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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 …

…book, there suddenly appeared a picture with all the characters in the book standing in front of Gatsby's mansion - Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Nick... But in the middle of the crowd, there appeared a totally unfamiliar face of an old man holding out a copy of "The Great Gatsby" with his finger pointing to the huge font "Fitzgerald" on top of the cover as the whole cast smiled peacefully toward the bottom of my mind...