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.
“家长”的权威无论何地、何语境都是充满侵略性的
8.0 标签里少了悬疑的成分让整部片最后大加分。前半程的摄影配乐已经三星半，加上后半程的前半小时的性暗示和后半小时的冷峻的节奏，四星有了。
类型化切入《忧郁症》的症结，喜剧在压力和恐慌的夹缝中畸变成焦躁，越荒诞越恐惧，越无厘头越焦虑。因此它几乎不好笑，以希尔、里朗斯为戏眼的喜剧组织形态甚至令人不适，但却得以将观众压迫至敏感状态，和主角们一起将最基本的情感诉求作为最后的庇身所。
克制到极致的压抑情绪缓缓流淌，精雕细琢般的镜头处理，细节略有设计感，但埋的很精美。浓郁粗犷的西部氛围，在弦乐的加持下，神秘且不安。本以为重心在同性题材，却在结束后陡然发现所有的线牵起的终点是如此暗潮汹涌，以至于再回头去细细品味那些细枝末节，都多了一层独特气质，就像凝望一头困兽深邃的眼神。
前半段不太行…后半段Peter黑化勉强救场。卷福不错。拜托文学改编请别再搞章回体（今年这都第几部了…
“能看到犬山的都是内心隐秘之人。”焚灭的纸花，嗜血的疮疤。柔情的鹰隼，灰沉的阉兔。你不在乎的感受终会因袒露内腹的后知而自绝于高傲。在少有理解的狂欢中，唯有受犬力图腾支配度量的征服才可安抚人心的闪动。
不是很理解觉得不好笑的人，也不是很理解觉得不够严肃的人。我觉得这部电影既幽默又尖锐，甚至还有点浪漫。用娱乐至死消解娱乐至死又有什么不对呢，确切地说，难道我们还有别的选择吗？不知道这观点是不是有点悲观主义了。但我觉得拍摄这样的电影本身就是一种黑色喜剧。“尽管有必须跨越的海洋，必须翻越的山。”世界末日那天我只会选择在家躺着吃垃圾食品all day直到大家一起灭亡。
令人着迷的影像和心理张力，坎皮恩似乎太沉溺于这个故事的主观讲述，于是并没有太多空间留给观众。
令人着迷的影像和心理张力，坎皮恩似乎太沉溺于这个故事的主观讲述，于是并没有太多空间留给观众。
画面美且残忍，看着摄影机划过群山的画面，简直像动物的皮毛一样，发光柔韧。感觉下一秒就要因为呼吸而起伏起来，有点恐怖的美感。剧情倒是简单，美丽的男孩子从开始到结尾一直在做残忍的事情。可怜了卷福了
我以为全世界女性对男同性恋的印象都是固态的，粗犷要配对柔弱，初次见面总是针锋相对，简·坎皮恩也难免落入俗套。她把性的暗示克制在真挚与戏谑一线间，我等着前进或后退一步，最后发现还是我自以为是，以小人心度了君子腹。注意，提防隐匿群山之间的恶犬。
cringe, absurd, satiric, triggering, helpless, despairing, but the world needed this
民主党把持的好莱坞也开始刀刃向内，开足马力狂嘲女总统和口齿不清的老人家。
给结尾，生活大“爆炸”电影版，本以为是一出大笑话，冷不丁来个毁灭竟然还有几分惆怅，乔纳·希尔才是真主角（光环）。当然，前面的一些讽刺揶揄及笑料仍然很俗套。
视听极佳，镜头传达的信息很多，可我觉得前戏中无关情节有点多，以至于将主角的地位放在后面才逐渐清晰。
爱死刚开头这段旁白！这个氛围和配乐，真的很锈湖啊！卷福还是太英国太有文化了，这个角色给他有点违和。影片里很多细节，找机会看看原著。
非常臃肿的一部电影，主要体现在情节的编排和人物的塑造上，从影片进入正题之后，故事的叙述仿佛走向了死胡同，一方面要对菲尔的性取向遮遮掩掩不让它显得那么直白，另一方面又要极力扯开他身上的某种矛盾。整个看下来，一团用料相当精致浆糊。
文艺片就是这样，看了半个小时不知道在看什么，就一直在刻画人物性格，交代故事背景等等，这也区别于商业片讲故事的方式，不慌不忙，走走停停，大段的留白，直到最后的结局，才恍然大悟，同性只是一条隐线，妈宝男暗黑的内心才是最大的主题，全片卷福演技爆表，完全脱离了之前所有角色，一个铁石心肠的男人，以一种想不到的方式送命，善良的人啊，妈宝男最后的诡笑让人不寒而栗，一开始以为是一部文艺片，看到结局才知道，内核是一部惊悚悬疑片！
影片三星，本尼的表演加一星。演得太好了！外表粗鲁强大内心脆弱纤细，孤独的感觉很强烈，后劲很大。PS，最好的猎人总是以猎物的形式出现；PPS看到克斯汀邓斯特和杰西，差点以为是《冰血暴》的猪肉夫妻再现江湖。
导演像S一般控射观众，教科书般的视听下靠细节慢慢摸透叙事，而在沉稳的叙述下暗流持续涌动，内柔外刚的卷福，内刚外柔的男孩，“最后蛮俗的卷福穿着现代文明的西服进入棺材”，成为年度悲剧人物，传统老派的叙事风格，却深藏着触目惊心的反思，从女性角度去审视性别刻板观念和有毒的男子气概，后劲儿太大了，简坎皮恩，我记住你了！
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