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.
当爱在形而上的意义里代表着突破断裂的尝试时，这便是一部关于爱的电影。洪通过“小说家-的-电影”，在无数的分裂、对立和交融中，创造了一个可以借由影像抵达的上升之所，又拉我们一起目睹了跌落后的惘然若失，这种升维的体验是超越了所谓电影和现实之隔的，近两次看完洪的新作走出电影院都是类似的体验，像魔法一样，像爱一样。而其实，撇开作为思考结果的“差异与重复，升华与疲惫”种种不论，洪真正的进化正是体现在他逐渐颠倒着一种固定太久了的“现实-概念-虚构”的逻辑链条，也就是说“经历、思考、创作”的感动几乎同时到来，洪由此成了德勒兹引出的“电影可以作为一种思考哲学的方式，哲学又其实是艺术性的创造行为”的真正实践者。所以那场持着花束说我爱你的电影婚礼更是“爱”作为一种连续性的力量，把一切都带到开放与交融之地的时刻。
我真的…大无语，老洪啊！磕CP磕到这来了，哎，又喜又无奈
除了是缪斯的原因，因为无法再拍其他导演的电影，洪尚秀才反复地拍摄金敏喜吧。（他也应该是惋惜的
是的。
9.4/10 #Filmlinc 理解电影的题眼不再是标题本身，而是书店内景中的一本书名：Today Will Be Different, 言简意赅地道出了洪片的本质: 一个"略有不同"的"平凡日子"。抛去对自我导演旅途的自反，抛开(影片内/外的)身份的穿梭，最重要的本质实则是“偶然与想象”。数个镜头中似是设计似是意外的“发生”:开头段谈话时告示板的滑落，餐厅一段时在门外偷窥的小女孩(难道不正像是《在你面前》里的那个孩子吗)。“偶然”同样构成了所有的会面/谈话，更直接成为片中电影的创作契机。而关于"想象": 则是所有对“偶然”的重塑或指引(包含那些“尴尬”的瞬间)，更是小说家所要做的准备，也更是片中对“小说家的电影”的制作过程与成片的忽略，相较于自上而下的侵入式的展示，洪显然更致力于邀请观众与他共同完成“想象”。
固定镜头，过曝的白，少了直男尬夸就清爽不少。终于Get到寒暄间隙的那种意会，人与人的沟通借由尴尬才有的递进和袒露。
第一部洪尚秀 固定机位长镜头人物说话
8｜谢谢Lim和FLC做这个pre-premiere！喜欢！charisma那段是自我致敬独立在夜晚的海边吧哈哈？感觉连金敏喜都很松弛很自由（为了花和金敏喜变成彩色的影像，好甜
拍一部电影 ❌
“花这么好看，不用彩色拍好可惜呀。”“我们可以用彩色拍。”🌻乏味是真的，但被最后温柔到也是真的。
金敏喜的眼睛和肢体表演，怎么会如此如此舒展荡漾，和洪擅长的相遇-对话-冲突戏一样，单靠日常就能实现魔法。偶然与想象。
爱情啊，真伟大，
洪现在真的有种铅华落尽的意思了，片子里的几个知识分子几乎都是他自身各个时期自我的投射，而聊到的关于那部电影，关于杜撰下的真实，则用来揭露整个片子要表达的：我给你们看了很多个我，我一直在自省一直在矛盾，但很多事我已经放下了，我现在就知道一件事，我爱金敏喜。
补标一下，Hong's Retro的secret screening。Actually possibly my favorite Hong so far，就是喜欢看真诚的感情！老子自己拍摄自己写剧本自己打光自己写音乐的电影就算最后二十分钟完全就是家庭影像直播自己的爱情还是能让整个walter reade theater坐满票sold out，谁不羡慕呢
他们的对话效率很低，做事却很高效。镜头内流动着徐缓，镜头外充斥着爱意。
1. 洪常秀不喝真露/初饮初乐，改喝塑料瓶装的玛格丽塔（？）了，这个宇宙是不是要崩坏了！2.导演就是想让我们看看金敏喜捧小白花、哼婚礼进行曲、说“我爱你”对吧？甜晕了，齁死了，怎么这样！
手捧着花金敏喜美得心颤！观感很好诶，没之前那些尴尬了哈哈哈
洪尚秀的私人作品，金句不多，思虑也不再细腻，金敏喜返璞归真依旧可人。
装作不在乎别人看法出轨在一起，其实心里在意的要死每个电影都在给自己洗白，不是很喜欢这种别扭的人，跟侯麦真的差远了
还是洪常秀电影宇宙里那些熟悉的演员和元素：吃饭、聊天、诗人、导演、看电影。还有生活化的场景和尴尬的聊天（戏里的聊天竟然带上了口罩，也算一种时代的印记）。不拍戏的女演员和不写作的女作者相遇后的一体两面。情节简约，可感情是流动的。洪常秀把金敏喜拍的太美“目光所及的你总是那么温柔”。电影是虚构的，“我爱你”是真实的。
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