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.
老年人表示有被冒犯到，呵，你们也不会年轻太久。
确实很有艺术性！！只是导演有几个片段的快剪让我不明所以，米娅高斯恐怖片女神yyds！以及老年人x生活值得关注
喜欢女主，竟然是一人分饰两角，有种阴森森的独特美，感觉很适合演魔女嘉莉
2022年第109部：应该比不上农夫女儿们的故事。
推荐给A24的忠粉和B级片爱好者观看。
好活！该有的商业要素都有，还能迷影致敬，还能挖一个老年人的好视角
[1]盲目刻板而又压抑的灵魂是否也曾会感到羞愧？[2]那台黑白电视机太懂什么是讽刺了。
老头老太太欲求不满，大开杀戒，最后被反杀，前面墨迹了一个小时，开两倍速都嫌慢，都是俗套，浪费时间，可以不看
饥渴难耐求爱而不得的老太太变态杀人。。。被欲望逼成什么样了
「赋予行为以动机」恐怕是新世纪恐怖片始终贯彻的一个基本点，而本片在怀旧滤镜之外，试图挖掘出「垮掉的一代」的心灵根源，以及更大的人类共情——「生命的激情」，这样的情感的确是会变异成妖的。
“She’s different. She’s SPECIAL.”
点子虽好但成色欠佳，节奏太慢看得人兴致缺缺，导演表达和虐杀情节一度无法兼容。以及《闪灵》的N+1次用法。如果偏老年人看了绝对火冒三丈，本来老年性生活的话题已经被忽视了太久，你可倒好，直接放到恐怖片里。
finally出现了老年人需求，和老去的恐惧源头其实差不多，但这种方式就很小成本+娱乐化。
2022年第109部：应该比不上农夫女儿们的故事。
整個故事真的超級一般，也沒什麼重口可言除非A片的拍攝過程也算？！ 但有些鏡頭還是可以的，衰老的描述其實還好，另外我挺喜歡這片配樂的
ps这俩妹妹真是近几年恐怖片熟脸了 米娅高斯跟悉尼妹外形气质和发展路线还挺像的
前半截色情片，后半截恐怖片——不惊悚只惊吓。老年人青春不在心不甘比较特别
剧情中的摄影为了艺术追求在黄片拍摄中愣是加入正常电影的技法，而本片的摄影也不遑多让，在恐怖桥段外，还拍出美式小清新画风。
摄影构图和剪辑是最大优点，插帧式的跳剪大部分是有信息量的，结局牧师放出女主画像震撼力十足，不过不太明白导演想表达什么。
血浆拌福利，迷影且怀旧。女主演员身兼少女和老太二角，人设和场景的对比处理挺有意思。影片和同为纪实风格强烈的惊悚片《探访惊魂》存在多处类似：都对片中的老年人予以“妖魔化”处理，都在剧情推进过程中向观众展现了新老一代的观念代沟；两部影片在主题方面，也都表达了主创对于衰老本身的恐惧。
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