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Well, the appearance of another film of F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby” gives us an opportunity to reflect an what many consider to be The great American novel. If you are looking for real detail of the review of the film ква блеать film you might be disappointed. I’d like to reflect more at the story that lies behind it. I will say this about the film I think the Baz Luhrmann version is better than the sleepy 1974 version and that Leonardo DiCaprio makes a better Gatsby then Robert Redford. Um, but I again I think this story is what is most important here. As you know Scott Fitzgerald began to belong to that famously lost generation of writer and artists – people that came of age during the First World War, which is really the worst calamity you could say in human history, it was the most shocking calamity is western civilization stumbled into this horrible crisis. These people witnessed it first hand, they also witnessed the fact that no institution political, cultural or religious really was able to deal with this crisis. And it set many of these young man adrift, so слова глотать не надо stain and famously called them “the lost generation”. Most famously Hemingway, but also John Doss Passos and Ford Maddox Ford and F. Scott Fitzgerald accords belongs a (the) course to that generation. Think of Hemingway whom I love as a writer but we finding Hemingway is this fascination with edgy experiences whether it’s your bullfighting or deep sea fishing or or \or battling you know political opponents, Hemingway had to put himself in these kind of limit situations to stir up a sense of life. It was his way of dealing with the collapse of meaning, the collapse of sort of moral and spiritual structure around that time. Well, scott Fitzgerald I think becomes a chronicler maybe the best chronicler of another way that people handle the collapse of meaning and that was to surrender to a life of Conspicuous consumption. And the Great Gatsby is a farry telling commentary and just that tendency , scene of the story well, it deals with Tom and Daisy Buchanan who are denizens of East egg which is an old town on long island Long Island , where were a lot of the old money resides and these are people who have everything you possibly want it terms of wealth. They've got the riches they have surveillance they have a beautiful home. There’s a great scene in the new version of Gatsby where we meet them for the first time and you see although luxury that surrounds them. But there they are really in other boredom. There's another scene not long after that one, so Daisy who is just falls into a languid life of regret and then her husband Tom is running off with all these sexual affairs with both people of the lower class and the upper class. The\ There’s scene toward the beginning the movie, which is basically a drunken orgy that takes place, in a Manhattan apartment that Tom owns he invites a group of his friends may just spend the afternoon you know drinking and carrying on and and carousing. At the end of it everybody who was involved in that drunken orgy are just weasless and lifeless and unhappy so we see this picture of this life. Well then we meet the main character of the novel and of the film gatsby himself . Gatsby lives in the in West egg, just across the Bay from East egg where some other newer money resides. Gatsby is a grand figure he wears a flashy suits he drives his yellow roadster he lives in even more impressive mansion and the buchanans . And every Saturday night he throws this magnificent party to which all the Гвидуради of New York are invited. We discover that the purpose that party is to lure Daisy back . Daisy and he had a relationship some years before, he still pining after her hoping to revive it and hoping that he can lure this now married woman back into a relationship. The parties are maybe the highly in the book and the movies is there this explosion of nineteen twenties you know music and jazz in the nineteen twenties outfits and the flappers and all this business. And you see this wild expression of conspicuous consumption those Gatsby’s parties. Well I’m not go to any more details the story only to say that these people whose lives are utterly given to the satisfaction of their sensual desires. The story ends a disastrously, with the death of Gatsby at the hands of a gun. There’s a thing about the story and why it matters for us today. F. Scott Fitzgerald himself knew that world well mean he was a denizen of that world he was the famous for his drinking and his carousing. Nevertheless, I should say really because of that he becomes a great moral surveyor of that situation. He sees in a very clear-eyed way that what happens when morality, spirituality, a sense of transcendent purpose are lost what happens is this corroding of a soul, which is apparent every major character in The Great Gatsby. Even though he was himself a bit of a carouser there he's like a transcendently clear moralist when it comes to seeing what goes on. This’s\ is a town that lies in between West Egg in Manhattan and the characters go back and forth through it all during the story. It's a kind of burnt out, underdeveloped economically depressed area while the field poor people live there. And scott Fitzgerald curry’s commenting on the sort of debt readers of the Roaring Twenties, what made that high life possible was an awful lot of economic exploitation so we're meant to see the kind a dark underbelly of American life at that time, but something more going on because right in the middle of that burnt brutal town there's the remains of billboard. It was advertising ophthalmologist so it's all you see are pare of eye surrounded by these owlish glasses, but as the people go back and forth through little town the eyes are watching. Well, that’s too much symbolic imagination to see that those eyes are symbolic of God. God who watches everything, who sees everything. Many people (of) the Roaring Twenties as many people today bracket God marginalize God. There's no transcendent purpose, there's no moral absolutes. All we should do is live our lives is kind of as wildly and freely as we can. We should live our lives in a conspicuous consumption. No, like it or not, believe it or not, God is watching. There is a transcendent purpose, there is amoral absolute. When you forget it what happens in the lives of the characters in the great Gatsby. So if you're tempted to say who needs God, I would say to you watch this movie based upon a book that was written by a very clear-eyed moralist who preaches a very good sermon that is still worth hearing.