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The Great Gatsby Movie Review (2. Who is Jay Gatsby? It's the question that's fired a thousand imaginations, with theories flowing as freely as the champagne in his tale.

He's an Oxford man. Related to the Kaiser.

He's a bootlegger. A German spy. He killed a man. Through Nick's eyes, we grow to understand more of who Gatsby is—but there's one facet to the man that Nick fails to fully convey: Gatsby's a little crazy. He's crazy in the same way we all are, I think, only he has the wealth and power to express it more fully.

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He longs to turn back the clock. He wants to reset life to what it was five years before, when Daisy and he had first met and the world was full of promise. He wants to erase Tom Buchanan from Daisy's mind. He wants to, perhaps, return his soul to the state it was in before he made so many moral compromises of his own (while keeping his castle, of course).

I wonder sometimes whether Gatsby truly loved Daisy that much, or whether part of him was just yearning for his own lost innocence. Jay," Nick cautions him, "You can't repeat the past." "Of course you can," Gatsby says. Of course you can." He's wrong. Everyone knows that. But he can't accept it. Nick describes it as a remarkable capacity to hope.

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He was the most hopeful people I've ever met," he says. But in truth, we could exchange the word hope for another: delusion. Stargate: Continuum Online Putlocker.

In one of the film's most poignant moments, we see Gatsby scrubbing his Duesenberg furiously. The car destroyed a life, and the evidence is everywhere, from the smashed windshield to the dented front … and yet he washes the car and talks to Nick about Daisy—his whole focus still on Daisy—as if the tragic evening could be wiped clean through work and wishing.

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby pays close attention to its classic F. Scott Fitzgerald source material. It nails the decadence of the age through creative use of modern music (Jay- Z scored the film) and over- the- top imagery. It alludes to many of the themes that make English teachers swoon.

It even captures something of Fitzgerald's sorbet- smooth prose. But if the book about Jay Gatsby is cynical and ironic, the movie is trusting, even hopeful—much like Gatsby himself. That sometimes manifests in positive ways: Nick, for instance, struggles with whether to reintroduce Gatsby to Daisy, with her now married and all.

So what the movie loses in subtlety, it tries to make up in heart and conscience. That heart needs a hero, though, and Gatsby is a problematic hero to have. Luhrmann loses some of Fitzgerald's subtlety and detachment and, in so doing, practically forces audiences into Gatsby's embrace—asking us to forgive and forget his criminal activities and that he's trying to woo away another man's wife.

Some will still find that this movie infuses the classic book with new life. And that may be good.

But is it great? Sorry. This Gatsby falls short, old sport.