Luhrmann is very clearly concerned with examining and moreover reinvigorating an era-defining myth rather than engaging in a decidedly far less interesting close character study. Such a choice casts a massive disparity between this and other films before it (e.g., Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman) which seem to be far too interested in the scope of their titular characters’ self-contained individuality–of which their poorly engineered reckonings with male sexuality are most certainly a product–rather than centering in on the effect the…