YMMV / Blue Jasmine

• Diagnosed by the Audience:
  • Though Jasmine is not specified as having a mental disorder, she does exhibit symptoms of comorbid Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (which would explain much of her behavior throughout the film). Both of these disorders would explain why she can never clearly see that she is accountable for her own misfortunes and misery on others on every single occasion.
  • For the former, she deals with constant and daily mood swings due to environmental circumstances, tries to deal with it by taking clearly a bit too much medication and drinking, relies on relationships with others to determine her sense of self-value and future, and is perhaps even more clingy than her sister, and her immediate response to Hal leaving her for a teenager was to turn him in for his criminal activity that she had supported due to the comfortable lifestyle, and she seems to be disassociating when talking to herself during her misfortunes.
  • On the other hand, her egotistical side means she compares herself and looks down on to those based on inferior social standing, has a lack of empathy that enables her to lie about her circumstances and how much value she really has, and also clearly uses those close to her for personal gain and not simply for the sole purpose just to establish her own comfortable life. As with the former, this too would also explain why she chose to be a quiet conspirator to her husband's secret criminal life prior to turning him in.
  • Hal's remorseless, matter-of-fact attitude about his infidelity and ripping off countless people might qualify him as a sociopath.
• He Really Can Act: Andrew "Dice" Clay as Augie took a lot of people by surprise with his sincere, emotional performance, especially in his final scene where he mixes explosive anger with deep-seated regret and vulnerability that shows that he and Jasmine both simply wish they could go back to a happier time. He reportedly even approached Woody Allen and made clear he was coming to the project as an actor and not as his usual stand-up persona.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Michael Stuhlbarg as an unhelpful dentist who claims to be able to understand people by their teeth. Four years earlier he appeared in A Serious Man, where he listened to an unhelpful rabbi tell an anecdote about a dentist who found Hebrew words on the back of a patient's teeth.
• Jerkass Woobie: Jasmine. She is absurdly self-involved, snobby and has almost no consideration for the feelings of others but is so tortured by her various illnesses and traumas and her swift fall from luxury that it's hard not to feel a little bit bad for her, especially as the finale indicates she has completely slipped from reality. The supporting characters have a point in how terrible her past actions were, but they give her hardly any sympathy now that she's suffering the consequences for them.
• Retroactive Recognition: Even Han Solo wants nothing to do with Jasmine in the end, especially since she called the FBI on his father.
• Rewatch Bonus: After Ginger sees Hal with another woman, you realize that every woman present in a flashback of Hal and Jasmine was likely one of his flings.
• Tear Jerker: Plenty, actually.

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