Only someone totally inept such as Baz Luhrmann would slap a rap soundtrack on a 20s setting. Literally nobody else would do this, because it's so profoundly stupid. Is it pandering to rap fans among the millennials and zoomers, or is it pandering to the decadent black culture of the present? It could be both.

Who has been pandering to rap music since its very inception? Liberals, always. They love its decadence, non-musicality, while willfully ignoring the violence and sexism which they are allegedly totally against. Rap music was always pushed by the left, because it is the ideal soundtrack to the end of Western civilization, and a great way to virtue-signal because you're allegedly helping a "poor community" by allegedly allowing its talent to prosper. If white males had started a music which was all about boasting, machismo, crime and hoes - liberals would have thrown it deep into the underground. Placing rap music on top of a classic novel set 100 years ago is a totally leftist thing. Marxist propaganda works in various ways, it isn't just DEI and girl-bossing - as some reviewers here believe. There are at least 30 different ways in which leftism can contaminate a movie, not just two or three.

Obviously the novel itself has somewhat of a left-wing slant, because why else would Hollywood do it several times, but Luhrmann made it even more liberal.

Horrendous cast, obviously, because that is another staple of this director.