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.
据说在美国票房惨败，我觉得主要还是太长了，可以稍微精炼一点。拍的还是很好的，历史上真实案件的老瓶装上了女性主义的新酒。在决斗过程中我就在想，强奸犯和老公都死了的话，女主就自由了，可以自己当家做主了。果然这就是最后的结局，棒！
中世纪女权电影，罗生门的叙事手法。虽然没有天国王朝的战争场面，但是一个好故事也足矣给观众留下深刻印象了。
要能在大屏幕上看可太爽了，香农堡形制的石头房间里用炉火和蜡烛照亮侧脸，冰天雪地的巴黎圣母院修到一半，画里见过的发型博物馆看过的盔甲还有书上记载的决斗方式。视听的娱乐性已经点满，它还有个好故事，而且讲得高明。法国20世纪还有决斗（非法的）有人跟我说那浪漫。呵。Jean：我爱妻。Jacque：我情圣。女主：俩猪猡。
让我们先从勇敢发声开始！Say No！
雷老把司机拍的让人想踹，幸好我是从婚姻故事和星战来的，唯独司机的蜜汁魅力很是认可，虽然角色招人恨。
向来不怎么喜欢古装电影，但雷德利斯科特执导的几部，我评分都很高，如《角斗士》和《天国王朝》等。从强大的卡司，到摄影、配乐，乃至服装、道具，无一不是精雕细琢，叹为观止。
就看最後決鬥，21世紀過了20年，還有這種水平的冷兵器對抗。白雪飄灑，點落在盔甲上的冷寒；眾目睽睽，兩個人物聚合到頂點的矛盾，緊張到窒息的肅殺之氣。匕首扎進皮肉那一聲嚦血，面上承受數次猛撞後的血綻肉破。
依旧是这个时代最难看到的中世纪质感还原，84岁的老雷功底不减当年的《天国王朝》，在罗生门的结构里权力与情欲的较量，真相徘徊于被害者、加害者和受害者之间的利益权衡。
当情绪还执着在欲窥探雷导要怎样用罗生门式的悬疑构造来将矛盾引至高潮时，剧情却早已在抽丝剥茧的蜕露其刺骨的奥义，借古讽今的女性生存处境主题，更显超越时代、文化、地域与人种的亘古性与必要性，其普世价值通俗易论，加持有着《天朝王国》般寒光铮铮的视听愉悦，不得不再次钦佩雷导老骥伏枥的创作激情
三视角的处理真的太绝了，男性视角的自我美化和自我投射，实在是真实，真实到，即便不看女性视角，也可以很明显看出哪里不自然，Jacques视角把逃脱挣扎看成欲拒还迎当然是再明显不过，Jean视角听到妻子控诉犯人表现出的冷静和支持简直太假。任性、虚荣、嫉妒这些强加在女性身上的刻板印象，在这两个男人身上显露无疑，而女性自古以来，控诉性暴力却一直在滚钉板、受火刑，末了还被来一句“诬告零成本”。决斗之后的回程，对Jean来说，是胜利的荣光，对Marguerite来说，却是游街示众，她的苦难远远没有结束……几百年后的文明人，审视受到性暴力的女性的样子，和黑暗残忍的中世纪又有多大的区别？好在故事最后，好斗的丈夫战死沙场，谁不叹一句苍天有眼，离开男人才是女人幸福生活的开始
同一事件下不同视角的台词细微差别十分值得玩味。老雷巧妙地用一场中世纪最后决斗，谱写出一首女性主义哀歌。A child needs his mother, more than a mother needs to be right.
看得想手撕Adam Driver🙃这哪是什么中世纪，明明就是活生生的当下。
影片从卡鲁日母亲告诉玛格丽特自己也曾被强奸时才正式开始。从三人不同角度陈述的罗生门式的“玛格丽特是否被强奸”的故事提到了女性发声的高度。最后卡鲁日在决斗中胜利不仅赢回了脸面，也是长久以来一直被“强奸”的女性对强权的一次胜利。
多有趣，维伦纽瓦拿着未来拍出历史和过去，雷老爷子拿着过去拍出现在和未来。依然可见，有些事情就算过去了一千年一万年，人类的言行亘古不变。
罗生门其实不好搞，一是这是个被观众看烂了的小花活，这么多年了还用这一套吓唬人没惊喜，何况本片的三段故事其实并没有实质性差异，二是这种形式在稍增趣味的基础上没有添色，对于这个真实事件的影响力和震撼性反而打了折扣，也一定程度上影响了故事的真实性，尤其在女主视角的男女主对立其实不太站得住脚。但是我喜欢的两个原因，一是始终挺喜欢这个浅尝辄止的对男权社会的批判，就算是有限度自以为是的，还是一定程度上取悦了我（但其实我对女性主义没有明显偏向），二是最后的决斗段落很生猛带劲，算是提起了我的兴致。
三个不同视角的罗生门，丈夫，舆论，狗屁朋友，庭审对被强奸女性的不友好把我看哭了。
三幕递进其实还挺考验女主表演功底的。
女性视角来看男人决斗有点新鲜，但三种叙述，太过冗长，看的有点乏味。
“罗生门”式的结构，再现历史，尽管有些冗长，但电影除了有张力的暴力场面之外，更多的是戏剧冲突，老雷在镜头下的把控力实在是能力超群，加上大本和呆萌的编剧联手，都保证了这部电影的水准。
那两个男人为什么决斗？公平？正义？尊严？荣誉？家人？真相？……很可惜，都不是。真相令人唏嘘，结尾令人感叹——无论古今还是中外，身为一个女人，真的好难！
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