And the music - what happened to the music? The soundtrack is wonderful, but we only hear slivers of most of it, and often not enough for the songs to enhance the movie's vision. Luhrmann can move too quickly from one overfull scene to the next, too, not giving the audience time to take it all in. Some scenes explode with so much visual stimulation that watching them feels rapacious and gluttonous - a perfect strategy for evoking the excesses of the Jazz Age, yes, but also distracting and hard to enjoy. The same criticisms can be brought to bear on The Great Gatsby. His cinematic canvasses have sometimes been dismissed for being overstuffed, his take on the classics - a mix of tradition and overwhelming modernism - muddled.
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