Blue Jasmine 5

Susan Sontag in her talk on Classical Pornography speaks about forms of literature that pornography may have unintentionally generated. She mentions surrealism and the New Novel. Jasmine is a character of love, but she is also a character of "eros." Her mind has become intensely free associating and erotic. She does not seem to realize this, but her mind clicks at the mention of a word. I believe the word, France, conjures up the memory of a woman related to a French Hotel. Many other words conjure up entire scenes from her past. She is always looking at another Hal, strangely enough. When she finds a wealthy person who wants to marry her, it is almost exactly the same scenario as her meeting with Hal. She is somehow attracted to this manipulating loser because that's what she is.

It is strange what a neurotic, oversexed being she actually is. At her sister's home, who blurts out, "Who does one have to sleep with around here to get a stoli martini." The cat is out of the bag. She loved the luxury and she loved being by herself because she wanted to luxuriate in her eroticism. Once she found out the truth about Hal, she too slept around to relieve herself.

Both she and her sister are out for fast change and they both find themselves back into their old personalities. They are both social personaities with no real self. The real, has, in effect, become the social IT.