off kilter

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2013)

It's off kilter. The houses on Long Island are not 1920s houses. The gas station is not a 1920s gas station. They have two black youths opening the door of the house- never would that have been. People opened their own doors! They had maids and laundresses but they didn't have people standing at the door, for god sakes.
Nobody will know that it's all wrong. They just go, "oh let's go to The Great Gatsby!" and they enjoy it I guess, and they don't think about it. Nobody knows what houses and streets looked like (they probably got the cars right).
All the women are the same person -- flirtatious. Of course they did what the director wanted them to do... they weren't on their own thinking how they should have acted in the 20s...
I was born in 1926. Goodness knows how long ago I read the book. I can't hardly remember anything but I know this movie isn't it.
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