A woman's ending is self-inflicted

Cristobal 2022-04-22 07:01:06

Another masterpiece from Woody Allen in 2013. Some regret Woody Allen did not continue to tell the story of Europe.

The music at the beginning of the film hints at the arrival of old Woody, and the same chatter and chatter that began on the plane as "Love in Rome" released last year. The old man is so confident that he is not afraid that the audience will feel the same, and he boldly uses the same elements every time.

I thought Jasmine was chatting with the wife next door, but she was the only one who was talking from beginning to end, and this time the protagonist of the chatter was replaced by Cate. And then the casual "Oh, my suitcase is here, that Louis Vuitton" when it comes to picking up luggage. Haha, is it a LV soft ad?

Carrying a Hermès Birkin handbag, wearing a classic white Chanel jacket, a Hermès silk scarf floating freely on the handbag, and a Fendi wallet that was inadvertent when picking up a tip, even if you have no money, you have to take the first class cabin. The key is that all the clothes are the best. The iconic Logo, just like people who are afraid that people will not recognize them when they first add luxury goods, must choose the most iconic pattern.

Jasmine was born into a poor family. He met a local tyrant husband while he was studying at Boston University. He dropped out of school and got married and entered the upper class society. Since then, his husband has been engaged in high-level financial fraud work. Behind his noble and considerate behavior is the husband's continuous emotional deception and Lie, when her husband had a showdown about starting a new life with a French Teenager, she called the FBI. Her husband committed suicide in prison, and after falling from a height, she also became crazy and suffered from depression. The story starts here.

If the film develops towards how inspirational women struggle against adversity, it is not an old man. It certainly didn't live up to my expectations.

Recently, I have watched a lot of films with two parallel narratives. It seems simple, but it tests the director's skills. And the old man's two-line narration did not use a voice-over, which is obviously more difficult to control.

This time, the old man set his sights on the upper class in New York, and expressed the style of the middle class after entering the upper class through the heroine's mouth. More importantly, the old man expressed the middle class's yearning for the upper class incisively and vividly. There is a joke about Park Avenue moving to Brooklyn, there is the irony that the logo is piled up all over the body, and there is the vanity of the first-class cabin who can't even pay the rent. At the same time, he also quietly ridiculed the financial giants of Wall Street.

In fact, what kind of life you want is predestined, and what kind of person you choose is the life you want. Jasmine doesn't know about her husband's lie, but she doesn't know that lying involves emotional deception. In other words, isn't Jasmine full of lies? He told his girlfriend that his brother-in-law was an architectural designer, but in the end, he said that it was the construction company who did chores. Telling a lie a thousand times does not become the truth, but the world she is immersed in lies does not know herself, and the bystander is like a mirror. I thought she would definitely change when she fell, but who knew that lying had already become a habit.

It's just that she didn't wake up after two big ups and downs, and continued to dream beautiful dreams. She was homeless but still missed the black dress of Dior on the Champs-Elysees.

Values ​​used to be so easily influenced by those close to them. Simple and straightforward Ginger's simple and beautiful life has quietly changed since the arrival of his sister Jasmine. It didn't take long for him to like and admire his fiancé to not being used to it. After being influenced by her sister, she hoped to change her fate with a man, but was ruthlessly deceived by a married man, but she was sober and self-aware that she stopped in time.

Yesterday, my best friend said happily, look, we are always influencing each other positively. In fact, she forgot that we also influenced each other negatively. Two people who are in a hurry always become more impatient and petty when they are together, but we are lucky Each other has been reflecting and progressing. I believe that if we were together now, we would not be angry with each other for bickering with each other.

If you lie, don't blame everyone you meet for lying. It's that simple.

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Blue Jasmine quotes

  • [last lines]

    Jasmine: [talking to herself] It's fraught with peril. They gossip, you know, they talk. I saw Danny. Yes, did I tell you? He's getting married. A weekend in Palm Beach means I can wear... what could I wear? I can wear the Dior dress I bought in Paris. Yes, my black dress. Well, Hal always used to surprise me with jewelry. Extravagant pieces. I think he used to buy them at auction. It's so obvious what you're doing. You think I don't know. French au pair.

    [Blue Moon begins playing]

    Jasmine: This was playing on the Vineyard. Blue Moon. I used to know the words. I knew the words. Now they're all a jumble.

  • Jasmine: Tip big boys, tip big because you get good service and they count on tips.