The Great Gatsby (Sara Donoso)

Summary:

• The movie is about Nick, a man who is a war veteran, who is also depressed and alcoholic who tells the story about a man named Gatsby. Describing him as the most optimistic man he has ever known. Nick moves in 1992 to New York and rents a house near the house of Jay Gatsby, a man who is very mysterious and throws big parties. Nick is the cousin of Daisy. Jay Gatsby tries to get close to Daisy and knowing that Nick is her cousin, invites him to one of his parties. When they become friends, Jay Gatsby ask him for a favor, to invite his cousin to drink tea in his house, so that he finally can see her after five year away from Daisy, always loving her. Then, when they finally get together again, they begin a new romantic story, trying to be together.

3 Characters:

• Jay Gatsby is a man who is deeply in love with Daisy, all his life has a meaning because of the existence of Daisy. I think that the cause of his fortune and all his acts in life is that he only wants to be back in the days where Daisy and he could act like two teenagers in love. So he becomes a serious man, after all that he have been through.

• Daisy is the girl that is in love with Jay Gatsby, and she was forced to get married with someone who she didn't loved anymore. After being obliged to it, she realizes that all that she can do is smile and be more optimistic, and she needs to accept with a good face all the things that come around in her life.

• Tom Buchanan is Daisy's husband, he is a very extroverted man. When he finds out that Daisy has been cheating on him with Gatsby, he gets very furious and i think that that makes him feel very humiliated, but, he is a very selfish man because he also cheated on Daisy.

Personal opinion:

• I likes the movie a lot, beside the fact that we didn't finished the whole movie, i think that the art direction is really beautiful, and also, i liked the performances. I felt very attracted to the film, i admire James Joyce and i don't really know if the movie made it justice to the novel, but so far, i liked it.