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.
演技大于故事，都是好演员，但故事真的太糟糕太一般了
安娜白发T造型比她长发好看太多了！关于母亲的线很喜欢，就是跟人类历史的线有点割裂。
视觉上瓦导从来不会让你失望，依旧灿烂明媚的色彩和阳光；故事上轻描淡写了一段本该沉痛的情节，然后就没有然后了…历史伤疤一条线，也有差口气的感觉，似乎是欲辩已忘言
#venezia78 开幕片 阿尔莫多瓦又进入了一个新的境界。结尾strong! 这种影片很难用分数来评，相比让观众从头嗨到尾，导演对主题表现形式的探索更值得咀嚼。片中既保留又放弃了我们很多熟悉的元素和叙事手法，从感官上不能算巅峰水平，但如此bescheiden, 如此zurückhaltend ，可以说在面对哀伤的历史议题前，阿尔莫多瓦用慈悲的心与对整个职业生涯的颠覆在大银幕上留下一滴眼泪，为我们上了一堂电影教育课。上一部作品与自己和解，这一部与历史交锋。电影，有其专属与特殊的力量。Respect! 本片感官刺激并没有以往作品强，但最后一场戏，颠醒我梦中魂，眼角湿润的同时，想向阿尔莫多瓦献上一吻，他告诉我们，历史、生命、爱是什么，电影是什么。（请不要仅凭简单粗暴的分数评价电影的好坏）
什么都讲了点，但感觉什么都没讲透。佩内洛普真的美
情節劇與考古學紀錄（控訴）的不兼容。所以同樣的劇本，換了導演的名號，真的還會有這麼多好評嗎
把孩子交还给生母，或许呼应着对于历史的重新体认。但无论如何表达，结尾还是突兀了些。
影片最后的政治性冲烂了第二幕的戏剧性；色彩依旧是那么鲜艳；即使是抛除政治性，导演把如此中国戏剧性的梗写的有深度；平行母亲代指的就很多了，女主-女配，女配的妈妈也可以算；女配角莫名超级像《圣母》的女配……
狗日的年轻人，你们对历史只会回答“我从未想过这些问题”；当真相向你们露出它的一角时，你们所怀疑的仅仅是自己是否被绿了，甚至缺乏最基本的常识去理解它；你的愤怒仅限于转身离去，而你们最激烈的反抗，则仅仅是换个发型！
那血脈中流淌的熱度，被疼痛與苦難剝離，被直面與和解追溯。「歷史永遠不會沉默，不論他們如何詆毀，不論他們如何篡改，不論他們如何偽造，人類的歷史都拒絕保持沉默。——愛德華多·加萊亞諾」
唉，这一次，阿莫多瓦的痛感没能触动到我。一如既往很棒的开篇，期间每一帧都像平面设计作业的画面，令人默默震撼的结尾——但失败1⃣️是故事本身构造得太勉强，失败2⃣️是ZZ、历史素材的叠加太勉强。别的不说，女主最初发现不是亲生孩子时，第一反应为啥不是正常人会有的“赶紧去看自己的孩子”、甚至“赶紧换回来”？（她那时还不知另一个孩子猝死）毕竟孩子才几个月大，又不像《如父如子》那样已经共同生活了好多年了。完全不合逻辑啊……
看起来是一个抱错孩子的老故事，但放在寻找记忆的脉络里就有了其隐喻作用。再加上短暂而动荡的同性情节。导演似乎要说，失去性别的任一方都会让血统的传承丢失，而这个小镇的每个女人经历着这一失去。
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巧的是也表达了我近几个月思考的——坦诚的态度与对话、行为真的很能友好解决问题。电影里也是这样的——对孩子真相的坦诚，对历史真相的坦诚面对——谁都没有失去太多，亦或是大家都最大化了结心结。讨论区“我们和母亲的关系，就是我们与世界的关系。”这句话莫名残忍。剧情确实很割裂，会产生“就这？”的心情。本想说因为没经历过战争和不懂他们这段历史，但由于最近战争也在很近地爆发，很难说什么。
不是恐怖片 纯纯超级英雄电影 看到最后电影院的人都跟着一起欢呼起来了 没几个吓人的镜头 但是神经一直紧绷 拍的太好了
3.5，阿莫多瓦驾轻就熟地将巴洛克元素以及女性视角拼贴起来，《平行母亲》却像是一部Atom Egoyan的影片，红色背景之下的鼠标取代了眼睛的反应镜头，家族的创伤历史在照片，电脑显示屏以及作为媒介的基因检测报告中显现，并随着悬疑的反转转向一个对弗朗哥时代乱葬坑的考察进度及其民族志，地景与历史并未闯入两位女主角拟母女/拟恋人的关系之中，而是将创伤熔入情节剧的时间，关于“倒错”的结构，以及girls‘ talking。通过基因，一个父系之外的树状历史得以建立。
我们对下一代的爱，是无私的，是饱含热情的。可我们对上一代的爱，对上上一代的爱，对上上上一代的爱呢？
6.5 太像同人作品，两条线没太大关联，全片浅焦。美术绝佳。
生活的另一种面向，在既定的婚姻规则面前，因为有前辈女性的坚强与努力，所以不会恐惧，而是勇敢地面对自己的生活及种种不确定性。阿尔莫多瓦真是，不动声色，没用什么高超的技巧，反正就是把事儿讲得真诚又得心应手。好几次我们都以为猜到了，没想到一次次的转折让这个我们自以为熟悉的故事框架出现了新的叙事，这就是一种理想情感的可能模型。能让演员演出层次感，真是太厉害了，Ana的反差很大很像当代的小孩16年未成年的话演得是98/99/00的孩子吧，很有时代面貌，阿老头的观察力很可以了。
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