Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby is essentially everything you would expect Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby to be. It is rich with spectacle and kinetic emotion, lushly beautiful, soaked with gleaming and saturated color and fat with characters tormented with longing for the unattainable: be it love, the idealized version of their own lives, or simply a move beyond the crushing weight of “low born” poverty. In Gatsby’s case, it’s all of the above. Based on F.