The Great Adoption

Rating: 7/10 (13 September 2013)

When you watch a movie which is a celebrated novel in English literature, you try and see if it simplifies the literature and yet maintain its subtlety.
The movie does this splendidly. Apart from the challenge of converting worded descriptions into a visual replication, the character portrayal has come out really well. The passions of Gatsby, the narrative impulse of Nick and Daisy!
The plot for those who aren't familiar - A millionaire tries to befriend certain people to get close to his love interest. How is does that and whether he manages to get close to her is just one part of the movie. The more sensitive part is the third person narration of the entire event by Nick Carraway (Tobey). That adds the flavour into the movie and asks a larger question on the legitimateness of the actions undertaken by the characters and their subsequent impact on perceptions about them.
For all these projections which blend the need to make a visual effect simple yet layered, I give it a 7 on 10.