For me, The Wolf of Wall Street operated at
several different levels. At one level is the unavoidable allusions – the Mayflower
(twice!), the crazy partying,choices related to marquee employers/small employers/entrepreneurship, the kid that’s oh so
close in spite of all that is going on in life, the back pain pills – what can
one say save what an outcome in spite of it all?! At another level is the debauchery,
the over-the-top movie, the living-on-the-edge recklessness combined with high performance,
the coke high to get over the lemmon high, perception versus reality across it
all. Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Martin Scorcese come together to
produce a one-of-a-kind movie that is profane, intense, irretrievably
materialistic and out-and-out a one of a kind movie. Absolutely unmissable,
whether you belong to the 99% or the 1%
16/20
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