Blue jasmine

As a representative of urban movies, Woody Allen (Woody? Allen) shows the exquisite and charming life of the upper class in new york in the light and shadow world, which is luxurious, glamorous and leisure. He is a bystander of life and a wonderful satirist. Woody Allen, as a representative of new york film school, once again turned his attention to new york after the London trilogy (Match Point, Exclusive and Cassandra's Dream). Blue Jasmine's story unfolded between drunken new york and romantic San Francisco. Woody Allen in The New Yorker expresses his skill of mixing tragedy and comedy and his life with Molly through trivial and tense storyline, dramatic actress performance, careful imitation of life scripts and camera language depicting fate and life in the ordinary.

Spying into the life of the upper class is a big selling point of the movie Blue Jasmine. When we look at the "aristocratic aura" of WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Puritans), we always settle on a group of so-called "celebrities", whose social status, wealth, life taste and enviable knowledge are higher than ordinary people. Maybe they are charitable, talented and knowledgeable. The envy and jealousy desire of ordinary people to "be one of them" is the most "snobbish" external expression in the process of social ladder climbing. "All societies are based at least in part on hierarchy. Obedience usually means hierarchy, sometimes explicit and sometimes implicit. But being respected is always accompanied by privilege. " (Ebenstein's Snobbish: An Interpretation of Contemporary American Upper Class) So at the beginning of Blue Jasmine, the heroine "Molly" talks about her luxurious life and upper class in the first class, and babbling makes people feel that all this is quite real. When the camera turned to her, she came to her cousin Jinger dressed up with an old suitcase of LV. She used to be a trapped canary, but now everything is like a cloud: Woody Allen's contrast technique makes the audience have infinite reverie.

Woody Allen described the whole process of a "lady" falling from the peak of her life. The absurdity and solemnity in the narrative techniques of movies show the black humor of social reality and the cruelty of life everywhere.

Blue Jasmine breaks the usual narrative technique in Hollywood and "resists narration". The inner world of the characters is externalized through jumping flashbacks. This unconventional narrative technique interpenetrates "memory" and "reality", breaking the boundaries between present and past, reality and daydream, soul and body, and reconstructing the traditional "Hollywood" narrative.

To uncover the happiness of the middle class and even the upper class, the essence of "happiness" is a castle built on sand, which turns into a "phantom bubble" at any time with the scouring of the waves. Miss Molly in the film is obsessed with fame and fortune, and it is her obsession with high society that ruined her. The title of the film Blue Jasmine is taken from jazz music Blue Moon. There are many romantic, blues and sad melodies in the film, which echo from beginning to end, suggesting that the ostentatious life of the heroine "Moon in the mirror, flowers in the water" is doomed to the cliff of tragedy.

Woody Allen's lens is aimed at the middle class and upper class who have realized the "American Dream", but the "mobile feast" in urban life is fragmented and full of jokes. Miss Molly is intellectual and elegant. In order to enter the upper class of new york, she married Hal, a handsome and wealthy businessman, and lived on Fifth Avenue. Her life is full of banquets, social activities, shopping and parties. She can juggle with ladies and gentlemen, enjoy love and admiration, and live a luxurious life of "rich woman" among the elite. Her cousin Jiang is not as good as "Jasmine" in appearance or speech, and has been struggling at the bottom of society and living an ordinary life.

It turns out that "Miss Molly" is not "born rich". Both she and Jiang came from the civilian class, and it was the efforts of Jasmine in the first half of her life that made her "soar". Fate's joke on Jasmine comes from Jasmine's own fault: vanity and pride, like the tentacles of vines, wrap and destroy Jasmine's "great future". Party fans, in order to marry a rich man, choose to drop out of school one year before graduating from college; The so-called handsome and rich husband is actually a "financial fraudster"; Hal hung out with many women around him, but escaped Molly's eyes; In the name of "investment", I ruined my sister Ginger and her boyfriend Augie, and so on. Her life is like dancing on the edge of a cliff, seemingly indestructible, but always in danger.

Impermanence is the other side of a silver coin, with ups and downs. The impermanence of life is reflected in the plot of Blue Jasmine. Ups and downs are the last thing every proud life wants to face, but they are the "fate" and "ending" of poor operators. In the movie, the crisis stems from a cousin and brother-in-law visiting relatives in new york. Ginger accidentally caught a glimpse of Molly's husband Hal kissing a strange woman in the street. After telling Molly this fact, Molly was still confident and unconvinced. Once Pandora's box is opened, time can never go back. Miss Molly strutted in Vanity Fair. She is still complacent and extravagant as usual. Her eyes are warm sunshine, but her feet are the abyss of a cliff.

Woody Allen's editing is unconventional, and the contrast between the shots is remarkable, creating the image of a "declining aristocrat" Miss Molly. The film uses a lot of shots to switch, which is natural. In the first part of the film, when the audience saw cousin Jin Ji's shabby, crowded and narrow house, the camera switched to Miss Molly's spacious and bright seascape villa and the banquet scene that made her feel at home. When Jiang's friend watches the football match at her home and makes a noise that Miss Molly can't stand, the scene switches to the picture that Molly misses the past "building tall buildings and entertaining guests". The camera switches between new york and San Francisco at will, expressing her disillusionment and ups and downs of life.

"Color" is regarded as a symbolic element to highlight the theme and render emotions in movies. Blue Jasmine is a metaphor for the main theme of the film with the memory part of "warm tone" and the reality part of "cold tone". After the disaster, Molly's experience became worse. In this part of the narrative, the director adopted a "calm tone", and the cruelty and survival of the bottom society occupied all the right to speak, which "Miss Molly" could not tolerate and accept. It is difficult to go from extravagance to thrift. In reality, Molly always wants to escape from the vulgar men around her, so she is addicted to fantasy and still dreaming flashy old dreams. In the performance of Miss Molly's Memories, the film adopts "warm colors". The complex contrast of "dual narrative" in Blue Jasmine enriches the characters.

Miss Molly was composed by Australian actress Cate Blanchett (Cate? Blanchett), she won the Best Actress Award in the 86th Academy Awards and the Best Actress Award in the 7th1Golden Globe Awards in America for her role in this film. On Blanchett's road to fame, she is good at giving full play to her role foundation. May 1969 was born in Taurus, which conforms to Taurus's "stable, literary and sharp" character and is a full-fledged acting star. The film that impressed me the most was Elizabeth II: The Golden Age, in which Blanchett played Elizabeth I. As we all know, the competition between Elizabeth I of England and Mary I of Scots was arrogant and conceited, and the battle of roses between the two queens was always talked about by the world, thus the story of the broken queen who portrayed Mary Stuart's life began. Elizabeth II: The Golden Age is an interpretation of Queen Elizabeth I's glorious years. At the same time, Blanchett shows the irreconcilable contradiction between a woman's secret emotional world and her authority as a monarch. The spirit of forbearance, fragility, ambition and unwillingness makes people feel distressed. Elizabeth I brought a powerful "golden age" and 300 years of prosperity to Britain under the rule of Queen Mary I of Scots. Blanchett's intellectual beauty is especially suitable for housewives, professional women, intellectuals and other roles in upper class. Perhaps because she absorbed the blurred, fragrant and open atmosphere of the wilderness from Australia, she was born with a mixed-race temperament that ordinary Hollywood actresses did not have. Like dew in the sun, it absorbs the beauty of nature.

The film "Blue Jasmine" discusses the topic of women's independence, which swings between independence and attachment, which is fundamentally related to the ups and downs of Jasmine's fate. The audience can see that in the film, afternoon tea is enjoyed tastefully, and the distinguished guests are talking and laughing gracefully. Although Miss Molly has a high social status and lives a well-off life, all this is not a personal effort, but comes from her attachment to men. She eventually dropped out of college after studying anthropology. It can be seen that knowledge is only one of the good chips for marriage. "Molly" is limited to the traditional housewife category. She is not a desperate housewife, but she is not a newly independent woman.

"Women are not born, but gradually formed the day after tomorrow." Beauvoir's judgment on "the second sex" sounded the alarm for the vast number of women who lost the foundation of independent survival. Woody Allen aimed the camera at this kind of women, who put all their eggs on the "marriage" with their own wrists, which led to the complete mental breakdown of "Jasmine" after the marriage broke down. From foster families to college classes, from dropping out of school to family changes, from trying to learn new skills to attending parties and dating politicians and celebrities, between "independence" and "attachment", Miss Molly finally gave others the right to choose their own lives and let others control their own destiny. Blue Jasmine is covered with blue and melancholy tones. People who can't get rid of the shackles of fate are those who have made a choice between the clouds and the earth.

The final turning point of the protagonist in the film happened when Molly met Dwight, a diplomat, at a party in San Francisco, so Molly changed her mind and claimed that she was an interior designer. Her husband died and she had no children. Dwight was attracted by Jasmine's elegant appearance and upper-class conversation, and fell in love at first sight. Molly hid all the truth about herself, but Dwight didn't know it. She regarded Dwight as the last straw to return to the upper class, but let fate play a joke on herself. Just after Molly met Dwight's parents and was admitted, she met Ginger's ex-boyfriend Auggie on the way to buy a wedding ring with Ginger.

Auggie told the whole story that Molly and her dead husband ruined themselves, and by the way, he told the whereabouts of Molly's adopted son Danny. Dwight, who knew the truth, became angry from embarrassment. After a big fight, he abandoned Miss Molly who covered up the truth with lies. The sharp decline of life made Jasmine fall from a height again, and it was hopeless to turn over.

The identity of "Jasmine" comes from the stable and comfortable life situation before. Her identity crisis is the loss of moral and realistic identity of self-evaluation. The hypocrisy of the upper class, the mercenary crowd, and the single value of money first made her see that she was incompatible with the flashy world, and her compromise and obedience just showed that everything she tried was not worthy of her. Suddenly, she heard the romantic melody of Blue Moon echoing in her ear. She felt that she was once again integrated into the upper class, but she didn't know whether she had reached a tacit understanding and reconciliation with the world because of the darkness on the cliff and the fate of death.

The memory and reality of the film Blue Jasmine echo each other, and the narrative technique surpasses the general Hollywood, and the level is orderly; The portrayal of the characters' hearts is in place, and many works are written around Miss Molly. Other roles are in place, and the stage is not lost. Seeing the micro-knowledge, there is an echo from beginning to end; The bright lines and dark lines are intertwined, there is no extra pen, and the lens language is old and spicy. See Gan Kun in the silent place. Woody? Allen demonstrated the profound skill of the writer and director of The New Yorker with meticulous plays, and Cate Blanchett's solo sonata of his life was the best of its kind.

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