Awful adaptation

Rating: 3/10 (10 May 2020)

This is a sub-par adaptation of what is one of the best books ever. This movie is not awful thru and thru, but basically a completely modernized version of the story and not a good representation of the book. The movie of course includes the usual gratuitous promiscuity that seems to be a necessary element or precondition of so many of today's films, along with 2000s music, not that of the early 1920s. What made the book excellent was, at least partly, the period in which it was set. However, there is a subliminal (for lack of a better word) mood to the book which the movie doesn't capture, except in a couple moments of genius. I might have actually found the movie more acceptable if it was titled differently, but this is certainly not The Great Gatsby: the movie might be worth a slightly higher grade if one watches it under that condition.