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.
选题特别好。目的正义和手段正义纠结。政客恰恰又是在两者之间摇摆的特殊人群。没有理想和情怀做不了政客，只能做造王者，没有卑劣的手段，也当不了政客，毕竟在污泥谭里打滚，没点偏方无法立足。
就，也就一般吧，简化了的政治选举，手段也么有很如何。。当然生活太复杂，政治更复杂，难以真实展现吧。。。韩国所谓政治电影啊社会电影啊，都不过时隔靴搔痒而已。。国家社会却越来越混乱堕落固化。。。
读书才是改变一个人，改变其他人的更好的途径
韩国是个心态很窄的国家 任何事都以夸大数倍的样子呈现 内核却虚弱的可怜 而且在东西价值观上不断骑墙
光照的越亮，阴影处便越暗。偷鸡蛋的首尾呼应是神来之笔。
所以金大中能当上总统，而这个人连议员都没有机会。
真的可以，用微信小程序看的低清版本，而且字幕还贼垃圾。。机翻受不了。
Politics is a bloody hole of mystery. Never get involved into it if you’re trying to keep pure and idealistic.
两位男主都太纠结太拧巴了，残留着理想主义是不是一种政治上的幼稚病？韩国电影还保持着对政治惊悚和历史题材的热情，也是世界影坛的幸事了
我们只知道他们什么都敢拍，但我们不知道的是他们可以顺着这种自由会进行怎样的表达。全程都是目的论与过程论的竞合体，政治是一个不断进步的过程，同样也是一个不断沦陷的过程，但目的论的最终取胜终于将所有的理想主义归结到一种趋于梦境的聚会上…都说是《南山的部长》后最好的政治片，可这才几年，以一两年的跨度来标志着韩国政治片的分水岭是不是标准过低，而且把政治惊悚和政治上的糖水片放在一起对比似乎并不合适。以政客为叙事线索来进行理想主义的政治表达未免显得两条关于政治竞争的对比太过失真。视听语言上叠像使用（横幅、电视）以及转场方式上的相似蒙太奇衔接使用还是令人称道，但关于韩国电影工业化的夸赞似乎在当下已经并不必要了，那就再来夸一下薛景求的表演吧！
整部剧节奏太枯燥，就选举那段戏看着有点来劲。
韩国电影有一个通常的做法，即使在很宏大的主题或者很严肃的背景下，也经常会采用一些轻松幽默的手段来活跃影片的气氛。
【5月【🟢】【➊】】【2022 ▲ 233】【≈ 123分钟】【原版 ★ 中文字幕】【⭐】◀▶【⭐⭐⭐】
薛景求宝刀未老，他还是韩国男演员里的扛把子，李善均总觉得缺了点什么。
徐这影子终究会有他的阴暗，可再光明磊落的人置身阳光下，也会有影子，影子就是人的一部分，抛弃了影子你就不完整，再多的说辞不过是自欺欺人。
谁是影子？不过是为了正义形象虚构的分身。暗夜里，身与影合而为一，并无分别。
本来想给四星，故事蛮有趣的，看进去了。但是剧情有些拖沓，作为电影，可以在当上总统候选人那里停止就可，而后的总统竞选演说，说大韩有5000年历史，我还特地看了原版字幕，没错，是5000，然后我就减了一星。
翻译字幕太差了，影响观感，但真的不错，镜头语言还是表演，都非常出色，值得一看。
有光明，当然就会有影子。看此片深层的感慨，并不是徐的手段或金的理想，而是关于那个偷鸡蛋的故事。邻居偷了你的鸡蛋，你会做何选择，他又会有怎样的抉择。使理想充盈的从不是个体的觉醒，而是古人所言的仁，是两个人，是所有人。
在法制不健全的情形下，结果正义更重要。
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