The repulsive top 1%

Rating: 5/10 (30 May 2013)

As someone who did not read the books, I had no idea what to expect knowing little of The great Gatsby. However, finally sitting down in my tattered red chair of the local regal cinema I found the Great Gatsby was a bizarre and ugly story displaying the worst nightmare of human qualities such as, greed, corruption, selfishness, vanity and an ugly grotesque vision of the top 1%.
This is not a review for The Great Gatsby book lovers nor the disillusioned self minded individuals who wish to live the life of fancy excess. This is a review of the working class who, like me, sat uncomfortably and disgusted gawking at the mesmerized audience hypnotically drawn into the movie's illustrious fantasy.
The Great Gatsby was about the life of a young stock broker who specialized in bonds living off the city of New York. His humble small cottage was placed in between 2 massive mansions, one which was next to this ever-popular, but mysterious person who went by the name of Gatsby. Gatsby threw parties, big parties. Unimaginable, fantastic, unreal parties that in 3D, was actually a treat to see. What was not a treat to see however, were the lives of these unnaturally rich individuals who seemed to be living the American pipe dream.
I was not sitting inside a luxurious dream as so many people thought to be watching but more of a surreal reality of current life in America. As we live in a decade were the top 1% own more than 50% of the wealth, and the divorce rate is a staggering 50%, the movies peak into the top 1% disgusted my inside guts and made my stomach turn and veins fill with venom. My experience going to the exclusive clubs of Washington DC found more resemblance in this movie due to the douchbaggery and sick selfish twisted minds that so many of these people have. Why try glorify it by applauding the movie's excessive taste of life and champagne. Albeit, I understand its a fiction book and therefore a fiction movie, but I cannot help but realize the inside of my guts turning as I watch the audience approving and glorifying the character's poor choices and swallowing the dreams and fantasy to become or be with someone like them.
To be fair, there are some love elements to the movie and the most spectacular use of 3D I have seen seen used, yet those have been dwarfed by the amount of disgust this movie's corruptive and selfish nature manifests itself in.