The film opens with a narrated disclaimer over footage of an opening coffin. The narrator explains that the film's climax is so terrifying that it may kill the viewer, and reassures the audience that if they die of fright while watching the film, they will receive a free burial service, and it closes on the casket which has a card inside reading "Reserved for You."[1]
Newlyweds Jenni (Peggy Webber) and Eric (John Hudson) move into Eric's palatial country home. Jenni is Eric's second wife; his first wife Marion died when she accidentally slipped and hit her head on the edge of a decorative pond on the estate. At the home they meet Eric's friends, the Reverend Snow (Russ Conway) and his wife (Toni Johnson), as well as Mickey (Alex Nicol), the developmentally disabled gardener. Eric privately mentions to the Snows that Jenni spent time in an asylum following the sudden death of both her parents, and Mrs. Snow reveals that Jenni is very wealthy.
Jenni is disturbed both by Mickey's belief that Marion's ghost wanders the estate and by Marion's self-portrait inside the house, which Jenni believes resembles her mother. When she begins to hear unexplained screaming noises and see skulls around her house, she believes that Marion is haunting her. Though Eric speculates to Jenni that Mickey, who was a childhood friend of Marion and thus dislikes Jenni, may be behind the trickery, Jenni worries that she is going insane. Eric then suggests to remove Marion's self-portrait from the home. Eric and Jenni take the painting outside and burn it. While they clean up the remains of the painting, a skull emerges from the ashes. While Jenni panics at the sight of the skull, Eric denies that the skull is there. Jenni faints and Eric withdraws the skull and hides it, revealing that he was responsible for the trickery all along in an effort to get hold of her wealth.
Believing she has finally lost her sanity, Jenni resolves to be committed. She tells Eric that the entire property will be meticulously searched for the skull as a last resort. Before Eric can retrieve it, Mickey secretly steals the skull and brings it to the Reverend, revealing Eric's plans. That night, Eric prepares to murder Jenni and stage it as a suicide. Jenni sees Marion's ghost in Mickey's greenhouse and flees back to the house. When she enters, Eric begins throttling her. The ghost then appears and chases Eric outside and about the property; it finally corners and attacks him, drowning him in the decorative pond.
After Jenni regains consciousness, the Snows arrive. Mrs. Snow comforts a hysterical Jenni and the Reverend discovers Eric's body in the pond. Some undisclosed time later, Jenni and the Snows depart from the house. Reverend Snow declares whether or not Marion's death was an accident will remain a mystery.
饭桌上你来我往的群戏是最精彩的，剧情弱了些，基本靠对话来推动。
猜猜在座的各位谁才是真正的文艺中年？想必巴黎人也自愧弗如。假如郭敬明真如其所愿地是个上海人会操一口流利的上海话，他会不会也像剥削费里尼一样剥削王家卫呢？（啊，原来人家早就开始剥削莎士比雅了啦！
可惜我太穷，不然会更爱。
当每一个梗都被电影所框定的受众群猜到时，多少就有些卖派了。
还是女人懂女人。喜欢徐峥美术馆那段“代表中国男导演给女性道歉”就是说非常一语双关了。中国电影终于又会好好讲普通人生活了
2021年院线最佳不过分吧？(吉祥如意最佳也行)
又嗲又灵，餐桌戏台词太高能了，什么“剩饭”什么“野猫”什么“私房菜变大锅饭”，刀光剑影的同时滴水不漏。
失望多于惊喜，新时代消费主义国产片，消费的一定是女，被嫖的一定是男，住的是市中心，约的是咖啡馆，掼浪头要费里尼，开画展要在外滩18号， “断舍离”，“送上门” ，像男主角家里的一幅幅画一样一个个标签符号横飞，台词直白抖机灵，虽然没觉得媚上海，但是很媚女观众，一边暗搓搓地搞暧昧一边把男权思维喷得狗血淋头，为什么彰显需要贬低作前提，我们的电影不是0就是1，永远看不到融合的0.5
5老白 你还是快跑
“无论现在在做什么忙着生计，但不要放弃想表达的，不过分在意别人的想法，时来运转，电影总有一天会有钱拍的。”long live！
《爱情神话》，灵啊。
群戏台词写得挺有意思的，不过也就仅此而已，可算是知道那些土狗艺术展都是谁在买账了，能得到我尊重的是真正的生活，不是手握上海几套房衣食无忧的文艺青年讲的俏皮话。
五星好评里估计大部分都是上海人或在上海生活过的人。很久没有一部电影能够那么的有上海的米道了，情调也有，爱情故事也讲得好，金句频出，插曲配乐也赞，喜欢八仙饭店的吞吐这首歌。有几帧画面拍得很有质感，李小姐一头紫发对着窗口吞云吐雾，老白拿着高跟鞋在雨中行走，那是爱情暧昧的模样。这种感觉和《志明与春娇》很像，一部港味一部沪风，都是爱情佳作。原本以为这神话讲的是老白的爱情神话，没想到是老乌的爱情神话，作为电影角色我是相信这个神话的，相信老乌讲的是真的。唯一的败笔是老白的儿子居然上海话不太会讲，虽然90后这辈上海话是有点没落了，但也不至于这么洋泾浜，黄明昊功课做的不太够啊。
国内真难得呀，画展tag让我想到大冰两秒....dbq
上海话非常international啊，想象了一下我们的方言也这么拍……感觉就像看科幻片一样。不过，我们的方言可能撑不到下一代了。
2.影片里有段倪虹洁和马伊琍吐槽男性导演/编剧的台词，我突然就想到了金庸，果然这些年被金庸笔下的女性角色带跑偏了。
看了1/3才认出老乌是野芒老师，看到他大晚上骑车到一家名为“夜奔”的小店我简直要被这个梗笑死，大家都挺惦记野芒老师的林冲夜奔经典皮肤哈哈哈。
老乌口述与索菲亚罗兰德韵事，我的心情就和在一旁听着的Gloria一样，一时不知道是真的还是假的，该哭还是该笑。果然都是满嘴跑火车的生物群体啊！
悲哀在于，情感和日常需要靠那些遥远的符号（费里尼/索菲亚/土耳其/英国/红拂夜奔）才能串联起有意义的链条，这无非是另一种偶然与想象。如此语境之下，精致的海派生活倒显出一种自欺欺人的况味，仿佛老白对小皮匠问询的变体“你的咖啡里有麻木的味道吗？”一边是悬置的能指，一边是实际是所指，双方在迷影式的致敬中少见的没能达成影像上的统一与和解。于是，爱情在本片中像一场精神上的屠杀，目标是这些或单亲带娃或有暧昧过往的中年男女，这里没有爱情的青春热血和蓬勃朝气，只剩拖拖拉拉的消极和孤叹。电影在准确描绘出中年爱情状态的同时，也将这些中年人抽象化了，因为他们在这场屠杀中的所有反抗与逃亡，皆是以有钱有闲为基础的。而更多的普罗大众，连被这种爱情蹂躏的资本都没有。这当然是一部好电影，但生活的底色赋予了它某种失败的气质。
上海老克勒，独立女性感情选择，去性别化的平等观念，中年人的梦想，女性友谊……这部电影里都有，堪称男士腔调指南。什么都讲了，可什么都没讲，故事的骨架是空洞的。电影里有些镜头让我想到《饮食男女》，如果前者是精美的浮世绘，本片就是摇晃的直播镜头。看得比较失望。
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