Many years ago, a light and frothy Mia Farrow was Miss
Daisy Buchanan to Robert Redford’s Jay Gatsby.
I have waited close to a year and a half to see this remake of what I
consider to be one of the better versions of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic
about the lives of the veddy, veddy rich and the desire to possess what was
never theirs in the first place. Carey
Mulligan and Leonardo diCaprio are the star-crossed/class-defined lovers. The sets, the narration, the music (which is
a combination of classic 20’s jazz and the perfectly matched remixes of
hip-hop, pop, and crying ballads) and the supporting cast are blended in a
nouveau flapper fresco that invokes another time. It rings in the desperation of crawling out
of the craziness that was the end of the Flapper Age and the beginning of the
Great Depression. Yes, folks, this is
what excess looks like and the lunacy of love.
Baz Luhrman has created a world just as fantastic as Long Island, the
Hamptons, and Manhattan, but did it in New South Wales. Amazing costumes, make-up, and the
cars…yikes…everything is perfect and follows the book to a “T”. Supporting
cast is excellent…if nothing else, it will get nominated for costumes, but I
think it’ll take many more of the awards.
Rating: 3.5 stars and the
piercing “Eyes of God” looking down upon us all.
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