The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is an American film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, a combination that seems to work very well. Despite its long duration, it has a fast and agile pace. A film that, when it seems, that everything will end, that the end is coming and that nothing else can happen, surprises us with something even stranger and yet very real.
Scorsese has become one of those directors that we don’t like to give a lot of criticism of, because they are many of his excellent films: Taxi Driver, Indomitable Bull, The Good Companions, Casino, The Aviator and a myriad of titles that carry his Although for many the film can be excessively long, the truth is that Scorsese achieves his goal: to expose another of the many facets of American society , the real herd of wolves that inhabits Wall Street.
- The film.
- However surreal.
- Is inspired by the memories of Jordan Belfort.
- A runner who has been accused of countless crimes related to the manipulation of money and who then devoted himself to lectures on his past mistakes and ethics in the business world.
The celebrated actor Leonardo DiCaprio, at the time still without the Oscar statuette, plays this charismatic and influential character, leaving the viewer completely perplexed in some scenes and leading him to question the morality of this Wall Street wolf.
Jordan Belfort looks like a villain Robin Hood who steals from the rich to give himself and his merry band of runners. ?The Wolf of Wall Street-
The film begins with a newlywed young Jordan Belfort, who begins to immerse himself in the world of the stock market; We will soon discover that Jordan has an exceptional talent for this profession and that, although he does not know about the entire business world, he achieves great professional achievements in a short time.
Jordan is convinced that he knows how to get rich, how to really be, in the world of the stock market. He then started his own business, starts selling poor-quality stock to people who are let down by his disrecognise of the stock market world and will end up selling to America’s richest. This company will grow at a frenetic pace, pace and therefore also its revenue. He was even interviewed by Forbes magazine, which gave him the nickname “The Wolf of Wall Street”.
What does Jordan demand from his employees? No matter your education, the important thing will be the ability to persuade, you must save, the key is to sell, sell and sell. He manages to convince his future employees that they will get rich and thus get happiness; they will be able to buy the best car, the best house, have the best wife and live a life of endless excess and luxury.
The quality of leadership and its great power of communication will make Jordan the perfect runner: a man in need of scruples, morality or empathy, who only cares about filling his pocket, all this rejoicing of power will lead him to leave his wife and marry A young model It is interesting to see how the profile of the runner evolves over time , but we clearly have its main motivations: competitiveness, ambition, power, money and status.
The characters portrayed by Scorsese lack scruples, fear not abusing, trampling or sabotaging others to achieve their goals. We’ve seen some really disturbing scenes, like when an employee shaves his head to get money, violent drug scenes or a plane. It seems that these characters have no limits, but money and power, but they always want more. His ambition grows into an addiction.
Amid all the chaos and stress of the stock market world, Jordan gives his employees doses of adrenaline and “happiness” by turning his business into a real spectacle where anything is possible: prostitutes, drugs, parties, money flying through the air. . . everything, absolutely everything, so that its employees reach the state of euphoria and become more and more ambitious.
“My name is Jordan Belfort, I am a former middle class member, raised by two accountants in a small apartment in Bayside, Queens. By the time I was 26, I was already the head of my own runner. I made $49 million, I left because there was a lean million a week?The Wolf of Wall Street?
it shows the other side of the world of finance, globalization and today’s capitalism, especially the most powerful people. Jordan is a middle-class young man who makes his way into a world that seems inaccessible to the vast majority of mortals. In addition, it becomes the largest shark in the aquarium. Is Jordan a genius? It is impossible to deny your natural talent and your great communicative capacity, but your ambition will lead you to overcome all the ethical limits we can imagine.
All this professional success, questionable legalities and the frenetic pace of his life are not easy to handle, so it’s no surprise that Jordan uses drugs to stay awake; immersed in a world of excesses, it will make crazy things unthinkable to most people. in your life it will be too much: from work to sex, to the family environment.
Drugs, especially cocaine, and rampant sex give Jordan the energy to do his job. He considers himself invincible and therefore offers the same to his employees. However, this effect of ecstasy and euphoria is only momentary and, in the long run, will be deeply harmful to your life.
In this case, gangsters seem to wear suits and ties, own yachts, mansions and, instead of guns, carry phones, ambition leads our character to be a man thirsty for power, money, and it is precisely this innumerable amount of money that will lead you to an unreal and irrational world, where your personal relationships have been relegated to a virtually non-existent plan.
Everything is artifice in Jordan’s life, everything can be bought and everything is allowed, even women, who will be objectified and relegated only on the sexual plane. There are no unattainable goals in his life, Jordan has full confidence in himself and knows that he can achieve everything he does, he shows the other side of the coin in the world of finance, in the world of Wall Street, he introduces us to a character that we would have a lot to question, but who can also teach us a lot of lessons.
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep making up to explain why you can’t reach it. “Jordan Belfort?