The undoubted road to luxury for the poor

Kraig 2022-03-22 09:01:32

Tell a bitter joke: I have a friend who was originally comfortable and indifferent. When the little girls around her were busy packing themselves with super A goods and cheap overseas shopping brands, she always insisted on comfort and pragmatism. , carrying a cloth bag all the year round, it also shows a bit of detached and different. Later, Cinderella married into a wealthy family. The wealthy material environment made her gradually develop the habit of using luxury goods for daily necessities. At this time, life played a joke on her. The financial turmoil swept the wealth of the entire family. Furthermore, her luxurious heart could never return to its former simplicity.
I think there are very few girls who can withstand the test of "from frugality to luxury" and then "from extravagance to frugality" in life. Of course, this friend of mine is not exempt from the custom. The following plot is really familiar: my A friend began to enter the mode of maintaining a decent life with famous brand fakes. She used her accumulated wealthy experience to select the best quality and most authentic luxury super A goods, and she never tired of it. Friends talked about the high cost performance of luxury fakes, and sincerely appreciated the exquisiteness and greatness of Chinese imitation technology.
My friend's experience was originally worthy of pity, but in the end it became so hypocritical and empty, which made people sigh: it turns out that the truth and hypocrisy of human nature are like two sides of a silver coin. When life is flipped, the truth is made by hypocrisy. on the verge of collapse. Coincidentally, under the lens of "Blue Jasmine", Woody Allen also portrayed a phoenix girl who fell from the clouds and suffered even more vanity and decay. Because she couldn't let go of the high society's drunkenness, and she couldn't face the reality down-to-earth, we are here. After suffering a series of human tragedies such as family bankruptcy, divorce of husband and wife and penniless, the degraded Kuotai easily turned into a diaosi until she had a mental breakdown. The most impressive scene in the film: The Hermes Birkin that Jasmine must carry every time she appears. This bag is used too frequently. At first, it can make people's eyes catch their eyes and shout that the dead camel is bigger than a horse. Later, it gradually became weak, and I felt that the hostess was really hard, and only this bag could support the appearance. Until the last platinum bag was accidentally dropped on the ground, you followed her to the bottom of a heart. What about the platinum bag, it cannot save the fate of the characters.
These two stories reminded me invariably of a sentence in Zweig's biography of Marie Antoinette, the French beheaded queen: She was too young at that time to know all the gifts given by fate, and had already marked the price in secret. . How many people, after easily obtaining the gift of life, completely forget that everything in life requires your efforts and costs; want" compulsion.
I have seen with my own eyes the unscrupulousness of some people in order to buy luxury goods. Some people who are inspirational are just being tough on themselves. In exchange for sports cars, limited-edition bags and jewelry. I can understand that ordinary people want to have a glimpse of the curiosity of the upper class in the pyramid by experiencing some material forms that represent the upper class, but they don’t think that buying one or two luxury items is equivalent to success in life and the hope of entering the upper class. When luxury and counterfeit goods are rampant and savagely growing in the Chinese market, the whole society is using impetuous vanity to show how a society with a sudden surge of hot money after experiencing extreme poverty in material life is carrying out rebound revenge consumption. This is like a female soldier who joined the army in adolescence. After demobilization, she dressed herself up indiscriminately, just to make up for the regret of the incomplete period.
After the film "Blue Jasmine" ruthlessly beat Jasmine from a socialite back to a Phoenix girl, she still kindly gave her another chance to step into the upper class. Of course, this opportunity is still thanks to her frequent outbound Hermes. Birkin, a good horse with a good saddle, and a woman with a good temperament who can wear a limited-edition platinum bag can easily win the favor of a widowed diplomat, but the ending of the story still brutally shattered Jasmine's hopes. What about the Birkin, it couldn't save Jasmine's fate at all. Greed can't change destiny, but you can give it a try and live a serious life.

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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.