: The Great Gatsby
I’ve never read the book but saw this film on my HD movie channel and it’s really good. I liked the way the story seems so simple but is really deep. The story, set in the 1920s, is told from the viewpoint of an outsider, a young man just out of school and starting life, and observing the life of the super-rich around him. Gatsby’s his millionaire neighbor and Daisy is his beautiful cousin. It turns out Gatsby has a thing for Daisy and so our narrator ends up in the middle. It is then the mysteries start to unveil as we learn that Gatsby’s money may come from criminal enterprises and that Daisy rejected him years ago when he was young because he was poor. Now he’s rich and a good candidate, but she’s married. The tragic ending is sad but feels right and inevitable. It’s a thoughtful film I thought would feel ponderous, but it moves surprisingly well, and there are some terrific performances from a young Sam Waterson (the prosecutor on Law and Order) and Robert Redford is the consumate Gatsby.
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