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Blue Jasmine

24.04.14

Director; Woody Allen Blue Jasmine is a bruiser of a movie, a Greek tragedy that dispatches a Park
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Avenue princess with a massive slap.!
The idea came from Soon-Yi, his wife of 16 years, who told him about the friend of
(US), 2013 Cert (UK): 12A , 98 a friend the wife of a financier who imploded after learning her husband was
mins unfaithful and involved in Ponzi-ish fraud. Critics have feasted on the age-of-Madoff
topicality. Allen is unconvinced.!
"No. I had none of that in mind," he says. "I don't engage with public events any
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Bobby more than I ever did. In real life of course I vote, I campaign for people I like, I'm
Cannavale, Cate Blanchett interested in public events. But in writing I'm not, and I wasn't here in any way. It's
strictly accidental.!
Allen is sceptical about theories that say it's a modern spin on A Streetcar Named
A former New York socialite Desire. So maybe it's a public service broadcast? A warning for siblings who might
whose life has imploded in the egg each other over the precipice? (Allen and Soon Yi have two adoptive daughters
wake of her husband's of their own, now teenagers.)!
Allen shuts the lid politely. "A cautionary fable? No. I just thought it was an
imprisonment ( la Bernie interesting psychological situation for a woman to be in. This is not a character I'd
Madoff), Jasmine has been have written 40 years ago. I wouldn't have had the skill to do it, and I didn't come in
contact with this type of woman until I got older, because I live in an upscale
forced to park her Louis Vuitton
neighbourhood in New York.!
luggage in the incongruous Allen has spoken before about his fondness for "kamikaze women", who destroy
surroundings of her adoptive you in the fallout; Jasmine is cut from the same cloth, yet untroubled by charm. As
the film unfolds, you expect revelations that will heighten your sympathy. What you
sister's San Francisco apartment, get is further incriminating evidence. It's a character study. It's also character
with corrosive results. assassination.!
Attempting to "move on" and I was surprised, I say, he wasn't more on side with someone who seeks solace in a
fantasy world. "Well, you're just asking for trouble, if you do that," he says, concern
make a new start (she is a past in his voice. "It's very seductive and I've done it a certain amount, but it does take a
master of reinvention), Jasmine terrific toll. If you try and live your life with other people in offices and in the street
is finally out of her depth as she and in your social intercourse I think it can be brutal.It is in giving in to them that
Jasmine seals her fate. At a pivotal moment, she succumbs to what Allen calls, in
careers between ill-fitting both script and conversation, a "tantrum". That's what snaps his tolerance. "She
employment, ill-judged social could have gotten a divorce, forgiven him, had a talk with him, moved out of the
house. But she just hit the ceiling blindly and went on a rampage that brought
climbing and abysmal
destruction upon her whole household. She never stopped to think out the
interpersonal relations. consequences of her raging moment. You see tantrums in adults all the time. You're
Meanwhile, writer-director driving on the highway and a car bumps you and the driver gets out and he's ready
to tear your head off."!
Woody Allen darts back and But do some people have a greater propensity for self-destruction? "Yes,
forth between past and present, absolutely." Why? "Well, I think that's genetic. Or at least somewhat genetic and
interlacing scenes of extravagant somewhat nurture. The genetic component works in terms of a proclivity towards
tantrums and depending on the kind of childhood they've had, how much rage they
privilege with the dawning assimilate and injustices and terrible things or perceived failure work together on
realities of a midlife meltdown you as you grow up.There are still deep roots women are influenced by. They feel
beyond the protective bubble of they'll grow up, they'll go to school, they'll meet some guy and he will take over the
reins. They may do some work but they're not going to head up a law firm or
the Upper East Side. something they won't have time, raising the kids. Guys are more used to the
business of making their own lives and women have traditionally married men who
they feel have an obligation to take care of them in some way.If you asked most
men in the privacy of their own home they might say: I liked it better when a woman
got married and took care of the kids and I went out to work and the equation was
clearly defined. Women should be free to have anything and everything they want
in terms of all of those rights. It should be a given, not be a privilege. But it is
undoing a more primitive situation."!
So societal structures are struggling to keep up? "That's true. It's happened very
rapidly. I think if you look 100 years from now, the situation will be much more
graceful. You won't have the old history to fall back on. You'll have a feminist
dynamic to refer to."!
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