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.
镜头晃得要把我脑浆摇出来了。一位愚蠢邪恶女巫相当正常人最后做了妈妈的成长史……我愿称这类影片为邪典影片中的青春疼痛非主流，看得我一头雾水
把旁白都删了能给四星。旁白的矫揉造作让我感到极其不适。旁白内容的主旨跟故事设定是也割裂的，不协调感让我无法沉浸于这个故事。恐怖片应该是跟各类主义最远的类型电影，我希望这种恐怖片越来越少，最好没有。
因为Noomi Rapace看的。好特别的电影，女性的凝视，多重角度，人应该为自己而活，还是卑微的苟活？！最后的但是…什么意思…我还需要时间想一想🤔️
“為什麼你可以這麼輕鬆得做到了？而我卻一直孤單。”
还挺新鲜的，诗意独白下的杀人女巫。最大的巧妙之处在于年轻女巫的心智还在少儿时期，因此观众内心对少不更事的宽容战胜了其出于对生活的好奇心而犯下的罪行（论叙事的重要性），从而全片的主题变为了一个少女的认知成长史。只是费了这么大的劲来说这么一个故事、来赞美“爱”真的有必要吗？
“为什么对你来说这么简单” “然而 然而”
稳扎稳打讲了一个“特殊病例”故事，徐玄振把由强到弱、病中无硬汉的角色转变过渡的非常好。
很喜欢，一边显现对生命的探索一边展现女性成长的艰辛，也有母亲对女儿式的（老女巫对新女巫）扭曲的情感：你的女巫生命是我给予的，你必须听我的，你会同我一样被火烧，你不会更好，你怎么可以更好？最后她问她，也是问天：为什么一切对你来说就这么简单？最终也合理地完成了终结和传承。想起押井守对生命的理解，就是死亡和繁衍。世界是灼烧着的，然而，然而……
节奏很慢，但却不觉得囧长，她是女巫，但那些人比女巫还危险
6.5分。抱着看一部精彩的恐怖片的心态，结果又是一部文艺片，前一个小时太文艺了，杀人都这么有诗意，不时的快进⏩我真的受不了这种慢摇慢摇加背景音乐要死不活的节奏。终于到后面有所反转，人性与爱阻止了魔咒继续
这个世界令人恶心，深恶痛绝
止于很美的画面和表演，矫情的台词和低幼的俗套故事组成了影片的其余部分。如果把它当民俗怪谈片看，那妖物该有妖性，以本片的野心，对这种妖性的开发却仅限于爪子加换皮功能和呓语式的碎碎念，所有思考和行为模式都是人的，就比《哭声》和《南巫》《塔巴德》之类的设定差了太多。如果当鬼怪爱情文艺片看，又欠缺《皮囊之下》的暗郁或者《唯爱永生》的范式。如果作为女性主义寓言片看......我根本看不出它寓言了啥。
一时兴起凌晨看恐怖片 发现是邪性惊悚文艺片，间歇让我想起充满宗教神性的《幸福的拉扎罗》。
披着恐怖外衣的文艺片，奔着恐怖看这部电影只能是失望，文艺青年们可能看到落泪，而我只有昏昏欲睡。
那个满是被爱包围的小伙子 我感受过
韩国电影题材都是很突出
生肉，没有台词加持，使得这部风格另类的“恐怖”电影观感不是特别投入，有不少堪比生吃的内脏血腥场面，但是这部有点像抒情散文，没有很密集的剧情，或者恐怖场景，反而被很多空境淡化。这种类型不是很能接受。
30几岁就得这种病 有点尴尬
没想到是以巫女的视角看人类的悲喜，不断转换身份之间，竟然有点泰伦斯马力克的味道，本以为是一部氛围独特的恐怖片，没想到基本算一步文艺片了，3星半
看的时候想到了马力克的《生命之树》。
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