Blue Jasmine - Oscar Gold

Woody Allen's latest film, "Blue Jasmine," is sure to garner plenty of Golden Globe & Oscar nominations. Allen is in top form with his piercing humor & perceptive insight of our current social malaise.  The movie centers on 2 adopted from different biological couples.  The "golden girl," is the beautiful, wealthy socialite Jasmine, (Cate Blanchette) who appears to have everything and, Ginger (Sally Hawkins) from "the poorer gene pool," a working, divorced mother of 2, struggling to make ends meet.  The plot has a lot in common with the Bernie Madoff financial scandal.  Jasmine, when living lavishly on the upper east side & the hamptons wants nothing to do with Ginger living in San Francisco until she is destittue, desperate and in need of her help.  Alec Baldwin play's Jasmine's debonair  & deceitful husband who not only cheats on his wife, but swindles his investors.  The disparities between the working class &  the "1%" is the crust of the film.  Underneath, are layers of love & trust, social aspirations & moralities and the overwhelming prescriptive and alcoholic dependence of the "masses" due to social anxieties.  Allen is foremost in casting his films.  Here, he has assembled a brilliant cast of actors who play diametrically different character types.  In addition to  Blanchette, Hawkins & Baldwin, the entire supporting cast is spectacular, including Andrew Dice Clay & Alden Ehrenreich playing Bladwin's son.  Allen has said, "I don't want to become immortal through my movies, I want to become immortal by not dying." His movies will live on & depict precisely what life was like at a specific period in time.