A Great Story, Good Actors and Actresses, and a Cheap Direction

Rating: 4/10 (1 July 2013)

I saw the movie "the Great Gatsby" yesterday.
I love the novel "the Great Gatsby," so I was looking forward to this movie, and at the same time I felt anxious about it.
Of course, the story of this movie was great, not due to any staff of this movie but to Scott Fitzgerald.
Gatsby devoted whole his life to Daisy, who wasn't what she really was but what he believed that she should be. He did anything that he believed that she would love, but actually it wasn't sure that she would love it. Finally, he was betrayed by the real Daisy, because she wasn't what he thought of her as.
In this sense, "the Great Gatsby" is tragedy and comedy like "Don Quixote." Gatsby and Don Quixote lived in their own imagination. All of us also live more or less in our imagination, but we can't forget the real world at all. Therefore, we look down on them and adore them at the same time like Nick Carter.
Which do you like to live your own life at any cost and go to ruin like Jay Gatsby, or to watch someone else's life from a safety zone like Nick Carter?
Tobey Maguire was adequate to Nick Carter. Although sometimes Leonardo DiCaprio overacted, I can't imagine that another actor palys Gatsby. Carey Mulligan was cute enough for Daisy who Gatsby loved.
But I was really disappointed that the direction was so cheap.
In this movie, everything in the images was unnatural. If it was a music video, I could say that their images were fashionable, but in this movie they broke my concentration on the story.
Did they use such artificial images in order to express the cheapness of the Roaring Twenties? If they wanted it, it would be successful. In fact, I seemed this movie to be cheap.
I'll try Robert Redford's "the Great Gatsby."