Critique about "The Great Gatsby"

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2013)

The Great Gatsby
This outstanding film by Baz Luhrman, is an adaptation from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. In this film, a man named Nick Carraway, played by Tobey McGuire, moves to New York during the early 1920's to start a new life working in wall street. And he tells the story, as he narrates it to what seems to be his psychiatrist. He starts off by telling when he first moved to New York and rented a small house big mansions in a town where many rich people lived. Jay Gatsby (Leonardo Di Caprio) is his neighbor and he consistently catches him looking at him from his window until one day he receives an invitation to go to his home. When he gets there, he sees thousands of people in there and he realizes that he was the only guest who received an invitation and he learns that nobody really knows who Gatsby is or if he even exists. He ends up meeting Jay Gatsby and they become "friends" with a particular interest from Gatsby. This interest is a favor that Gatsby wants Nick to do for him, Nick agrees and he sets Gatsby on a path that would eventually gets him innocently killed, to save the love of his life.
This movie, is directed and produced by Baz Luhrman and as I mentioned earlier, it is an adaptation from F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel "The Great Gatsby". This movie features stars Leonardo Di Caprio playing the role of Jay Gatsby, Tobey McGuire as Nick Carraway, Jason Clarke as George Wilson, and Elizabeth Debicky as Jordan Baker. The budget for this movie was $110 million, and this film was mainly filmed in Sidney, Australia. "The Great Gatsby'' fits into the Drama and Romance genre, for its plot and its characters' motivation.
In my opinion, "The Great Gatsby" has some of the best acting done by its actors and it is a very catching film that makes you feel like you are in the 1920's and it makes you enjoy every bit of it. The film's main characters are played by outstanding famous actors, such as Leonardo Di Caprio, and this makes everything in the movie seem more realistic, which makes viewers feel like they are witnessing something real and it makes them believe the scenarios and situations that take place throughout the film. My favorite part of this film was the ending, which was quite an unexpected ending for someone like me, who had not read the novel. The ending of the movie is also very ironic because of reasons I will not tell because it may ruin the film for those who have no yet watched it, but this irony leaves viewers impressed because of the reasons behind the actions with which the film ends and because it is also very unexpected and it is very contradictory to what any viewer would expect to happen, which would have been very cliché.
I strongly recommend watching this film to almost anyone that has a good two hours and twenty-two minutes, because it is one of the best films that have been produced lately, not only because of its amazing quality of production but because of its intriguing plot. The film's main conflict is that Jay Gatsby wants to get back with the love of his life, the only problem is that she is now married, this motivates Gatsby to become friends with Nick to ask him to reunite them in a way that Gatsby considers to be casual. Nick is motivated to do as Gatsby asks him because of his friendship with him and because he realizes that even though she is a married woman, she used to love him and he truly loves her so much, he would be capable of sacrificing his own life, reputation and integrity for her's. This is an excellent example of an inter textual motivation due to the fact that it alludes to the novel "The Great Gatsby". This film is of great social importance, because it accurately depicts the United States during the roaring 20's right before its decline with the Great Depression and World War II. This movie is also of great entertainment value because, despite the fact that it is a quite long movie, it never gets boring or predictable, which keeps viewers interested in it throughout the entire movie and leaves them impressed with its unexpected, ironic and quite sad ending, as I said before.
There have been few movies longer than two hours that I have actually enjoyed and been interested in it entirely, because I tend to get bored after a good 120 minutes of watching someone struggling to solve their problems or to get what they want, and this is something that only makes me realize how good this film actually is, by keeping me curious, thoughtful, and worried for more than two hours, and this is why I recommend watching this film and enjoying a great plot, acting and production. However, despite the fact that I consider that this is probably one of my favorite movies, in my opinion it is not a film to be watched twice because if you know how the film is going to end, everything will seem stupid and the magnificent end to this movie would not be fully appreciated to to the fact that is not a mystery, which would keep the viewers engaged.
"The Great Gatsby" is one of the best movies that I have watched recently and this is because of its engaging plot and conflict, it unexpected and ironic ending, and its superior acting and production, and I would recommend anyone to watch this movie as you wont regret it, and it will probably leave you thinking about it and reflecting or maybe even feeling empathy for a few days after watching it, definitely a film to watch before dying.