Her fragility is too fragile

Lorna 2021-11-24 08:01:24

At the beginning, this film reminded me of Tennessee Williams’ "A Streetcar Named Desire". She was also a slightly neurotic, pretentious sister. She was very much before she had to come to take refuge because of the drastic changes in reality/materiality. Sneezing sister/girlfriend.
I use a semicolon to show their relationship with another important female character in the film. If the role of sister not only carries a certain ethical meaning, but also has a certain emotional meaning, then they have never regarded that ordinary The vulgar, vulgar, and ugly women are in sight.
What they yearn for is another kind of life, glamorous and decent, looking upright under the sun, including the beauty and elegance of material society. It’s easy for us to think of the movie "Waiting for the Wind", which had high hopes some time ago but had a poor box office. The only difference is that in "Blue Jasmine", Jasmine has been dragged from his dream, while Cheng Tianshuang has never Step into living that kind of life.
Woody Allen’s reference is too much, and the scarcity of security has led to an infinite desire for material culture. In fact, it is difficult for me to escape.
Therefore, I was uncomfortable watching the first half of the film, and Jasmine's anxiety made me inexplicably anxious. The film continues to develop. The boring reception work of the dentist clinic, the vulgar boyfriend with strong hormonal secretion in the younger sister, the noisy nephew, the declining concentration, and the difficult adult courses to integrate into, Jasmine's life completely sinks into a trough, and even reminds me of it. With a sentence describing the Greek tragedy in the university's "History of Western Literature" class, we can only accept the things that cannot be changed. Destiny is like a big car, rolling over with rumblings.
But if you think about it carefully, Jasmine's tragedy may not be as painful as she thought. Even if she has fallen to the bottom, at least she is still pretty, and she is covered in blingbling outfits. Just as she can easily subdue a diplomat, except for this person, she will definitely be able to subdue the next one.
Similarly, if she studies hard and lives hard, although she may not be able to return to the previous situation, it shouldn't be a problem to live decently and down-to-earth with her vision and perspective.
The problem with Jasmine is that she puts her sense of security on others from beginning to end. Ginger once said that in the face of things she doesn't want to know, she is good at closing one eye. Jasmine bet all his glory and decency on his rich and capable husband. A parasite will not mind sharing it with others, as long as it can give her a decent appearance. So she turned a deaf ear to the many small three and four.
But when her husband said that he was in love with the nanny and wanted to divorce her, she almost collapsed in grief. Without the host, the life of the parasite ceased to exist. In grief and anger, she took the initiative to expose her husband.
This reminds me of a post about marriage. Someone said that a woman must have her own career and life. In this way, when a man proposes to break up with her, she will suffer, but her world will not collapse.

People can fall in love with a type of person rather than a person. In the final analysis, Jasmine's final collapse is not because her pain is too painful, but because her fragility is too fragile.

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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.