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.
一个想要包涵西班牙血腥历史的雄心勃勃故事，可以被阿莫多瓦拍成这样，你就知道一个好的导演艺术家没有什么是做不到的，只要他有表达的冲动，他就有艺术的角度和巧思。女主角佩内洛普·克鲁兹奉献了充满血肉却又令人心碎的母亲形象，她的孩子被抱错了，又猝死了，而她怀中婴儿的母亲是个未成年的少女，她又爱上了她，这复杂纠葛的关系如此令人震惊，在片中却能如此顺理成章，使人陷入情爱和母爱双重折磨之中。这失去孩子的母亲，大概也象征着失去了一段血腥历史的真正的西班牙，而那个未成年母亲的残缺处，则意味着她就是那遗忘历史的新时代的人间化身。阿莫多瓦在人与人的关系与情绪的表达上已经到达大巧若拙的境界，看着平铺直叙，其实全是了不起的掌控力。它虽没有《痛苦与荣耀》般摧心，但小情感和大情感结合能做到如此百折千回真是腕力不凡。
有点疑惑女主角知道孩子错换以后，却没有马上想换回的心情，虽然之间培养了情感，毕竟才是一个几个月大的婴儿，情感深到胜过血缘？不是很明白。等她想明白时却又换不回来了，最后还是她自己失去了孩子。孩子身份的故事和开头她和男友为了父亲那一辈的最后的命运来个证明的那个故事似乎有关联，涉及到身份问题，多少年过去要有真相要有说法，两者之间似乎对应不是很明显。总之很一般的一部电影。
错换婴儿与发掘遗骸的两条线有些分裂，因此结尾上升到反思战争伤痛与人类历史的层面上，情感力度也不够。佩内洛普的表演为电影增光添彩。
这个走向也是神奇，原以为是一出狗血大剧，没想到回到历史上来了，真相与和解，尊严与荣耀，老导演心态平和得很啊……
海报牛x！阿莫多瓦永远slay！/ 跳到历史那部分好像有些奇怪，其他就都挺狗血的，还不如之前的作品来得自然。
寻根主题首尾呼应，中间大段关于单身母亲的故事，最后的结语又落在了寻根主题上，把寻根和单身母亲的主题放在一起显得割裂，没有连接性，而以标题来看，应该属于女性主题的议题，非要扯上女性亲属念念不忘的寻爹情节，是否过于爹味？阿莫多瓦的电影特点在于强戏剧性，各种不可思议的情节都能糅合在一起，更像电视剧，当安娜以铁T造型再出场的时候，我就知道她们必有一炮，当看到孩子明显不像的时候，我就知道会是对调
emotional*新生命和逝去生命完成了第一次的面对面，虽然乱葬岗故事线不知道怎么插入，放在母亲们的故事还是很割裂（
依旧是很阿莫多瓦的一部电影。但实在是让我意想不到的是他居然在其中安排了Les的情节着实让我猝不及防。
有点失望。抱错娃的两个女人
76/100。总的来说还是不错的，但是相对于前作《痛苦与荣耀》静水深流中传递出的纯粹真情，本片似乎显得稍有做作了，一贯的阿莫多瓦风格之下，他通过串联起两个母亲的矛盾与冲突的故事来体现常见的女性故事叙述的主体似乎不是那么让人信服，而对于西班牙惨痛历史的加入虽然与大背景产生了一种暗处的互文，在某种程度上可以理解到，但实在还是有些游离感存在。本片的成功要素显然在于佩内洛普·克鲁兹的精彩表演，在剧本设置出的需要她传达各种不同情绪的情节中，她总是那么地平稳自然，将女性面对各种状况时的镇定自若、惶惶不安或者是悲苦惆怅都呈现得淋漓尽致。
剧本问题有点大，如此黏合两个故事的结果就是两个故事都讲不好：当下的故事狗血；历史的故事空洞无力，缺少了点厚重。这部从剧本到布景到镜头都不够精细，有点像赶工之作。
3.5，历史部分有割裂之感，有点莫名其妙，如果融合得好，将是一部杰作。
女性叙事+经典多线剧情，尽管全西语无字幕，但还是比想象中容易理解。不过居然还加入了lesbian戏码是我没想到的……
【20220529】4星或许稍多，毕竟不是阿莫多瓦最好的作品（甚至没有接近），可是依然骗得到眼泪。最近开始着迷阿莫多瓦，他的作品太温柔了，在钢筋水泥的世界里需要些柔软的承接。香港的翻译叫做“谁和谁共母”，本质上是一个基因溯源的故事--其实和片中的考古挖掘祖辈乱葬墓也是平行主线。影片结局的态度是，追根溯源是人的天性，所以历史不会被以往。This seems gratuitous, but serves as a universal value. 篡改历史和事实得到的，只能是扭曲和变态的果实。
快别说了前后情节割裂、强行政治化了。先辈的苦难会刻在后代的基因里并投射在此后生活的每一天，而每一天都关乎政治，就像那个夭折的婴儿。
克鲁兹真美。阿莫多瓦还是好好讲他的非常态人情关系比较好，硬要和历史作互文，感觉有点生硬。
至于克鲁兹的演技么，实在没啥好说的，已经想不出啥精巧的语言去夸赞她了。但其中也看出了一种“美人迟暮”的感觉，欸。
3.5 感受到了历史部分的提升 可是两个女人之间......
两条情节线也几乎是平行的，但是我至少很爱其中一条
两条平行的故事线，一个对乱葬岗的挖掘和对历史的回顾，一个是两个抱错小孩的母亲的纠葛，将母亲这一主题上升到国家历史层面多少有些刻意，但又算始终契合整体脉络。交错的人生未来，殊途同归的历史根源。Penélope Cruz真是超美！
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