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.
压抑冷漠已经无法再爱的男主的人生最初底色竟也是纯情少男少女的戏码，那时他拥有两情相悦的爱人，拥有几个好朋友，工作还不是那么一成不变令人窒息。生活从来不会因为两人合拍，就让他们变得更顺风顺水战无不胜。生活残酷的地方在于，它远比两个人的相处要深远复杂得多。(时间倒退到与初恋女友第一次亲密之时，那份腼腆让人心动
典型的关于人生与成长的故事。
电影后劲还是很足的。虽然但是，我居然还挺想看东出昌大多演一点电影。
《薄荷糖》杀向《恋人们》。成也败也片名直接延用原作。去你的幸福像花儿一样，都犯二谁比谁更高。
★★☆ ……不抽菸不嗑藥不嫖不出軌的人生就太普通了是嗎
普通得，久久没办法呼吸。
怎么哪哪都有东出昌大，脏眼睛🙄️ 好久没收到过手写信件了，有个笔友还是挺幸福的
导演本人也比照片胖一点，看起来非常“普通”。
《薄荷糖》杀向《恋人们》。成也败也片名直接延用原作。去你的幸福像花儿一样，都犯二谁比谁更高。
这种倒叙想起李沧东的 薄荷糖 ，那部电影在说回望人生我们何以至此，这一部像是在说看看我们普普通通的人生，被生活紧裹住的人生，记忆里多么弥足珍贵难以忘记的人啊、事啊，那些受过的耻辱、快乐和遗憾，不过都是现在简简单单的一句“很普通啊”。无法成为大人的人，大概是百分之八十的垃圾和百分之二十中那百分之一的不谙世事的人吧。
但是，那又有什么关系呢？纵使人生总是“平凡而普通”的，可只有我们自己会知道，那些经历过的人和事，那些生命中我们所有遭遇的快乐和悲伤，最终会在我们的身体内幻化成一个永远年轻且独一无二的美好的自己，而它，则会指引我们能够永远充满希望的继续走下去
很适合现在的我观看。究竟要如何接受自己的普通。“搭上计程车回到现实吧”，可是计程车上又放起了曾经的歌。
没有融入到情绪里，倒叙的线索，男主前后的反差还蛮明显的。
我在高兴时，会觉得很难过。
无论是爱，还是有趣什么的，曾经拥有的这些都会失去的。
十分钟 一度以为我下错了电影🙉就这样吧，以后有时间再看
road trip的蓝绿色小车 下车后的笑容 & love hotel的星空房 第一次的腼腆和心跳 很喜欢片尾曲
从导演角度来说，景别极其尴尬。摄影一股廉价的棚味儿，下雨那场内景简直了，很难让人信服。
与桃花期相比这部更加写实，森山未来以致我们从踏入社会情窦初开到找寻激情再到谈婚论嫁。俗人都是普通的，当你回过神来已经在不经意间变成了最不想变成的大人。无论是组织家庭生儿育女也好，变成独身渣男女也好。无法改变到是我们都只能变成普通人，一名俗人。
“我们总是在逃避中虚度年华，那些曾经的经历留下的只有疤痕。”
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