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.
多少年过去了，美国人眼中的中国人还是没有什么变化。不知道该感慨美国，还是感慨中国。
我们的创作者真是卑微啊，有点社会责任感的就被拉黑名单，有点钱的就只能造些空中楼阁来聊以自慰，在这片土地上拍电影就跟在火星上种菜一样。然后到最后就剩下这么样一团破烂坐上了“年度华语电影”的位置。我们的观众也实在是卑微，生活在水深火热中还要在嘲笑西方政治正确之余面对这种电影腆着笑脸保持着精神小资和政治太监的复合人设。什么叫一方水土养育一方人啊？中产的，太中产的。
因为徐峥进的电影院，你以为他是c位，但其实我的目光全程都在三个女人身上，看她们对戏我直呼过瘾，吴越，马伊琍，倪虹洁每一个单拎出来都是戏痴，组合在一起就不仅是一台戏，根本就是核爆炸！
片中的女孩只要过度兴奋或紧张就会变成一只红熊（实际是一大只小熊猫）。这种变化背后的意涵是模糊的，也是丰富的，它可以理解为红色暗喻的初潮或性成熟，也可以理解为“不完美自我”的一再显形。而片中的母女对抗，或是符号化的宗族文化对于一代代女性的规训，共同构成一种压力，给女孩的成长设置阻碍。
爱情神话真的太灵了！
应该叫上海神话，也不是不好看吧，当喜剧看我还是笑的挺开心。只不过非沪语区的人确实是无法理解这种市侩又做作的生活，而且徐峥演男主给我一种哄抬猪价的感觉ˊ_>ˋ
生活里哪有什么爱情神话，生活的格调才是最重要的。画画、打鼓、写诗和做菜，然后是爱与被爱，徐峥和马伊琍等一众上海人把这个上海伪爱情故事演的妙趣横生，灵了灵了。
要素过多。。健身不练腿 早晚要后悔 非礼你看不下去切了个bgm是M83吗？？
徐峥做监制还是厉害的，题材选的好，生活中的小细节可以说是面面俱到了。演员请的好，各有特色的35+女演员。上海话说的也好，方言出来的一瞬间，市井味儿扑面而来，这部电影错不了了。
为了这种静下心来讲好一个故事的态度多给半颗星
还有红拂夜奔护手霜之类的细节也值得玩味。太棒了！为导演点赞！
两段餐桌戏棒呆，顶级群像，一流对白，你来我往，酣畅淋漓，妙趣横生又生机勃勃。一边看一边想夸导演，看得出用心挑选的一枝一叶拼出的精致和市井，感受到满满的生活感，像是你身边的、早已熟悉的大叔阿姨一样自然，还有那种动人而又稚气未脱的友谊；又一边想夸编剧，竟然写出了那么令人惊喜的烟火词，能在平凡的一幕幕间妙笔生出花，完全展示出了方言的魅力和生命力所在，看完脑子里一直回转着“灵”和“钞票”俩词对我产生的奇妙冲撞感。发现编导一体，想比烂大拇指👍🏻。谁说中年人的市井爱情没人爱看？剩饭都有猫抢呢。
仿佛就是在我家门口拍的，都是我走过的路，住过的屋，看过的剧和展，反复拍摄过的春日鲜绿梧桐与疯狂落叶的香樟。
作为上海景观挺好，作为爱情故事挺好，作为电影还是感觉缺一股劲，没能完全入戏，像最后看着爱情神话在吃散装零嘴。玛雅最好，配乐最差。
曾经在安福路附近住了很多年。每周末去跑步，上瑜伽课。想念那些漂亮的老洋房和梧桐树，湖南路上看起来贵气又神秘的兴国宾馆，每隔一段时间就会倒闭换招牌的精致的咖啡店，随便走走就会遇见的巴金故居。再走走还有华山医院漂亮的小花园和上海图书馆。晚上下班时延安高架两边的夜景，遍布街角的明亮温暖又干净整齐的24小时便利店的窗口，相熟的早餐铺水果摊和菜场的阿姨。想念上海话，想念总是被人称作“小姑娘”然后被碎碎念。太多了。一遍一遍地爱上上海的瞬间。
正常人过正常日子的故事，难得是难得在衬得另一种北方/官方/爹味叙事多么笨拙陈旧，无药可救。
两段餐桌戏棒呆，顶级群像，一流对白，你来我往，酣畅淋漓，妙趣横生又生机勃勃。一边看一边想夸导演，看得出用心挑选的一枝一叶拼出的精致和市井，感受到满满的生活感，像是你身边的、早已熟悉的大叔阿姨一样自然，还有那种动人而又稚气未脱的友谊；又一边想夸编剧，竟然写出了那么令人惊喜的烟火词，能在平凡的一幕幕间妙笔生出花，完全展示出了方言的魅力和生命力所在，看完脑子里一直回转着“灵”和“钞票”俩词对我产生的奇妙冲撞感。发现编导一体，想比烂大拇指👍🏻。谁说中年人的市井爱情没人爱看？剩饭都有猫抢呢。
真不错呀，我看来这就是沪语中年版《独自等待》，同时还真有点的伍迪艾伦的意思。电影描摹外国人都说上海话的上海不能说写实，却是世人想象中那个精致的小资的却又有生活气的上海，有着恰到好处的黑色幽默在里面。
突然就想起十多年前，细伢子们聚在我家一起看《2001太空漫游》，有人睡得很香。
也是很意外的第一次看到有那么大爷大妈自发走进影院去看这部影片，说明方言的魅力真的很大。同样是靠剧本收获口碑和市场，这部片出来，我几乎可以把《扬名立万》逐出个人年度十佳了。它甚至有潜力成为中国版《真爱至上》。
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