In recent years, we’ve seen many high-profile financiers exposed as frauds living off their clients’ money. As the media focuses on the trial and conviction of these crooks, one thing that’s often forgotten are their families. It’s easy for us to blame spouses and children for turning a blind eye in order to preserve the lifestyle they’re accustomed to, but what really becomes of them after that lifestyle disappears? Blue Jasmine is writer-director Woody Allen’s story of one such wife, and her struggle to carry on.
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