I have to praise Cate Blanchett's acting skills, she is like a lonely jasmine, exuding a faint fragrance, but withering quickly. I love this tragic character more than the film itself. She managed to give the character a blighted soul. Actress Cate Blanchett also won the Best Actress Award at the 86th Academy Awards.
I am not a Woody Allen fan, but I am deeply impressed by the temperament of his films. His fragmented narrative fleshes out how a stubborn and vain woman struggles in the quagmire of reality. Real life is so cruel, the life you were proud of yesterday, today does not belong to you at all, this kind of calm transition without any decoration is the most cruel, yesterday's sunshine was as bright as today's, but today's one With a burning sensation, Jasmine, who experienced family bankruptcy, ushered in a completely different life trajectory.
Prominent identity and status, elegant and decent behavior, happy marriage, Jasmine introduces herself with pride at the beginning of the film, and turns to the situation of talking to herself, which directly casts a haze on the character and fate of the characters. The old and new stories unfold almost in parallel, and the fate of the heroine is also peeled off layer by layer. Rich husband Hal is jailed for business fraud, and she has to live with her sister at her sister's home in San Francisco. On the brink of mental collapse, this woman who pretended to be strong was still talking about the past sweetness with her husband Hal over and over again. This poor woman sees marriage as her greatest achievement, and not long ago, her Howl betrayed her.
I admire Woody Allen's character setting for the heroine. He wrote and directed it and gave this character the greatest development space. The character is full and vivid. She was obviously adopted by an ordinary family, and she never forgets to show the tune of a high-class lady at all times. She is penniless but still carries LV bags in the first-class cabin of the plane. Even if she used to sit in a luxury house, the visit of her sister's family will make her Very uncomfortable. At the same time, Jasmine is a woman who is constantly fighting against fate. She has excellent grades but chooses to drop out of college to marry into a wealthy family, so that she can enter and exit the upper-class social circle. Now that everything has hit rock bottom, in order to survive as a successful and decent interior designer one day, she began to study computer courses in adult education, but found that it is so difficult for her to change her fate by going to school, for living and tuition fees. She had to accept a job as a front desk nurse in a private hospital, only to be sexually harassed by a doctor. A gold worshiper who was born from a commoner and yearns for a high-quality life in the upper class was still photographed by Woody Allen.
A woman like Jasmine will never be willing to live a life of ordinary people and grassroots, and will always meet the second rich and handsome in her life. A diplomat she met at a party launched a pursuit attack on Jasmine, who had outstanding dress taste. She seemed to see the light of day. Under the circumstance of concealing her ex-husband's experience of committing suicide by defrauding her ex-husband, she disguised herself as an interior designer. The two fell in love quickly warming up. It seemed that everything was perfect, Jasmine seemed to have grabbed the only life-saving straw in front of her eyes, and this man could give her everything she longed for immediately and return to the enviable high society. At this time, the appearance of the younger sister's ex-husband broke Jasmine's sweet dream, and everything returned to its original point.
When Jasmine was in a trance, she was always talking about her husband Hal's goodness, how romantic and how to have status, and went back to the past in fragments. She was also sitting among the ladies chatting about Hal, chatting and laughing. It seemed that Hal was the most precious to Jasmine. The director has been laying a foreshadowing, what is the reason why such a perfect family in Jasmine's mouth will come to an end? What brought such an arrogant woman to the brink of a nervous breakdown?
Hal's infidelity may have been foreseen during the film's development. Several women related to their life and career appeared inadvertently before and after the film, and they were not overly portrayed, but were very common explanations. But Jasmine's behavior of calling the police was very unexpected, and even in the end, Woody Allen had no arrangements for this woman. The whole film is a quiet narration of the great joy, great sorrow, cruelty and sadness experienced by a character.
Jasmine's arrogance is as low as dust. In the upper class, she pretends to be happy. In the plain and grass-roots world, she habitually disguises herself. It is her arrogance that drives herself crazy. would really lose control. I don't agree with the definition of self-inflicted, in an out of control marriage she has no choice, she can choose not to report Hal, but it turns out that Hal still won't choose her. At some point in her life her life had turned, and all her pride had collapsed the moment Hal admitted to cheating.
Woody Allen didn't come to a conclusion or promise Molly a future, a tragic opening, a sad ending. He did not criticize Jasmine's choice. Maybe each of us is an actor in life. Living in the moment, you just need to ask yourself sincerely, are you happy?
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