Review of Blue Jasmine (2013) by Adnan_Soysal — 14 Oct 2020

This is a refined movie with sharp Woody Allen style.

Its shooting style is like someone on the scene shooting casually.

This engages the viewer and makes it a real joy. Yet all the scenes, dialogues are intensely psychological,This is a refined movie with sharp Woody Allen style.

Its shooting style is like someone on the scene shooting casually.

This engages the viewer and makes it a real joy.

Yet all the scenes, dialogues are intensely psychological, philosophical, tragic-comic.

Jasmine has a great need to show off that she has a high end life style.

And she is just divorced from a rich man, and returns to her poor sister without money.

She and her sister are both adapted by the same family.

And both of the are originally from different parents.

Her beauty appears to had enabled her to marry rich man. But now she is back to poor days.

Although it looks like she is a psychopath with a great need to show off, she is also victim of her social surrounding, society.

She is suffering to make decision among three options for her life.

- Satisfying her immediate needs with a routine simple work, having a basic life.

- By using her charm marrying a rich man for a fancy life .

- Following her dream of being an interior decorator with hard work.

She is suffering these paradoxes because her immediate poor environment keeps advising her just get a routine job and stay alive.

On the other hand, in a party she meets with a diplomat who is planning to be senator in the future. And he wants to marry her.

So she is failing to resist her environment destroying dreams that demand hard working.

Woody Allen presentation of this paradox is so sublime.

Leading actress and everyone in this movie performed so real, so good.