(Read it again in 2020, and write a new one)
Woody Allen can always create a bunch of troubles and problems, and never get rid of them. Love in the city, women, life can look fancy and turn into a mess
Jasmine lives a luxurious high-class life in New York, including parties, sports, spas, charity evenings, shopping, afternoon tea, jewelry, and antique cars. She seems to be born like this, but it's all because of her encounter with her rich husband. She kept reminiscing about the scene when they met. The song "Blue Moon" seemed to have a feeling that it would disappear at any time.
Jasmine was born in a foster family, and she felt inferior to her life experience deep in her heart. She was unwilling to see her sister and her husband, who were also in the foster family. She deliberately avoided making a clear relationship to escape her past and heart. Her full body of designer clothes, jewelry and bags are the soul she has never placed in. She has no sense of security in loving her, but the contradiction is that she seems to trust her husband so much that her life is entirely on her man until she finds out that he cheated, more than one, more than a year, and everyone around her. know except her.
Her husband told her that this time was different. He was serious. When he was about to divorce, Jasmine completely collapsed and fell to the bottom. She seemed to be avoiding this day, but she had to face it.
She reported to the FBI that her husband committed suicide after being caught because of financial problems. The company went bankrupt and the property was liquidated. She moved to her sister's house in poverty.
In the bad but real life of her sister, she is unwilling to face the reality, preferring to live in the fancy and illusory past, she disguise herself, she is unwilling to admit poverty, and she is unwilling to face the noisy life. The only two expensive clothes and a Hermès bag are her everyday clothes. She swayed between fantasy and reality.
This is the mess Woody Allen has left, with no answers, no direction, and the lives of countless people.
The film is a narrative of flashbacks and episodes, using the memories of Jasmine's mental illness after taking medicine again and again to tell the story of her past little by little, and explain little by little why she became who she is now.
Cate Blanchett's acting skills are outstanding in this play, and the eye is drawn to her all the time. Whether she is elegant, down-to-earth, down-to-earth, down-to-earth, vanity, and collapse, Woody Allen's portrayal of characters is very deep and full, and all the characters' actions and words are very reasonable. There are also many portrayals of cities, New York, San Francisco, Paris.
Like this funny old man, like a bystander of urban love, playful and indifferent.
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