One of the ten best movies ever

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2013)

The first part of the movie recreates the Roaring 20's in exaggerated excess. Colourful, blustery, noisy, and multi-dimensional. Just when you're about to shriek, Enough! the mysterious Gatsby is introduced. Thereafter, the movie transcends the spectacular and becomes the beautiful love story full of idealism, naiveté, hope and despair that F. Scott Fitzgerald created as literature. The characters are in glimpses, strong, weak, superficial, empathetic, but always compellingly real. It is a simple story with complex overtones and - often disturbing - layers. And in the end, heroic.
It's a must see.