It's been awhile, but we're back at it. We saw Blue Jasmine recently, and here's Lauren's thoughts on it:
This was hands down one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. I keep telling everyone to go see it. And I haven’t even seen many of Woody Allen’s movies, but now I want to watch them all. The story
of Blue Jasmine was about so, so much: friendship, infidelity, depression,
deceit, and what I thought to be the central theme, leaving the past behind.
You watch how the main characters ruin their lives with the inability to accept
the past and move on. Jasmine (played by Cate Blanchett…I will be shocked if
she doesn’t win the Oscar for this) can’t live with the embarrassment of her husband’s
now-exposed love affair(s), fraudulent business, public arrest and eventual
suicide. (And rightly so, if I had to live through that shit I’d be just as much of
a mess). Jasmine’s sister Ginger dwells on being from “bad genes,” and uses it
as an excuse for her string of loser boyfriends and dead-end jobs. Woody
Allen’s storytelling is perfectly executed—with glimpses into the characters’
past, we’re able to piece together why exactly they are SO fucked up now. It
serves as a kind of cautionary tale: to not let any man be such a part of your
life that they can ruin it, and to have the resolve to get your shit together
if you end up falling apart. Or else you’ll end up like Jasmine, shakily popping
Xanax after Xanax, talking to yourself in the street and walking around with
your makeup ruined because you cried it off. Be strong, or else.
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