Poor Blue Jasmine (spoiler alert!)

I tend to not read reviews of movies before I go see them, I love the surprises movies have in store for me. I went to see Blue Jasmine knowing nothing about it except that Woody Allen made it and Cate Blanchett is the lead. So I knew nothing about the homage to Tennessee Williams but I'm so clever I recognized the story line as soon as the boyfriend bursts into a fit of anger and jealousy. Hey - I know this, I thought to myself, this is A Streetcar Named Desire all over again, and better except Marlon The Great isn't there.

What we do get here, rather than the lines of the old play, is a modern take on the fragility of the rich without their money. Woody is best in propelling drama with dialog like nobody else, in every one of his films, a dialog so brilliant you think the actors are making it up on the spot, not a single word out of place or superfluous. A rare quality in movies.
To his aid come the superb casting and design of sets, clothes, atmosphere so natural you feel you're a fly on those walls, be it in the beautiful Hampton's villas or in the hopeless desolation of a San Francisco apartment. It is a well made film, nasty and dark and perfect.

Woody Allen's a bastard, but he knows what he's doing, the bugger. I still think he is a pedophile and guilty of incest. Why do I go to see his movies still is beyond me. I shouldn't. He should have been writing in jail. That's the ugly life at work here - his crimes are not considered criminal because of his fame and because he never officially married the mother of his children. It doesn't change the fact that he married a girl he raised, 35 years his junior, the adopted daughter of his long term common law wife and mother of his biological children, he married the sister of his own kids. This will never be right, no matter how good a writer he is, no matter how he managed to convince himself, the girl, and the world that technically this is all just fine and dandy.

Wooddy Allen is not the first man in the world and surely not the last to be forgiven for serious bad deeds because of his talent, fame, or wealth. Such is the world we live in. Yesterday's news are fast forgotten, and the world moves on. I wonder what legacy he leaves the kids from his newly constructed family. He was writing their drama of a future even before they were born.
I just wish one day someone will be able to write something equally nasty and good about him, in his own style so the truth will be out there, for those who are seeking it.