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.
近来看的最棒一部国产片了，基于传统男女人设进行对调，三个女性角色如李小姐（异域离异格调神秘的野花）格洛丽亚（小野猫有钱有闲吃了抹嘴就跑）、前妻（犯了男人都会犯的错），以及两位男性角色白辛苦和浪荡子老乌，三女两男让一出私房菜成为一锅大锅饭，并且这还是个很有韵味和腔调，充满了戏谑和幽默的故事，我个人很喜欢导演给的这种视角和剧本语言。
2021年我的华语电影前三
意外的好看除去最后老乌那里故事不俗套，而且那种上海小资情调拿捏得很好，对于中年人爱情有了点向往。无论是街景还是主角住屋都让人喜欢，白虽然大腹便便但是会绘画、做饭，喜欢三位女士之间对话。
还是觉得大可不必放那么多歌。放歌把每段以对话驱动的场景变成了独幕剧，场景之间的弄堂生活变成了幕间休息，像情景喜剧一集结束了开始放主题曲（这也是为什么看完大家都觉得这个本子可以拍成电视剧），但电影可以不那么 episodic，话痨电影不一定要通过这种方式给观众的感官放松，或者对城市声音的捕捉亦可以撑起那几段的听觉空间，歌也能有，但可以退居二线。影片整体好也好在坏也坏在它的「格局」相当狭小而暧昧，塑造了一些可爱的女性形象说出了一些伶牙俐齿的台词，但又因为她们的线索是个老白这样的男性，使得影片呈现的女权主义有那么一点《欲望都市》般难经推敲；在很多时刻你能感觉到它（可被原谅地）欲言又止，这大概就是华语喜剧。至于神话，那确实是没有的。
太喜欢了！独属于新派的话语属性和旧时代的烟火气缔造了这些横冲直撞却又时刻携带着小心翼翼的形象。你可以不相信开口闭口都是Jimmy Choo和英文名言的街头鞋匠，但你不得不信他围绕着这些所养成的浪漫体质。生活中哪来那么多“爱情神话”，可即使承认了它的虚伪，我们还是感到欢喜。迟暮的他还能回想起过去的喷泉之夜，银幕上的相识最终用死亡来祭奠，在回忆的容器载体中，这当然是一个无比罗曼蒂克的故事，因为它是编的。
怀着挑剔的心去看，但说不出不喜欢三个字。但也没必要那么大包袱，确实看得开心，就像一盘没下完的棋。其中几个点特别特别戳我。比如男人喜欢一个女人，就本能得觉得自己要对她好，开始施加情感压力，好可笑哦。就比如男人自以为自己能克制ego，是新好男人，但一旦情绪崩不住又变回公牛，好可笑哦。就比如女人……没了
3.5. Neither a masterpiece of realism nor a disastrous, complete sham, this film is roughly as good (or as bad) as a mid-tier Rob Reiner/Norah Efron rom-com. The real question is whether we could still afford to enjoy such a film innocently in this day and age.
挺喜欢的，值回票价（比平常高1/3）。因为以前做过城市摄影所以会比较在意都市的呈现方式，这部给人的感觉耳目一新。电影从第一个镜头的（话剧）[幕后]走到（电影）[台前]，本身是有一个空间维度的转变的，这里要用到一个建筑学的术语，叫facade立面，每个人物都试图维持自身的精致立面（一如上海遗留的老建筑），但只有白老师是在试图展示和衔接侧面（多面，最终在餐桌上相遇）。每当立面崩塌，就会出现不同的空间调度，一如寻找展厅时强调的空间错位，这些差错深深浅浅，偶有触碰到中年人的脆弱时刻，但却并没有一刻失去气力。从幕后到台前，爱情的神话是渗透立面的努力，排队没有领到糖，好歹有共享抗糖化妆品嘛～
精致，浪漫，刻薄可爱，宛如置身于上海的街道，迎面遇上一群似乎装腔作势又似乎原应如此的妙人。人到中年情转克制，克制的浓情本身也是一种浪漫。
沉闷，没剧情，没演技。1.0星。一堆人说年度华语前三，我也会说，近几年的华语电影我基本一部不漏，这是我今年打过的最低分。
“你真变态”（划掉）——→“你真可爱”
人们正是因为喜欢神话才向往爱情，可惜真实世界的爱情里很难存在神话。奢侈的东西被标榜以平价，平民消费观贯穿在这群隐形富豪，这种对观众亲民的爱情真是个神话！https://movie.douban.com/review/14107197/
结尾好评，换我看费费的《爱情神话》也会看不懂加各种吐槽。
关于爱情那些点点讨论，认不认同其实都好，鞋匠那句话说的挺好，没有值不值得，只有喜不喜欢。导演确实是博学多识，文艺范儿举手投足间俯仰皆是，还不忘夹杂点市井气，啥都有一点，疯也是正好，灵也是正好，那些东西看似都是曾见过的，却都不在意料之中。
其实说有多好，并没有那么好，但它带来的那种轻松流畅同时平淡又幽默的感觉在国产电影里是如此稀缺以至于很难讲不好。上海的生活真的很特别，即使拍得如此纽约布鲁克林也毫不违和，但最终的生活的真谛还是上海的。中年女性有这样多样的设定也很难得，还是女导演行啊！就是能不能找个稍微帅点的男的演这种trophy式上海爷叔，比如宁理，徐峥去修鞋（不是
没有爱情，没有神话，有一个美好的略微欧洲化的上海，但并没有因此让人感觉不舒服。在这个插满红旗的地方，难得看到如此特立独行的上海，真美好。
全片沪语，老弄堂，小资情调，海派风情，金句频出。或许有些标签化，有些片面，可两个小时的电影，展现一面已经足够。
2022001 摩登且市井，文艺又生活，一部仅属于上海的城市电影。
夹在一堆上海中年大妈里观影，你别说氛围还真的好哈哈哈哈哈哈哈!好欢乐!
元素多样且不干尬 自我感觉还蛮伍迪艾伦的 所谓爱情神话 就比如说 一切气氛都恰到好处 在这一刻我感觉到很安心 所以我想在此时说爱你 于是爱情就展开了... 不过电影只说了开头没有说结尾 结尾被伍迪艾伦说了 “当爱情结束时你就会告诉自己 那一切不过是回忆....” 如果对你来说爱情是神话，那么分离也是
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