Kate Blanchett successfully acts a contradictory woman, the hero, Jasmine. Jasmine is an enviable, pitiful and unsavory woman. Actually Jasmine is a microcosm of mammonist and ghoulish society. Jasmine is beautiful, elegant and attractive. She and her husband have an extremely luxurious life in Manhattan. They move among the upper classes. Their pompous life ends with her husband's affair. Jasmine is badly crushed and angered by the betrayal. She loses her mind and exposes her husband's business fraud to the FBI. The man commits suicide in prison and all their property is confiscated by the government. Jasmine loses everything in one night because of her call. Her wealth, husband, stepson and everything she owns are gone in the blink of an eye. Enviable Jasmine now does not have any penny and no life skills. Perhaps she only has a beautiful face left. Her superficiality and dishonesty let her lose her sister and boyfriend's love. She destroys the possibility of finding happiness by herself. Till the end, Jasmine still lives in her previous life and memory. She cannot face the fact, and lives in that past luxurious life in her mind all the time. It's pathetic.