THE GREAT GATSBY

 
REVIEWED
How a 1920's film can be so great
Saw this film after Pawn Sacrifice in the same night making it a Tobey Mcquire's film fest for me. On Tobey, he should be the main star of the film and not Leonardo because he played the pivotal role and more screen times. Perhaps Leonardo is a better crowd puller that he was placed second. Anyway they were both real life childhood friends. I guess Tobey is a good guy so he gave his friend the credit.
The film at 2 hrs 2 mins is very good to me which made want to finish it at one sitting thou I was in a hotel with a 10" netbook and earphone  !
The scenes in the movie is fantastic and real. Its makes 1920's so nice to live in.
The background music is somewhat something new the director (or producer) wants to experiment. If ones noticed the music was rap and hip hop or songs that were recently popular but remake and remixed like Beyonce's songs. I think its because "Jay Z" is one of the producer (if its the same Jay Z). Anyway this "experimentation" works for me as it turned out fine and effective too. It has those Big Band Jazz music too but not entirely in the film.
Like what Nick Corroway (TM caharacter) wrote in this novel about the Great Gatsby, Jay (as  he called his friend) is a great human. He was the man in the power of hope (soemething like the power of believing). When he was small he dreamt of being very rich thou his parents were paupers. He managed to attained this. But then when he met the love of his live he lived and spent his life just to get back to this love of his life.
But how sad he was treated in the end. Betrayed by this "love" of his, framed by the husband of his love of his life and not even appreciated to those he had been entertained at this mansion Gatsby's parties. Such a human tragedy may I say.
I think I will search for the original 70's movie of the same name stariing Redford and Dern just to see how different this one with that. Anyway both are from the same book with the same characters in it (from IMDB's list)
Great just Great.