Now there is a very popular word, called "love brain", which is embodied in the fact that once in love, all the energy and mind are put on the lover, and are willing to pay any price in exchange for the satisfaction of the other party.
Revisiting "The Great Gatsby" makes me think about a question: Is Gatsby a love brain?
He rose to the top and turned himself into a legend.
He had big dreams, but in the end he died of love.
01. Is the love of the door to the door the destination?
When Gatsby first met Daisy, he was a young officer and she was the Golden Girl. The two young men fell in love at first sight at the banquet and spent the best time of their lives until the war separated them.
When Gatsby returns from the war, Daisy is married to the rich second generation Tom.
When the movie sees this, it laments their misses.
But in fact, their ending was laid at the beginning.
At that grand banquet, Daisy's mother mentioned that the officers she came were either rich or expensive, and asked her to seize the opportunity. Gatsby, dressed in military uniform, intrudes into Daisy's world.
02, the great dream, into a delicate love fantasy
Gatsby was not originally named Gatsby, he was born into a poor family, but he has had a big dream since he was a child, and this dream is only known by the starry sky outside his window.
When he grew up a little, Gatsby escaped, accidentally saved a rich man, changed his name and surname, and got the stepping stone of the rich class. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the inheritance left to him by his adoptive father was cheated away by other family members of the rich. Gatsby became an empty-named and actually poor officer.
Daisy married, gave him a fatal blow, indulged in the dream of love Gatsby began to start a business, spent five years, became a rich generation. He bought the villa and looked across the sea from the Daisy couple; he held dances night and night just so that he could meet Daisy again one day; he asked everyone he met, trying to relive old dreams with his lover five years earlier.
Gates made a wish, and Daisy came. At their first meeting after the reunion, he sorted out his style again and again, ran away when he was about to meet, and then braved the rain to come back. They hugged, talked, danced... Began a love affair.
Gatsby's desire also changed from being a leader to being with Daisy for a long time, until death separated them.
During the showdown with Tom, they had a heated argument. Gatsby naively wants her to say "never loved Tom", while Daisy just wants to elope. Perhaps from beginning to end, she never thought of being with Gatsby in the open.
The quarrel caused the emotions of all three parties to lose control, and Daisy drove her car and killed Tom's mistress who rushed into the road, and Tom blamed Gatsby and killed him with the pistol of her mistress husband.
Until the moment of death, Gatsby still carries the illusion of spending his life with Daisy.
The phone rang and so did the gunshots.
Gatsby's life was over.
03, love brain Gatsby vs green tea girl Daisy?
Up to now, Gatsby can be regarded as a "love brain", "licking the dog", with a great future, you have to go after your ex-girlfriend who has been married, and finally take your life. Daisy, on the other hand, will be defined as a vain green tea gold worship woman, abandoning love for money, and breaking the connection with her ex-boyfriend. As for her husband, Tom, he is a scumbag who has a good family and does not want to have an affair. This movie, at once, became an eight-o'clock dog blood drama of all the evil people.
Gatsby's greatness is not that he wants to get ahead, nor that he is obsessed with love, but that he "does not recognize his life" .
Why is the class born, why the success achieved through their own efforts is not recognized by the mainstream, and why can't they love a different woman.
On the contrary, Daisy was a confessor. From the moment she was born, she was destined to live a life of drunkenness.
This is also the core of their eventual parting ways. Even if Gatsby hadn't died, they were doomed not to be together.
Dying in a dream of anticipation is perhaps the best ending for Gatsby.