Blue jasmine looks like woody at first glance? Allen's version of The First Half of My Life. The beautiful and rich heroine suffered from divorce and bankruptcy, received vocational training, learned to be a clerk, and was teased by all kinds of unreliable men. When she meets Gao Fushuai, she will live a happy life ... However, this is not the case at all. In the world of popular novels, Yi Shu is sharp and cruel, but in Woody? In front of Allen, she is just dreamy and gentle-Woody? Allen's satire is indifferent, just like he asked Kate? Blanchett wore wet makeup and her hair trembled in the wind. He accurately described the whole picture of a woman who fell from the top of society.
As the absolute protagonist of the film, Molly's protagonist is, of course, the vanity and snobbery of a woman who has entered the upper class from an ordinary family (adopted son, not so lucky). From the information in the film, she met Gao Fushuai's husband when she was studying, and then dropped out of school to get married, starting a new chapter in her life, and her arrogance and indifference became uncontrollable. She and Jiang are adopted daughters, but as sisters, even if they are not sisters, their feelings for them are really limited. Before Molly went bankrupt, when she saw Ginger and his wife visiting new york, she was not surprised but scared. Woody made a sharp contrast between the two sisters with a small bridge. Molly refused the dinner invitation of her sister and her husband many times with an embarrassed expression, but her sister simply said, "Next week is your birthday. Anyway, let's treat you to a meal. " Molly had to insincerely suggest several restaurants, then secretly complained to her husband with a sad face, "Oh, my God, we have to invite them to my birthday party!" " "After my sister and husband entrusted Hal with the investment, Molly seemed to show a little affection and asked Hal in the bathroom," You will help them make money, won't you? " But the next second, she was already worried about yoga, Pilates and fund-raising lunches ... In Molly's mind, these are more important than working-class couples.
After bankruptcy, sitting in an open-air restaurant and eating cheap clams, Molly can't forget to mention "Oh, how Europe is here, we have been to the Mediterranean"; Although facing a lout who is close to dentists and nurses and only knows vodka, she still wants to drink lemon martinis. (This picture itself is an excellent irony! ) blue-collar (working class) dentists (middle class) are not interested, so an ambassador who talks about fashion circles abroad and travels in Europe can enter her eyes. Being able to mention new york and Park Avenue in that casual and intimate way in the conversation made her look refreshed, and the glory of her past life returned to her near collapse. This woman, who changed her name from tacky Janet to exotic Molly, turned herself into an elegant and charming woman, not for the ordinary housewife's life, but tailored for the upper class.
She is not a born lady. Although the version she showed off to others was dropping out of school and getting married, she was fooling around at school anyway. But later, she also said that she was a top student at school. This contradictory expression is not an unintentional confusion of the script, on the contrary, it is woody? Allen's portrayal is nuanced: Molly is lying. There is a simple reason. She wanted to pretend to be a woman from a superior family, muddling along at school, and then accidentally married a Gao Fushuai, although she was born in poverty, needed to look after her children to earn pocket money, and had to study hard at university to win the future. Her marriage to Hal completely changed her, or rather, the upper class tragically changed her and then abandoned her.
Unlike the American drama Bankrupt Girl, which is similar in material selection, the film ignores the ingratiation and indifference of people around it before and after the fall. Woody always focuses on Molly, because what really destroys her life is Molly's obsession with high society. She can leave her husband who has committed financial crimes, but pretend that she doesn't care and enjoy the luxury life brought by it; She could have told de Ville the truth, but she didn't. She fabricated a lie to gain the identity of the ambassador's wife. She is so attached to the luxury life decorated by global tourism that she is willing to "turn a blind eye" to maintain this illusion. She is willing to build a castle on the beach and try to get close to it. Her obsession spread to Ginger, who always thought "sexy and reliable" was the best candidate. Ginger actually slept with an audio engineer, then sprayed too strong French perfume and asked her sister, "Is he better?" Vanity and desire gnawed at Molly's life like tarsal maggots and grew like vines on her sister's balcony. As a result, both sisters fell heavily on the realistic concrete pavement. Woody doesn't have any pity here, but it is this "ruthlessness" that makes this film perform very well in satire.