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What year is the movie supposed to be set in?


I know it came out in 2013 but it seems like it was set in an earlier time.
Jasmine doesn't know how to use a computer... in 2013? That might be believable in 2000 but not in 2013.
Even the way San Francisco is portrayed is very out of date. Everyone in the movie is white, there are lots of working class people living there (Jasmine's sister and her group of friends, etc). Nobody is ever on their phone in public, nobody uses social media, the rich guy that Jasmine is trying to marry is in politics and he still doesn't use any social media, he does not Google Jasmine before getting involved... anyone with political aspirations would do some background checking on her.
Even the rich people in the movie are rich from old-fashioned fields like finance and law, there is nobody in the tech industry.
I live in the Bay Area and this is just not the 21st century San Francisco that I know.
Real 21st century San Francisco is so expensive that the 'Chili' type working class have all been squeezed out unless they have lived in the same rent controlled place for 20 years. Real San Francisco is 1/3 Asian, and whites are a minority. In this movie you don't even see Asian extras in the street or party scenes. Real San Francisco, almost everyone under 50 is involved in the tech industry in some way.

I guess Woody Allen has always shown a fictional whitewashed version of New York but it was not as obvious to me since I haven't been to NY, but when he sets a movie in S.F., I immediately notice all the stuff that is wrong.
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Maybe she didn't know computers because she was a bit,older, and never had to work before, maybe simply just don't like them..so didn't know how to use one.

I thought the timeline might have been purposely vague. Kind of like riverdale..throwback to the old classic style but still sort of modern

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LOL! I guess your a young person who can't imagine lives and experiences other than her own. And the film is a fiction - not a documentary.

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