Blue Jasmine

So, I randomly landed on Blue Jasmine and it was a Woody's production.
Bren says I mustn't watch neurotic movies because I tend to be too drawn into them. I say neurotic people are the only real people, everyone is neurotic just that the injured ones stick out. I say its like a kink on a wire, no matter how they recover, there will be a weaken kink that will never be smooth as new. but that is nothing wrong too, in fact we ought to be sympathetic to people who have tried darn hard to pull themselves together.

 So Jasmine (previously known as Jeanette) shed her past when she married into the high life to a banker. She is snobbish but I don't know how to put it across to you. She is not a bad person. She may be vain, materialistic but she is old-fashioned with her morals. She is an adopted child, when she was old enough she had intended to study as per normal, go to college, get a job etc. but men are attracted to her. It's like her destiny that she lives the life of a rich tai tai.
When she was rich, she did not bother to maintain a relationship with her sister (adoptive sister). She thinks her sister is a country pumpkin who settled for less, married a loser (building contractor, blue collar worker). She had always made it known that she thinks her sister deserves a better man, or in her language- to "step up" to a better qualifying man. She would later need to move in with her sister because she had no home, no money, no skills.

 So one day, her husband was arrested for fraud, he killed himself while in jail. Everyone she has ever known hates her because they all lost tonnes of money as her late husband cheated them of their money. Jasmine had a mental meltdown and began taking mood stabilizer pills, also drinking. 

She tried to go back to school, like taking a computer course of sorts but it had been very hard for a person who had been out-of-touch for the past 20 years. It got so bad that she began to talk to herself, aloud.

So anyway, the quarrels and struggles she has with her sister were driving her crazier. 

She attempted to lie to a potential date about her past. She almost succeeded in engaging the new boyfriend, alas her lies were founded. 

So the twist of the movie was that Jasmine in a way, had brought the downfall upon herself. She discovered that her husband had been having a string of affairs with his secretary, yoga instructor, her own friends. He was planning to leave her for a young woman. She went berserk because after all, she had been real with her love for him and expected nothing short of total loyalty. She got back to him by reporting him to the authority on his suspected business wrongdoings. The movie leaves an open ended debate to the viewers as to whether it was worth it bringing her husband down, leading to loss in her lifestyle and also her own mental breakdown. (She still thinks that he deserved it, she could not forgive him. So she bears the brunt of her own pride).

 Struggling to concentrate while her sister's boyfriend blasted the TV, watching dunno what baseball match.

Jasmine telling her sister she should step up to a "better" man for a "better" life.