Woody Allen's comedy has always been dark humor related to real life and social reality, and the smooth transitions and contrasts of "Blue Jasmine" greatly enhance the irony effect, and the tragic background is more obvious than ever. .
Let me start by mentioning my favorite name - Blue Jasmine.
First understand it literally, the blue in Blue Jasmine in English has multiple meanings of blue, melancholy and depression. Blue Jasmine, Jasmine's Depressed and Tragic Fate, is far more than just a critical drama. Although on the surface there are quite a few very dramatic jokes in the film, from a macro perspective, what happened to Jasmine also reflects the inescapable fate of people's characters and fate: she loves vanity and tries her best to get rid of the "unworthy" "Go on" own life, but unfortunately I have no equal ability, so I can only end up tragically (oh, in fact, I also live a middle-class life, hehe) - of course, human nature is an objective existence, not the root of the failure or success of things. The reason, but it just made all the trajectories out of control, I guess this is the tragedy and depression that Jasmine really represents.
From the plot of the movie, blue also corresponds to the blue moon mentioned many times in the movie, that is, the song that Jasmine and her ex-husband heard when they first met. Before and after the bankruptcy of the family, Jasmine kept emphasizing the blue moon, in order to strengthen her identity as a person in the upper class, and fantasize about a "decent" life that she is satisfied with. The blue moon is like a symbol. The title uses blue to modify Jasmine. How could it be more coincidental than this! Unfortunately, the reality is unacceptable and must live.
Woody Allen's episodic narratives and transitions have always been superb. The overall structure of the film uses a parallel montage editing method to closely combine the two lines of the present and the past to generate greater emotional impact... but it's so addicting - the play uses similar transitions from reality to memory , starting from the similarities or the same things in reality and the wealthy life in the past, it seems more smooth, such as showing the different life in reality and the past in different houses, such as cutting from the French perfume of the sister waiting for her new boyfriend to the French girl whose ex-husband cheated on Jasmine... The transitions of many similar related objects are smooth and interesting. The story was originally very simple, but such a simple story was shot by Woody Allen, and the emotional impact was maximized, which enhanced the fun of watching the movie.
It has to be said that the charm of the movie is reflected thoroughly~
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