A gilded movie

Rating: 8/10 (18 September 2013)

Tawdry, fancy, flamboyant and resplendent, the movie centers mostly on demonstrating the degeneration of the beat generation, thus tilting the balance between visual effect and underlying story(some of the scenes actually look fake) Initially I was so bewildered by the movie, more specifically this blunt story, that I couldn't believe such a renowned book only tells a commonplace love tragedy. It seemed no profound truth to be gained. Then one day, strolling on the way home, I was suddenly enlightened: we are all Gatesby. Harboring great expectations for the future, we pursue the green light across the river, arduously reach out both arms and exert all we have graping the twinkling in the mist while actually drifting far away. Yes, the ideal future is either what we already have or what is not accessible.