Film Review 4

Cast:

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby
• Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway
• Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan
• Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan
• Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson
• Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker
• Adelaide Clemens as Catherine
• Jason Clarke as George Wilson
• Amitabh Bachchan as Meyer Wolfsheim
• Max Cullen as Owl Eyes
• Brendan Maclean as Klipspringer
• Jack Thompson as Nick Carraway's Doctor, Walter Perkins
• Kate Mulvany as Mrs. Mckee
• Callan McAuliffe as Young Jay Gatsby
• Tasman Palazzi as young Gatsby
• iOTA as Trimalchio
• Vince Colosimo as Michaelis
• Stephen James King as Nelson
• Gemma Ward as Languid Girl

 New York,1929. Bond-seller Nick Carraway in a sanitarium for depression and alcoholism was persuaded by his doctor to write a therapeutic account of what put him there. Nick's journal described how seven years earlier,he had moved to a tiny house on Long Island adjoining the sumptuous mansion owned by enigmatic neighbour,the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby. After attending one of Gatsby's legendary parties Nick was asked by Gatsby to arrange a meeting with his cousin Daisy married to the brutish and philandering Tom Buchanan, who was Gatsby's true love prior to war service. As Nick complied he came to see that Gatsby once a poor boy had recreated himself as a fascinating millionaire purely to win Daisy back but the events of a drunken afternoon conspired to bring about an ending which is anything but happy


The Great Gatsby is a great film! I like DiCaprio and Debicki as well as the themes that shine through.Cinematography is excellent. Some of the dance scenes are magnificent. Really not for young kids as there is a lot of talking - not a lot of action. I think this version of Gatsby will surely live on for years to come.

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Kitty returned to Hong Kong where she was met by Dorothy Townsend  who convinced Kitty to come to stay with them. At the Townsend house, she was seduced by Charles and made love with him one more time despite admitting he was vain and shallow, much as she once was. She was disgusted with herself and told him what she thought of him. Kitty returned to the UK and found out that her mother died. Her father was appointed Chief Justice of a minor British colony in the Caribbean and she persuaded her father to allow her to accompany him there where she intended to dedicate her life to her father and to ensuring her child was brought up to avoid the mistakes she had made.

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Then Kitty met Waddington, a British deputy commissioner.  He further introduced her to the French nuns who were nursing  the sick and orphaned children of the cholera epidemic. Walter had immersed himself in the difficulties of managing the cholera crisis. His character was held in by the nuns and the native officials, due to his self-sacrifice and tenderness towards the suffering children. Kitty remained unable to feel attraction towards him as man and husband. Kitty met with the Mother Superior yet loved and respected. The nun allowed Kitty to assist in caring for the older children at the convent, but would not permited her to engage with the sick and dying. Kitty’s regard for her deepened and grew. Kitty discovered that she was pregnant and suspected that Charles Townsend was the father. Rather than  Walter answer to it she told him the truth  that she did not know. She could not  bring herself to deceive her husband again. Kitty had undergone a profound personal transformation. After that Walter felt ill in the epidemic, possibly through experimenting upon himself to find a cure for cholera and Kitty heard his last words.

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After that Walter announced an ultimatum to Kitty . She must either accompany him to the Chinese interior to deal with a cholera epidemic, risking death, or he would file for divorce. With the proviso that he would allow Kitty to divorce him if Dorothy Townsend agreed to divorce Charles. After that Charles agreed to remarry Kitty immediately. Kitty went to see Townsend who revealed his perfidy and refused to leave his wife. Their conversation unfolds gradually, as Kitty grasped Charlie's true nature. She was surprised to find when she returned home that Walter has already had her clothes packed. He knew Townsend would let her down. Heartbroken and disillusioned, Kitty decided she has no option but to accompany Walter to the cholera-infested mainland of China.

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After some weeks in the Far East, Kitty met Charles Townsend who was an assistant colonial secretary. He was tall and handsome. They began to have an sexual affair. After two years, Walter observed Kitty and Charles during an assignation and the lovers had been discovered and reassured themselves that Walter wuold not intervened in the matter. Charles promised Kitty that, come what may, he would standed by her. Aware that the cuckolded Walter was his administrative inferior, Charles felt confident that the bacteriologist would avoid scandal to protect his career and reputation. Kitty, who had never felt real affection for her husband grasped that  he was fully awared of her infidelity  and she began to despise his apparent cowardice. She discerned an ominous change in his behavior.

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After that we can read about what was happened before all this events. Kitty Garstin was a very pretty upper-middle class woman, squandering her early youth amusing herself at different  social events, during which her mother attempted to arrange the best men  for her. By age 25, Kitty had flirted with  and declined the marriage proposals of dozens of suitors. Her mother convinced that her eldest daughter has missed her market, urging Kitty to settle for the rather odd Walter Fane, a bacteriologist and M.D., who was fell in love with Kitty. Shortly before Kitty's sister Dorice much grander wedding, Kitty and Walter departed as newlyweds to his post in Hong Kong.