Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby is essentially everything you would expect Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby to be. It is rich with spectacle and kinetic emotion, lushly beautiful, soaked with gleaming and saturated color and fat with characters tormented with longing for the unattainable: be it love, the idealized version of their own lives, or simply a move beyond the crushing weight of "low born" poverty. In Gatsby's case, it's all of the above.
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the same name, the film follows narrator Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), an aspiring bond broker in the 1920's, through a summer spent on the outskirts of New York. His partners in play are his pampered and flighty cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan); her old-money, pure arrogance husband Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton); and Daisy's old-flame, the mysterious and newly rich Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Gatsby is at once deeply vulnerable and ruthlessly ambitious. He has created a manufactured identity based on who he wishes he was, in an attempt to eradicate all of who he, in reality, is. More than that, he has projected all of his life's dreams and goals onto his lost love Daisy.
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