Great Gatsby (2013)

The movie was based on the same name novel composed by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, which enjoys a very high reputation in America. The movie tells a beautiful and sorrowful love story. As the teller in the movie, writer Nick witnessed the whole tragedy of Gatsby. Nick went to New York, where lived his gorgeous cousin Daisy and her millionaire husband Tom, to chase his dream of America. His was invited to kinds of feasts and even taken to have fun with married women. Gradually, Nick found himself lost in a land of fascination, fake and lie. However, things changed since he met Gatsby. Gatsby is so special that he is the only person Nick found having a spirit of hope in this lost city. Nick was shocked and confused by the extravagant party Gatsby held at first, but he learned the secret hidden deeply in Gatsby's heart later. He loves Daisy, even though she didn't wait him and married rich man Tom. His love toward Daisy hadn't changed a little and he believes so had Daisy. After making the first step to try to retrieve the beloved women, Gatsby involved in a series of events and finally lost his life.

Gatsby failed and, personally, this is why he can be named "The Great Gatsby". His story perfectly explains the concept of America Dream. He was bore in a poor family,at the bottom of the society. Unfortunately, he had a crush on a girl, Daisy, who should never marry him. However, he never gave it up. In the race of time, he didn't make it. He succeed and Daisy married other man. The tragedy is that when everyone is trapped in a paradise made up by the gold and lies, Gatsby is the only guy who follows his own voice. His love is so genuine and fierce that he can barely realize how difficult it would be to break the fence of that "lost paradise". Just like the green light on the other side of the bank, his dream seems close but, actually, cannot be touched. Daisy was stuck in the sludge of wealth and lie. Instead of the call of love, Gatsby eventually received a bullet from the hypocritical world. Like other tragic characters in the works written by Aeschylus, the great Ancient Greek tragedian, Gatsby fights with the whole hypocritical upper society on his own. He is a extreme pure dreamer, he rejects to bend to the reality but maintain himself authentic all the time. He is really a great guy. I will give this movie 4 stars.