没能再看进去。 却在某一天突然明白了洞与老人的联系，或许洞就意味着人的一生，或是任何未被人所全知的事物？当对它的探索愈发深入，对它的了解愈加明晰，它的生命也即面临终点。
“非完美母亲”的定位让电影变得更具真实感，但这种真实却在每个时段的浮光掠影和过度渲染中被消磨掉了。
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