Today's Woody Allen, though unable to get rid of his sexually assaulted and amorous flowered shirt, is still a bejeweled old guy in the eyes of the audience outside the role. As Woody Allen's eternal debate, love and women once again stepped onto the stage in Blue Jasmine. Woody Allen's so-called three magic weapons: the vagrancy of the city, the troubles of the literati, and the eternal nagging, unambiguously labeled this film as exclusive to Allen.
The film tells the story of a rich wife and a socialite of the upper class. After the breakdown of marriage and family, she had no money and had to live under the door of a mediocre sister. She doesn't want to accept the story that the status quo has suffered various blows in her life. In a hopeful encounter, she thought she could return to the upper class, but was unexpectedly abandoned in the street.
This film continues the tradition of personal satire. The story is simple but not boring. As a person who doesn't like to solve problems, the director once again left the confusion of life on the park bench.
Through the double dilemma of the heroine's spirit and life kidnapped by vanity, the film criticizes and exposes the materialist, and discusses the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and the survival crisis of women under the loss of independent consciousness.
Based on this, this paper attempts to interpret the social philosophy behind the film by analyzing the female images in the film.
We are two melons on the same vine, but because of the different "genes", we live completely different lives. We don't know whether this is determined by skin color, but it is obvious that my sister has been seeking the best opportunities and rights.
Judging from the love she recalls, the love between Molly and her husband may just be a collision of deception and vanity. Molly, who was still in college at that time, had not yet left the bottom to assemble a family. When she has the opportunity to enter the upper class, she will seize it desperately according to Molly's character, which can be confirmed in her second encounter after being down and out.
In order to match her noble status, she changed her business card to jasmine. From then on, there was a class difference between Molly and her sister, and Molly really longed for this kind of giving up. She hopes to be highly regarded by relatives and friends and become an upper-class "inflow" person. So when Molly was enjoying the glory, she didn't think of helping her sister who was still at the bottom. In the face of her sister's various invitations, she was also embarrassed. In Molly's eyes, my sister is just an old decoration that she can't get rid of.
In the film, Molly's love for her husband seems to be constant and faithful.
Throughout the film, Molly's neurotic obsession with the past runs through her mouth. Before she was down and out, she had bold self-confidence and admiration for her husband, and even some "anti-intelligence", but in fact it was just blind obedience to excessive satisfaction.
According to the viewpoint of Austrian psychologist Adler's individual psychology, inferiority is innate, because people are at a victory, psychological and social disadvantage in infancy and must rely on adults to survive, which will inevitably lead to inferiority, but there are also compensations behind inferiority.
However, Molly's broken family reorganization and special education will inevitably lead to her selfish, narcissistic and inferior psychological structure.
This kind of love, which she thinks is loyal and blazing, is just a manifestation of excessive dependence on her husband after satisfying her fantasy of class and filling her inferiority in value.
With a better living environment, Molly packaged herself exquisitely. This kind of packaging is more material, which is completed through consumption and social interaction. Sufficient resources did not bring her substantial improvement in her own ability, so that after everything vanished, Molly's life was difficult. What she is familiar with is high-end fashion consumption and the thinking of the rich.
By stepping out of the clouds, Molly ruined her future. Unable to stand riff-raff's sense of cheapness, she tried to open the road of petty bourgeoisie again by learning software and using her life experience and social skills.
In fact, she succeeded. After knowing the diplomat, she seized the opportunity in time and tried her best to make him fall in love with her. In order to protect the person she built, she pays great attention to details in every contact between the two sides, which is reflected in answering the phone and speaking and behaving.
Sadly, she finally fell into the hands of the past. Meeting her sister's ex-husband was not necessarily an accident, but perhaps a foreshadowing that had already been laid. A lie may mean that you can fool everyone at some point or fool some people all the time, but you can't fool everyone all the time.
Molly lied to herself, lied to her boyfriend, lied to her past marriage, but failed to lie to San Francisco. There is never night here in San Francisco, only sharp shadows cut the weak body in the sun.
If Woody Allen has been writing a love letter to new york all his life, then San Francisco is his lost eulogy. Molly was left on the bench by life, and no one listened to her crazy muttering. The so-called jasmine blue may be the pure white petals that are lost because they can't be held by dollar bills.