History Film / BlueJasmine

* HateSink: Hal's shady criminal dealings are one thing, but cheating on his wife with as many other women as he wants, lying about it, and then telling her flat out to her face that he plans to marry a particularly young woman after he's caught, and showing little accountability for what he's done and no empathy to how he's hurt her? It's no matter wonder Jasmine reacted in the matter she did, considering her mental instability.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Chili is very brash and has an explosive temper but he isn't wrong about Jasmine having a negative impact on everyone's lives or that she was a bad sister.

** As cold as he is to her, Danny's anger towards Jasmine over her actions and general desire to distance himself from her and all elements of his old life for his own well-being is also understandable.

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Jasmine's stepson Danny is mentioned as having attended Harvard before the scandal broke and he dropped out. Justified given his family's wealthy and status undoubtedly helping him be accepted.

* BrokenPedestal: Danny's dialogue makes it clear that Hal and Jasmine are this to him.

* FairWeatherFriend: Aside from never having the decency to tell Jasmine that her husband was screwing around, it appears all her friends ditched her once the scandal broke out (to be fair, they were also no doubt legitimately furious about Hal ripping them off).

* DefectorFromDecadence: Jasmine's stepson Danny was at Harvard and lived a live of enormous privilege but dropped out due to the shame of Hal's dealings and now works at a music store in Oakland, living a fairly normal life and, aside from past issues with drugs due to all that happened, generally seems much happier and to have handled the change in lifestyle considerably better than Jasmine has, helped in no small part by his marriage.

* WhamLine: Already stunned at learning of Hal's affair with a friend's au pair, Jasmine is even moreso when her friend admits that she knew and that this is just the latest of his infidelities, proceeding to rattle off the names of his other lovers.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Jasmine calling the FBI. She outright tells her stepson that "the second I made that call, I regretted it". He sadly tells her, "You can't take it back."

* WithFriendsLikeThese: None of Jasmine's so-called friends saw fit to tell her that her husband was screwing around on her nor did they seem to offer any kind of help once things went bad for her. On the flip side, Hal had no qualms about ripping these people off.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: [[spoiler:Every one of Jasmine's rich friends knew Hal was seeing many other "girlfriends". They never told her because they felt it wasn't their problem.]]

* DomesticAbuse: Jasmine mentions that Augie hit Ginger and actually seems legitimately worried that Chili might be the same kind of man, given his problems with controlling his temper--indeed, he roughs Ginger up when he finds out about her infidelity, prompting Jasmine to not only try to physically break them up but also threaten to call the cops if he doesn't leave.

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Though Jasmine is not specified as having a mental disorder, she does exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia and narcissistic personality disorder (which would explain much of her behavior throughout the film).
** Hal's remorseless, matter-of-fact attitude about his infidelity and ripping off countless people might qualify him as a sociopath.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The film ends with Jasmine's circumstances exactly where they were at the beginning despite at least some small measures to change them.]] See also Bookends above.

---> '''Jasmine''': "Maybe she'll find a guy who deserves her, for a change!

* HappinessInMinimumWage: Jasmine's step son Danny, who grew up in the same luxurious life she had, dropped out of college after the scandal broke and now works at a music store in Oakland but seems to be quite content with his new life, having a wife he loves, and has taken his change in circumstances ''far'' better than Jasmine.

* StepfordSmiler: Jasmine was implied to be this prior, having some idea of Hal's affairs and shady dealings but choosing not to say anything. She's fallen fully into this during the film, trying to keep up a happy facade while having a full breakdown.

* HappinessInMinimumWage: Jasmine's step son Danny, who grew up in the same luxurious life she had, now works at a music store in Oakland but seems to be quite content with his new life, having a wife he loves, and has taken his change in circumstances ''far'' better than Jasmine.

* IRejectYourReality: Jasmine has trouble fully accepting her new circumstances. By the end, she's become completely detached from reality as a whole.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing we see Jasmine doing is [[ItsAllAboutMe talking at length about herself]] to a female companion, only for it to be revealed the other person is a total stranger who had the misfortune to sit by her on a plane.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: None of Jasmine's so-called friends saw fit to tell her that her husband was screwing around on her. On the flip side, Hal had no qualms about ripping these people off.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Jasmine's stepson Danny was at Harvard and lived a live of enormous privilege but dropped out due to the shame of Hal's dealings and now works at a music store in Oakland, living a fairly normal life and generally seems much happier and to have handled the change in lifestyle considerably better than Jasmine has, helped in no small part by his marriage.

* HappinessInMinimumWage: Jasmine's step son Danny, who grew up in the same luxurious life she had, now works at a music store but seems to be quite content with his new life, having a wife he loves, and has taken his change in circumstances ''far'' better than Jasmine.

** As cold as he is to her, Danny's anger towards Jasmine over her actions and general desire to distance himself from her for his own well-being is also understandable.

* FreudianExcuse: Jasmine and Ginger's adoptive parents seemed to have blatantly favored Jasmine over Ginger. This goes a long way to explain their issues: Jasmine is an entitled narcissistic used to getting what she wants, while Ginger is attracted to any man who shows her attention, no matter how destructive.

* DrivenToSuicide: Jasmine's husband Hal hanged himself while in prison. Jasmine doesn't want to talk about it but when pushed, ends up going into a lot of detail about how hanging kills you by neck snap, not suffocation as most people think. Her listeners are disturbed, to say the least.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: When Jasmine and Dwight start dating, they visit classy places and make love in a fine bedroom. This is juxtaposed with Ginger and Al's dates, where the two have sex inside their car and a cheap motel. However, neither of them are really good or evil, just high and low society.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Jasmine's stepson Danny was at Harvard and lived a live of enormous privilege but dropped out due to the shame of Hal's dealings and now works at a music store in Oakland, living a fairly normal and generally seems much happier and to have handled the change in lifestyle considerably better than Jasmine has, helped in no small part by his marriage.

* DrivenToSuicide: Jasmine's husband Hal hanged himself while in prison. Jasmine doesn't want to talk about it but when pushed ends up going into a lot of detail about hanging kills you by neck snap, not suffocation as most people think. Her listeners are disturbed, to say the least.
* {{Ephebophile}}: Hal, given his liason with an '''''18-year-old''''' girl (while she's of the legal age of consent, this disorder is defined as an attraction to those 15-19 years of age) and his passionate declaration that this is true love, with an attitude as if this is perfectly normal.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: [[spoiler:Everyone of Jasmine's rich friends knew Hal was seeing many other "girlfriends". They never told her because they felt it wasn't their problem.]]

* HystericalWoman: the Movie

* IdleRich: Jasmine, during her marriage. After losing her fortune she thus has few useful skills, and is mortified over taking a menial job like working in a store.

* LaughingMad: Jasmine, as Hal seriously and sincerely declares that he's found true love with an 18-year old girl and that they're "making plans for the future".
* LostFoodGrievance: Parodied at the end of the film, where Chili, reunited with his fiance Ginger, tells her to not touch the last slice of pizza. She takes it and dangles it in front of his face, teasing, "Is this yours? Is this yours?" He not only grabs the pizza, but snatches ''her'' up too and takes her away to the bedroom, where we overhear him saying, "This is mine, and this is mine, and ''this'' is mine..."

* MayDecemberRomance: Despite being a man in his fifties, Hal's affairs include a twentysomething personal trainer and a teenaged au pair.

* MeetCute: Jasmine and Dwight meet as a party by mutually needing to escape to the quiet of a private den.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hal and Jasmine, as well as their son are SerialNumbersFiledOff takes on Bernard Madoff and his family.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Jasmine's stepson Danny was at Harvard and lived a live of enormous privilege but dropped out due to the shame of Hal's dealings and now works at a music store in Oakland and generally seems much happier and to have handled the change in lifestyle considerably better than Jasmine has.

* RichesToRags: Deconstructed as much of the film shows the serious effects that such a fall from grace would have on a person.