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.
有点浪费一个好题材。拍的不聚焦导致了没有一个主角，每个演员都各司其职完成了表演但彼此没有什么融合，也没有凝聚到某一两个人身上，散而杂乱。甚至到最后有几个人物都没有交代到底怎么样了。
唯一的「敗筆」是萊姆雖被埋，說話依然元氣滿滿～
不明白哪里好看，是我学了假电影，还是日本电影只剩营销吹几把？
妹妹要是能梦里把掳童犯搞成植物人就神作了。
前面先用轰炸错了一个出租车做了一个小影子，再用目睹了这个灾难的小男孩的行动轨迹引出真正的主题建筑，再讲和这个建筑有关系的人和事，这是多么好的叙事手法，再加上特瑞莎修女对宗教的怀疑，这又多么好的一个话题可以展开啊。但是，我必须要说但是，导演在后半部分竟然用了近1/3的篇幅讲救援，这实在是非常俗气的处理手法，让本来可以很好并且深入讨论的命题变成了poverty porn，但是但是但是导演竟然真的这么做了。
一部根据真实历史事件改编的电影，能拍得如此失败，也真是少见。二战结束时，英军的误炸，导致近百人死亡，大多是孩子。如此事件，客观地平铺直叙，也会拍得让人震惊。该片导演却无谓地给故事增添了不少东西，视角又不断地转移，还一味地煽情，影片的叙事弄得乱糟糟的。如无必要，勿增实体。此片导演还真需要认真思考一下奥卡姆剃刀的原理。
“电话是响了，但是没人能听见。除了你……”
根本不能称之为恐怖片……奔着恐怖片的标签去的，结果一坨狗屎。
3.5分，怎么说呢。。。。高情商:是枝裕和本土化做得真好。低情商:感觉这是一部随意一个韩国导演都能导出来的电影。真的没有什么特别，拍的当然不差能看得进去也能同情，但不知道为什么这个故事放到韩国拍就有些矫情。
前年看《真相》惊叹是枝裕和拍法国电影竟然没有水土不服，现在看《掮客》感慨是枝裕和拍韩国电影还是有点一言难尽（可能是我对棒子自带降分滤镜吧）。故事核心还是是枝裕和偏爱的“家庭”戏，节奏缓慢却又能吸引住观众注意力，摩天轮一段已经很动容，“感谢出生”一段简直泪崩，可惜最后剧情急转而下又突兀又理想化，结局着实草率了，留白也不足以拉回。另外中间总有种《mother》即视感。演员都还不错，婴儿演员全场最佳！
兄妹二人小演员都演得很灵，长得也好看，甚至感觉是比《怪奇物语》的老几位强了【此处拉踩】，故事内容其实看简介也很吸引人，可惜表现出来并没有太出色，
太散了，我没看见简介，前半段我都不知道导演具体要说什么样的故事，直到后面炸学校才知道是误伤。
哪怕与付出代价的人共情一秒，也懂得集体主义的胜利不值得欢呼。我们尤其如此。
其實應該給四顆星。整體表現沒有那麽好，但是本片題材不經意沾了當前國際局勢的光，非常討巧。修女主角對上帝是否存在的痛苦思索非常觸動我。
Alex Høgh Andersen真的是颜值和实力兼备的演员
由事件铺开的群像，每个人物都自带张力，但问题是主线又没法聚焦了。两难。
看的好难过，战争中这种惨事儿只能说更多吧…有时候宗教信仰，也是给人个安慰…
与其说这部电影是恐怖片，其实我觉得其实偏悬疑吧，恐怖的氛围是有的，但是导演并没有采用视觉上的惊吓，而是先用前面的剧情让观众对两个小主角产生好感，再趁热打铁，让刚被关进地下室的小男主与恶棍斗智斗勇，这么一个可怜的小帅哥被恶棍关到地下室，你会不他的命运揪心吗？导演正是利用这一点，来对观众造成心理上的冲击。不得不说，斯科特导演确实把观众们的心理玩明白了呀，一亿美元的成绩理所应当。不过缺点我也不得不批评。构图差，配乐差，不能给观众带来视觉效果；小女孩的特殊能力影片没给出解答；剧情实在是太快了，有时让人摸不着头脑，虽然剧本非常一般，但小男孩和霍克的表演深深地强化了影片表达效果，小女孩的演技有待加强哦。这种以小孩子为视角的80’恐怖片永远是我的最爱
妹妹和哥哥一比就知道法师虽然漂亮，输出还得靠物理系
最后一幕的长镜头，我的心随着母亲的表情一同起伏。影后级别的表演。
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