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The Great Gatsby opened to mixed critical reviews, but this blogger highly recommends seeing the movie, if for no other reason than Leonardo DiCaprio's mesmerizing performance as Jay Gatsby, the eponymous character shrouded in mystery.
The film depicts the lavish excesses of the nouveau riche in the 1920's. Although the extravagant representation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's description of Gatsby's decadent parties sometimes overshadows the novel's theme, DiCaprio never fails to bring the viewer back to the love story that drives his ambition and dominates his every action. He loves another man's wife and will stop at nothing to convince her to leave her husband and marry him.
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The narrator, Nick Carraway, tells the story as a flashback when he is in a sanatorium recovering from alcoholism. His doctor suggests writing the story, when Carraway has difficulty articulating his memories aloud. Tobey Maguire, as Carraway, performs his role with precision and artfully demonstrates how easily a person living during that time would succumb to the lure of alcohol and the wanton, degenerate lifestyle of the rich and famous.
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The Great Gatsby offered a perfect platform for DiCaprio to showcase the range of his talents. Some of my friends and I recently discussed the demise of quality actors like Cary Grant, who could move seamlessly from drama to comedy and not leave viewers feeling they had been betrayed. See the movie for yourself and witness the kind of performance too rare in a sea of silly sequels and films that fail to demonstrate something other than gratuitous violence or sex. Thoughtful audiences can't help but draw a parallel with some of the drawbacks of twentieth century living.
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