Blue Jasmine

If you are looking for a dismal movie, look no further than this.  The audience laughed and applauded a few times but no more than that.  And by the end of the movie, no one was laughing.

This story follows two adopted sisters in their late thirties.  Jasmine had a rich husband who ended up killing himself in a prison cell.  The government acquires all of their wealth leaving the older sibling with only her sister in San Francisco for help.  She's used to having everything handed to her and screws her sister over in some flashback scenes.  The other sister, Ginger, on the other hand, is very meek and feels that she got the bad genes in the family which is why she dates the guys she dates and lives the way she lives.  Jasmine does little to make her feel like the guys she dates aren't total losers.  She doesn't see that the man in front of her face is the man for her--this after a fling with a married guy played by C.K. Louis.  She does love her boyfriend.  In the end, it is the two of them playing cutesy together on the couch while her sister takes a shower and heads for the street.  She sits on a park bench and mumbles to herself with her hair still wet.  The woman next to her leaves, perturbed.  It seems probable she'll end up in a hospital.

We're never actually rooting for Jasmine  She's too devious.  She's obviously abandoned by her sister.  We still hope she gets better.  We pray she doesn't get worse, that she recovers.  But she's been through so much hell.  How destructive losing a cheating husband who kills himself and having the government take everything you owned.  She got more beat up than a boxer.  But it's bruises on the insides.  And she's down for the count.