An amazing story of love

Rating: 6/10 (15 September 2013)

Hello, my name is Pham Lai and this is my first review for any movie. To tell you a bit about myself, I am a 17 year old Vietnamese philosopher. While I may not be educated in Oxford like Sir Gatsby, I certainly do a lot of thinking. I am a simple Caodaiistst, and I love life. In my language, my religion's full name is "Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ" which means "Great Religion of The Third Period of Revelation and Salvation" in English. We believe in the teachings of the Buddha, Sages, and Saints. Anyhow, enough about me.
This movie was a dull story of love, and nothing more. Like James Gatz, anyone in life can work from nothing to fame, or at least live a modest life. I personally grew up in South Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and just recently moved to Hanoi, in north Vietnam. My country is always oppressed by some people, for example the Americans and the Chinese. For more than a thousand years, Chinese have controlled our great land of Vietnam. The Americans tried to invade us and force their ways on us, but we prevailed and won the war. I grew up in poverty and I slowly, with each passing day made a better and better future for myself, just like Mister Gatsby. This movie was very sad in the fact that the "old chap" Gatz wasted all those 5 years waiting and waiting, and then died in such a horrid way. The ending of the movie for me was a big disappointment, almost like they didn't have the funding for a better one. Just as Mr. Gatsby was so close to finally having his love, he was shot through the heart. And even in his death he was disrespected, because nobody went to his funeral except the young lad that lived next to Gatz. The movie itself honestly wasn't very interesting, it was a simple plot about someone inside a physic ward telling a story of his friend, or had he imagined it all? It was a simple love story of a man who wanted what he could not get, and because it was such a simple story, I give this movie a 6 out of 10 stars.