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.
【C】好家伙成年番了 最好笑的是我在一天内看了两部 完全没有觉得有啥区别 2020和2021一样的suck 更离谱的是你不停的会想 万一去年是这十年内最好的一年怎么办
很讽刺的，人们一点也没从2020的教训中学到任何东西，对中国的偏见依旧是不变……甚至还和印度相提并论了……
“A virtual reality world looks increasingly appealing，since ，in actual reality，the world is still trying to kill us。”—— Again，this is not a mockumentary。
what I learnt for 2021 is that people didn't learn anything from 2020
变成了每年的保留节目 不知不觉间一年又发生了许多疯狂荒谬的事情 虚假与真实间 世界迷茫了 人们似乎从未如此坚定却如此陌生 信任和怀疑之间不再是天平的两极而是跨次元的隔着屏障 2021年教会了我们 还像2020年一样什么都没学会
前女友的戏份毫无必要 最后三十分钟也太拖沓了…… 除了徐贤和小狗 属于是顶级诈骗了👊
老美完全没从2020学到教训的又一年，梗和讽刺依旧密集。川普虽然不在了，但又无处不在，“我们应该在美国自己制造病毒变异株，而不是进口，make American germs again”。没有意外，年底又可以预订2022篇。
今年这版更多的是讲美国的社会现象。不过还是很适合以这部作为自己今年在豆瓣的最后一个标记，来表达自己对于今年的心情：fucking 2021
“runaway！”
又一年。nobody ever learned anything in 2020.
搞笑地串联了一年大事件：美国入侵国会、塔利班掌权、气候变化、失败的气候大会、无人的东京奥运、英美澳武器协议、omicron病毒变种、贝佐斯的太空之旅、Facebook知情影响却无所作为、改名元宇宙、反疫苗者、反口罩者…… 几个叙述者锦上太添花，让讽刺到达一个新的高度。
3. AUCUS with 法国 = FAUCUS
激进左看多了也是有点累 最后也不过是看谁都傻13
【2021事件大总结】
Death to 2020彷彿猶言在耳大家大概沒料到這麼快又一年了該不會要這樣每年一直做下去吧//一直以為有去年有Christina Aguilera但怎麼想都不對勁原來那是Yearly Departed呀不是Netflix是Amazon, 似乎也有2021特輯
What I did learn in 2021? I learned that nobody learned anything from 2020.
2021最后一天看的这个片子，访谈的风格，但是我觉得问题的方向，思辨都没有很有心，整体就是说了事儿，很浅的有个表达，思考可能都谈不上。总之用它纪念一年的最后一天，我有点失策了。希望2022年世界会更好。
“A virtual reality world looks increasingly appealing，since ，in actual reality，the world is still trying to kill us。”—— Again，this is not a mockumentary。
以纪录片的形式做的喜剧片，也就是说，是一部伪纪录片。人物采访、解说、主持人都是演员，穿插了大量的真实镜头，主题是对2021年的抱怨
亚洲体系下的《五十度灰》，有一种亲近的羞耻度。看似是BDSM的外衣，但其实能看出女导演对权利与性的解构。在职场中屡受男性压迫的智宥，成为BD关系中的“上位者”，享有支配权；而为奴的智厚，其实是将两性关系倒置，并推向平等的一个工具（划分在女性集团内）。权利阶级与两性关系在某种性爱嗜好里互文，插入与被插入、支配与被支配被人为混乱。利用现有的性别二元制打造这样一部不明觉厉的电影，影片中正常与否，变态与否，都在警示我们会成为小众，并积极地引向平等。
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