Movie review: The Great Gatsby
The new version of The Great Gatsby has gotten a lot of mixed reviews. But I have to say that I liked it.
Leonardo di Caprio and Tobey Maguire were perfectly cast as Gatsby and Nick the narrator. I also thought Carey Mulligan was very good as Daisy. (She plays Daisy as less of an airhead than she is sometimes portrayed.) I liked the way they framed the story. (It's winter and Nick is in a sanitarium being treated for alcoholism and telling the doctor about his summer with Gatsby.) But the best part of this movie is the art direction and ambiance. You feel like you're really in New York City in a hot summer in the early 1920s. The stock market is out of control and so is everything else. The parties are too wild. The driving is too fast. And the main characters are just too reckless. You also clearly get the stark contrast between the "haves" and "have nots" when Tom Buchanan is driving from his palatial estate on Long Island to Manhattan and has to pass through the valley of death where George Wilson's garage is located.
Leonardo di Caprio and Tobey Maguire were perfectly cast as Gatsby and Nick the narrator. I also thought Carey Mulligan was very good as Daisy. (She plays Daisy as less of an airhead than she is sometimes portrayed.) I liked the way they framed the story. (It's winter and Nick is in a sanitarium being treated for alcoholism and telling the doctor about his summer with Gatsby.) But the best part of this movie is the art direction and ambiance. You feel like you're really in New York City in a hot summer in the early 1920s. The stock market is out of control and so is everything else. The parties are too wild. The driving is too fast. And the main characters are just too reckless. You also clearly get the stark contrast between the "haves" and "have nots" when Tom Buchanan is driving from his palatial estate on Long Island to Manhattan and has to pass through the valley of death where George Wilson's garage is located.
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