Should be painful.
Two months ago, she was the wife of a millionaire, wearing a Chanel coat, a Dior dress, and a Hermès bag, and went to jewelry stores across Europe. Two months later, it was discovered that her husband was cheating, and she was imprisoned by reporting illegal transactions, and her son ran away from home. Overnight, she became nothing.
Then she went to join her sister, still in first class.
She is "Blue Jasmine".
The film "Blue Jasmine" is a feature film directed by Woody Allen and starring Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins and Alec Baldwin. The film was released in the United States on July 26, 2013.
The film tells the story of a lonely celebrity who has gone bankrupt, her husband committed suicide, and her stepson runs away, and moves to her estranged sister's San Francisco home to start a new life.
Just like a blues jazz with a hint of melancholy in a lazy and quiet, "Blue Jasmine" allows the audience to appreciate the warmth and coldness of the world in the ordinary world.
This story is about women, about men, about the middle class, and about life.
Like any Woody Allen movie without jazz, "Blue Jasmine" opens with a pitch-shifting blues. This sets the tone of the film right from the start. Or rather, it hints at the ill-fated life and complex character of the heroine Jasmine.
Jasmine's performance in the opening scene reflects the "peculiarity" of this character. Designer jewelry, clothes, bags, first class, and elegant conversation with people. But "the style of painting changed," an old man said she was talking to herself. A female character with a bright but neurotic appearance is perfectly portrayed in this way.
Here I also have to confess to Cate Blanchett, in the whole film, every stage of the performance is properly handled. Before bankruptcy, his dignified and beautiful face was full of selfishness and arrogance. Later, the standard of living plummeted: she added a few more uneasiness to the haggard. Coupled with her various body movements, her hands trembling slightly when she was agitated, and her small gestures such as helping her forehead helplessly, all these small movements gave Jasmine's character vitality.
It is said that Woody Allen was on the set, giving Blanchett a lot of freedom to play, many scenes, and even no lines, but let Blanchett play freely on the set. Brantche, who has a lot of stage performance experience, also lived up to expectations and contributed two classic inner monologues.
In March 2014, Blanchett won the 86th Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as "Jasmine".
The narrative of the film adopts the method of two timelines, and the two lines are brought into each other. This clever narration greatly enhances the drama of the film.
The interweaving of the two lines makes the plot appear much fuller, and it is also convenient to adjust the rhythm of the film, so that the audience can be mobilized again when they are tired.
Just imagine, if the plot went down step by step from the beginning, a lady, "duang", ran out of money, and then defected to her sister. So will it be less attractive? Everyone has a little bit of a peek at the psychology of the rich, and we'd love to see it. What about the poor? How much patience will the audience have after that twist? You know, this is a Woody Allen movie. There are undercurrents of life and people's hearts after the flashy. This is not "My First Half of Life" (I said the one from Beijing Satellite TV), and it is not an idol drama.
The structure of the film is a good solution to this problem. For the audience, Jasmine's two lives contain different tastes, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty. Only when the two are combined can a balance be achieved.
The ubiquitous contrasts in the film not only tell the story, but also form a competition and cooperation relationship.
At the beginning of the period, the life of Jasmine and Jin Jie was one heaven and one underground. Later, Jasmine's own life was very different from that before bankruptcy. Coupled with the interspersed story lines, various contrasts continue to appear in the film. Two of them are amazing. One is the change in Jasmine's attitude when she sees Ginger again. Another is the change after Molly's lie was exposed in front of diplomats. With the advancement of these contrasts and contradictions, the plot continues to move forward.
The climax of the film is the climax and the end. Not saying that because I'm crazy. First of all, the climax is about the breakdown of the relationship between Jasmine and the diplomat, the two had a big fight, and then Jasmine met her stepson. At this time, the audience also learned the truth with the development of the plot (Jasmine reported her husband to jail). What is your greatest feeling at this moment? Yes, she is finished, and the last straw is gone. It is completely over now. In contrast, arguing with his sister in the back, talking to himself on the bench in front of strangers, all became the aftermath of the abrupt end. This kind of treatment amplifies the pain of the protagonist, and continues to lengthen, until the audience sighs in the last confession.
Aside from the narrative structure, the story of "Blue Jasmine" is also attractive. The story, also known as "If Life Deceives You", calmly unfolds for you the hidden things in life.
If life deceives you, don't be sad, don't be discouraged, just remember, it will continue to deceive you.
Life is like a stage play, and each of us is a clown dancing on it.
Jasmine is always bright and beautiful, and her attitude when shopping is even more "heartbeat". Beneath this appearance, Jasmine's husband's derailment history is an absurd and comedic existence.
When all of this ceased to exist, Jasmine was still beautiful and took it as her duty to fish for her husband-in-law. We have to marvel at how quickly she recovered. In her world, being a woman must be graceful.
In that regard, this is an inspirational film. But again, this is not an urban emotional idol drama. In the end, Jasmine's lie was exposed, she had a big quarrel with her sister, rushed out the door, and sat on the bench muttering to herself.
How, unexpected but reasonable.
We always want to live a good life, so that gradually we become self-deceiving. In the end, we will find that life is like this, and whatever you see, whether happy, sad or deceitful, is what it is. We will all play our part on such a stage and try to survive.
It is sung like this in the classic Japanese drama "Quartet", "Adults keep secrets". What's the secret? That's their own secret.
So you see, this movie, how like life itself.
From "Match Point" to "Midnight in Barcelona", to "Midnight in Paris" and "Love in Rome", Woody Allen's films always tell one story after another quietly.
"Blue Jasmine" also has all the Woody Allen stuff, jazz, a beautiful cafe, all kinds of artistic scenes, literary lines, and a bit of a nervous character. All of this makes this melancholy film look like a work of literature.
Almost forgot, this gentleman is 82 years old.
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