"He had come such a long way and his dreams must have seem so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it but he did not know that it was already behind him. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Truth be told, i wasn't expecting much from this movie. I knew it was going to sell well, I mean Leo? Tobey? Carrey? Isla? Long Island? extravagant production and a matching classic book to match. Not to mention CALLAN MCAULIFFE was there in like ten freaking minutes. I just didnt expect it to appeal to me to the extent of making me want to purchase a paper back copy at the spur of the moment. This movie shall scar my soul for it crafted without any effort a commotion in my own boundless universe because honestly, that is all I have , through that motion my infinity stretches.
Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate moves next door to a mysteriously filthy rich Jay Gatsby in Long Island. Deep down Nick always had the intuition that he was being watched by the billionaire until one night he received an invitation into one of the profligate parties his neighbor holds. Before he knew it , he had become the keeper of secrets of the inhabitants of Long Island.
I really hated Daisy in here for leaving everything that she smashes and being easily influenced by her philandering husband. As for Gatsby, despite being a bootlegger, i could say i really pitied the way his life tragically ended. He waited for daisy for five years, he reached out for that green light every night. He built his right across hers, if you don't consider that quixotic i don't know what it is. Nick Carraway pushed me in this ditch when he looked out from that flat's window in New York, when he became enchanted with the inexhaustible variety of life.
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”