Woody Allen’s recent Blue Jasmine is a Greek tragedy-esque story about a glamorous woman whose ambition and naivete leads 
herself to her own downfall. Quite possibly, the film gravitates itself around Cate Blanchett’s remarkable acting talents. Here, we are shown that she can pull off not only an Elven Goddess-like figure (LOTR fans) or a Manhattan social elite, but also a woman on the constant verge of nervous breakdown.
Allen creates a wonderful assimilation of past and current events in Jasmine’s life, allowing room for comparison in the changes of the protagonist’s lifestyle, as well as deduction on how things came to be. This is only emphasised by a fantastic cast that perfectly captures the classes of which the characters originated from. The transformation of major characters i.e, Jasmine and Ginger, is justly transparent with the sensational work by the wardrobe department.
Allen, as one would see in this film, has the ability to portray a multi-layered complex of a character’s story through a single phrase or movement. Jasmine’s pains from her complicated childhood, of having an adulterous husband and of crashing from her previous opulence are mirrored in her public breakdowns, during which she would mutter a few words to accentuate a flashback. The audience would not find it hard to sympathise for her plight right to the end, overlooking her mean condescension of the meager yet happy sister and her boyfriend.
Without spoiling too much of the elaborate yet superbly rich scripting of the film, I would say that this is a definite must-watch for the film enthusiast keen on going to the theaters.