Vanity is a major element of human progress

Uriah 2022-04-20 09:01:31

I watched the movie Blue Jasmine about four years late.

Three years ago, in the first test of Chinese drama, I told my teacher that my favorite director was Woody Allen. The teacher asked: "Have you seen Bullets Over Broadway?" "No", "What about "Blue Jasmine"", and my inner monologue was "Damn, I haven't seen it again! But then again, I haven't seen it. It's over?" So I said that I had seen it, but I didn't like it, because I didn't like people like Cate Blanchett in the play. Luckily, I passed the test and passed the first test. Now that I think about it, I also watched seven or eight of Woody Allen's most highly rated movies. How dare I say that Woody Allen is my favorite. It's also a vanity. After all, Woody Allen is a delicate one. choose.

After watching the movie, I thought, Blanchett must win a golden statue for this performance. I searched and searched for the award, and I didn't expect that Sally Hawkins also won it. It is really worth recalling his acting skills as a female supporting role. , played the image of a cowardly woman to the extreme, especially compared with Blanchett, but I still think Blanchett's crazy performance is better.

It's still the standard Woody Allen nagging, the difference is that the nagging is no longer a New York intellectual, but a New York socialite. What has also changed is the narrative structure. This is the first time I have seen the old man's two-line narrative, a narrative similar to flashbacks or stream of consciousness, which clearly explains the life experience of this New York lady, and makes it easier to compare through constant comparisons. People understand her madness now. What hasn't changed is the jazz, the movie ends quietly in the blue moon, leaving Blanchett to linger on the bench, pity? I really don't.

Is it a satire of women? What I love more is a mockery of human nature. At the end of the play, the heroine and her son revealed the final truth to everyone. It turns out that they already knew that Hal was a liar, but they still wanted to choose the rich life. It is true that if it were me, I would have made the same choice, regardless of the sage’s argument, but you and I both know that facing this kind of thing, everyone’s heart is the same.

In fact, I always thought that diplomats would also be liars. Maybe I was too cruel or too cliché. The little old man's choice was more ingenious, making Blanchett fail at the door and back to a life of talking to himself, even if he told his sister that he was going to Vienna, which was his last and eternal Dignity and vanity.

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Blue Jasmine quotes

  • Dr. Flicker: Have you ever gotten high on nitrous oxide?

    Jasmine: No.

    Dr. Flicker: It would remove your inhibitions.

    Jasmine: I don't really have any inhibitions.

  • Jasmine: Can you please not fight in here? I don't think I can take it. For some reason, my Xanax isn't kicking in.