


We see Nick Carraway’s diagnoses in close-up: Morbidly Alcoholic, Insomniac, Fits of Anger, Anxiety. Inside, Nick Carraway speaks to a psychiatrist, who opens up his file. The more in tune with the times we were, the more we drank, and none of us contributed anything new.” The mansion is revealed to be The Perkins Sanitarium. Nick continues, “Back then, all of us drank too much. As a consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, but even I have a limit.” As a white light flashes across the screen, the camera pans over a harbor towards a giant mansion in the snow.

We hear Nick Carraway in voiceover say, “In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice: always try to see the best in people, he would say. Gold art deco designs fill the screen as the viewer is transported through a portal towards a green light across a harbor on a misty evening. Classic 1920s jazz music plays as the film starts.
