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.
有一个好想法，但是没有完成一部好电影。过于简单的表述，结构不足以支撑，故事的层次太弱，流于表面。活着，随着时间延续，看来无论是本体，还是克隆体，都会厌倦。为了活下去，显然假的，会更狠。
应该是不错的电影 但是对于我来说太过压抑和无趣了
Dual & Duel～最后的决斗如同等最后一只靴子落地，让人辗转反侧😂
确实让人想到天鹅婉歌，形式与主题不错，拍的确实烂，不如天鹅挽歌完整精致。
我觉得结尾段挺出彩的，根据细节克隆体应该一直暗中观察学习本体的生活方式，用一年的时间酝酿好了怎么杀死本体，但是杀死本体又有什么用呢，即使不喜欢依然要继续本体操蛋的生活，不能按自己的方式生活这样还算活着吗
高概念电影，但是导演调教演员的能力堪称弱智。而且节奏和剧情真的和设定相比弱太多，两分都嫌多。
导演既是编剧，导演是想说原生家庭和爱人冷漠的关系？好吧，被杀死的不是复制体而是身边最亲密的人
近来看的第三部克隆人的电影，也是我个人觉得最好的一部。和以往的克隆人题材电影相比，电影里的克隆人已经由试验品，变成了商品，由主体定制，用来替代自己的商品。不知道为什么很多人觉得电影是开放式结尾，我觉得只会是一种结局，如同片尾无声的字幕，伤感但真实。
那些说本体赢了然后不得不扮演复制体的，可能没注意一个细节。喝水的时候本体是扎了头发+圆领T恤，复制体是披着头发里面是衬衫。本体毒发死亡后，复制体穿了她的外套，但是里面的衣服没有换掉。所以死的就是本体，复制体说自己是本体，因为一来可以避免法律制裁，二来其妈妈和男友其实都是喜欢复制体的，合谋害死了本体，心照不宣。结尾哭啥？因为这也不是复制体想要的生活啊！
再次探讨了克隆人的伦理性，通篇告诉你男友是渣男，母亲并没有像你想象中那么爱你的一个孤独症患者，但是当有个你的反面进入你的生活，弥补了你所有的短板，并想抢夺你的一切时候，求生的欲望大过了一切，结尾的刻意悬念其实并不难揣测真相，但是真相背后是对自己内心的一次彻底摧残，孤独只会孕育孤独。
感觉科技发展，给人类带来新的难题。影片里很多细节呼应的很好，凯伦演技也不错，结局比较暗黑
我完全不知道这电影在拍什么东西，还有星云本人演技是有点差了
回味无穷的黑色幽默，看似荒诞的背景却又合乎逻辑的设定。开放式结局也为电影增色不少，难得的小成本佳作
莎拉太善良了，原諒男友，不殺狗，相信複製人的心理戰計劃，結果中計被毒殺。
二重身的概念已不算新颖，表达的落点也无非是身体—情感的双重利害关系。最后的反转是意料之内的射程，落下的泪水和挥出的利器孰优孰劣是创作者关于路径的决选。
挺致郁的，挺简单的一个故事搞得这么复杂
虽然故事整体呈现的逻辑不那么写实、现实，几乎没有科幻可言，但是一本正经搞笑和讲故事的风格，让我觉得比那些虚伪的主流故事意外好看。
算是半开放式结局，森林徒步到决斗场一切迹象都表明活下来的是克隆体，但庭审后的细节又有点倾向活下来的是本体，模棱两可都能够解释，导演剧本在设计上还是蛮严谨的。而用科幻概念和荒诞手法来映射某些社会现实，加上结局的反类型和暧昧性（是谁活下来其实并不重要，都要继承糟糕的人生），还是蛮有回味的地方。
克隆这个题材，这个角度不错。谁也无法替代别人的生活，谁也无法逃离自己的生活。结尾有点儿缺失逻辑了。
满屏的丧气。剥离掉很多现实社会的问题之后的一次实验，结果是人心依旧叵测，无论谁家的柴米油盐，都充满酸甜苦辣。
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