Movies usually express ideas in a clearer way than books do. This holds true for the famous novel "The Great Gatsby" as well. After watching the film, every little segment and event about the book in my mind is now combined with all those vivid pictures to form an invisible link. But despite the clear advantage of the film, it also hides its own flaws beneath itself.
The biggest disadvantage of the film is that it is only a shortened version of the book. The movie contains only the dialogues - and clearly not even all the dialogues in the book, but the conversations are only a small portion of the book itself and stand little significance. …
