A scathing review in the Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/review-the-great-gatsby-1.1394679 It would be most unfair � though satisfying � to suggest that Luhrmann has taken the book into the loo and wiped his bum with it. In fact, the script sticks reasonably close to Fitzgerald�s plot. A ludicrous, tacked-on framing sequence does, however, alert us to the impending war on subtlety.