The Contenders:
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her (winner)
Nebraska
Showing posts with label Blue Jasmine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Jasmine. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
A Cable Car Named Desire
Film: Blue Jasmine
Format: Starz HD on rockin’ flatscreen.
Format: Starz HD on rockin’ flatscreen.
When I can, I try to watch something off the DVR. For whatever reason, there are a lot of movies I want to watch being broadcast in the next three months, so I need to constantly clear room. More than that, I’ve got things that I recorded well over a year ago that I just haven’t gotten to. Of all the films languishing on the DVR that are on one of my various lists, none has sat longer unwatched than Blue Jasmine. I tried watching it once before and in the first few minutes found the title character so repellent that I shut it off and haven’t come back to it. Sooner or later, though, it’s something I need to watch.
This time I gutted it out past those first few minutes and I get it. Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is supposed to be repellent. That’s the entire point. The entirety of Blue Jasmine is about the complete breakdown of this woman who has created a world for herself and then seen that world pulled out from under her. It’s not hard to compare this to A Streetcar Named Desire, and that’s obviously Woody Allen’s intention. It’s not a complete remake of the story, but there’s enough in common here that not seeing Jasmine as a modern-day Blanche DuBois is all but impossible.
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