This week we conclude our Baz Luhrmann season with his most recent film, 2013's THE GREAT GATSBY. We have disparate opinions on this, and differing levels of familiarity with the story, but then we move onto a discussion of the movie's presentation of different ideas about wealth, concepts of class and race on-screen in various countries, and the extent to which the film works as a presentation of the very social dislocation that is its subject.
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