The film confirms the universal power of faith and belief in yourself. Whoever you may be, your trump card is your faith. Fatalists believe in the inevitability of fate, Gatsby believes that the fate of his was just that, which he invented himself. He achieved the greatness that all was prepared for him since childhood (Churchwell).
The film is about how to love, loyalty on his dream. Of course, it is not easy, even dangerous, but maybe we should try it. As long as the person is alive, you can correct any mistakes; realize any dream, even a return to the past.
Firstly, the hero played by Leonardo Di Caprio is a mysterious millionaire, powerful and at the same time secretly vulnerable (which makes it a magnet for the girls). At that time America was born in what is now called "glamour". The time when the progressive youth was discovering and experiencing a revolution in women's fashion that neither before nor after did not change so radical and shocking.
Nick, a graduate of Yale (notable only because it sees and tells us the story), arrives in New York. And drawn into the sticky-hot jazz night city, allegedly prohibition, but in fact - is bathed in whiskey and champagne. Sinks, sluggish resisting, in the arms of dissolute young girls in hats and flirty flies. Sometimes visits his cousin Daisy and her husband - the American model of the rich, the owners of a perfect lawn and endless leisure time. However, much larger rich lives next door to Nick - in incredible ambition castle (Churchwell). Gatsby, the owner of the castle, rolls his party, which attracts the entire town - from the first to the very persons bohemia.
Dinner parties at Gatsby’s, exploding squeal and confetti, bristling feathers on the half-naked mulatto dancer, complete with extras as "War and Peace" - in fact, as you might guess, the main attraction of the film.
"The more we keep pace with the times, the more we drank, - says Nick. - And none of us did not create anything new or outstanding" (Churchwell). Most guests do not know Gatsby party host, even in the face, and about him are rumors he - a war hero, or vice versa - a German spy, and sometimes even relatives to Kaiser. Gatsby makes friends with Nick from the beginning incomprehensible persistence, and then reveals the card: he needs accidentally meet Daisy - old friend and even a dream.
Roman of F. Scott Fitzgerald firmly embedded in the school curriculum in the United States and in other countries - in all sorts of lists of "must-read." There have already been three film adaptation of the hangover sad stories about where dreams may come, and how careless riders driving luxury cars (both literally and figuratively) break "things and people" without any consequences for themselves. For the first time the novel into a film almost immediately after the release in 1926 (copies not preserved), then - in 1949 (Churchwell). It is immediately clear that the film hardly fit into the screen from the abundance of visual trick, 3D-effects and incredibly a decorated extras. What it will be inspired in half naive old Hollywood and modern pop culture. Music, for example, in "The Great Gatsby" is about the time of the tape, officially referred to as the "Jazz Age" - the modern, as well as once in "Moulin Rouge."
Jazz, a hundred years ago, is a former Negro obscene music, forcibly break into a dance, a satellite fumes and pure sex - now turned into an object of veneration intelligent regulars of Philharmonic (Churchwell). To experience what it was before, perhaps you can. But this requires the flexibility of perception, and people are reconciled with Hollywood movie history textbook and require everything to be "in the book," she just alien to.
The tragedy of Gatsby reflects the deep inner duality of the "American Dream." The origins of this duality go into the historical past of America, which has incorporated the spirit of freedom and independence, as well as the idea of material prosperity and individualism (Churchwell).
The ideological and moral pathos of the novel lies in the fact that in the interpretation of "Dream," the author proceeded from the notion of historical regularities. In accordance with this set and the figure of the protagonist, who appears as if in two dimensions: Gatsby - a romantic dreamer who worships beauty and goodness, and at the same time - support the ideals of society "consumption" in all its ostentatious grandeur and splendor (Churchwell). Historical insight and depth of artistic vision Fitzgerald as a writer is that unlike Gatsby he understands the inevitability of destruction of the "dream", conscious of the reasons for the collapse of illusions.
The collapse of the "dream" and illusions Gatsby opened the moral inconsistency of not only the "dream", but the whole of American society as a whole: a civilization in which the spiritual life is subject to full idea of material prosperity cannot be humane. Fitzgerald would not be so shrill if the portrayed the world of wealth was not so painfully powerful magnet (Churchwell). Therefore, a movie that focuses on glamor and shine, leaving the tragedy on the level of subtext, allowing it to appear from under a pink glaze - in general, preserves the essence of the case.
Today it is the fifth film adaptation of the same name novel of Fitzgerald, and it is revealing the history and mystery of the rapid career of a young wealthy Jay Gatsby and his failed love with a girl from high society Daisy Bakanay. In parallel, the story in the film develop the dramatic events of other couples from the working class, in which a married Mrs. Myrtle Wilson became the mistress of a rich man Tom Bakanay (Churchwell). And all this is to dissect the colorful illustrations from the life of the "rich and famous" 20-ies in the United States.
Fitzgerald is trying to prove that the "American dream" is tragic, because its problems are intractable. He debunks the popular social-ethical myth of achieving success every one of ease "the way up" in American bourgeois society (Churchwell).
In essence, this verdict of historical fate of the whole country, which is currently unattractive so little in common with the utopian hopes of the past. Gatsby condemned to death, because in contemporary America reigns triumphant soulless materialism "ubiquitous, vulgar, and meretricious beauty."
The whole point is that a person could do in your life, all what has been born and is able, in spite of the low start. What defying the conventions of society believed in their abilities and desires? The plot of the human struggle for the right to live the life, which is born, for which there are powers of the mind, the soul, the heart. All he had only scared girl. I chickened out. But you cannot blame her. At some point, you have to tell yourself that you realize in life more than others do. It is true hard.
Work Cited
Churchwell, Sarah. "The Great Gatsby And The American Dream". the Guardian. N.p., 2012. Web. 20 June 2016. Accessed at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/25/american-dream-great-gatsby
