Also, throughout the movie, Belfort is investigated by an FIB agent with a humble, middle class background and distaste for the arrogant and wealthy elite. In an uncensored and seemingly glorifying fashion that is customary to Scorsese films, we see Belfort’s addiction to heavy drugs, strippers, prostitutes, and basically everything materialistic.
As Jordan Belfort and his firm grow in power and accumulate more and more wealth, the audience receives a first-hand, raw view of the perks of the high profile broker’s life. With Donnie’s help, Jordan opens up Straton Oakmont, an organization of con-men selling penny stocks to the public for high prices. He later meets Donnie Azoff, who agrees to start a business with him. Using his conniving attitude and deceitfulness, Belfort begins to accumulate wealth fast. He finds work at a small office in Long Island selling penny stocks for virtually no money but with fifty percent commission. The plot begins in 1987 as Belfort quickly becomes immersed in the fast pace, boisterous world of Wall Street, and just as quickly, loses his job due to the recession of 1987, known as Black Monday. The story is narrated by DiCaprio as Belfort as he chronologically retells the tale of his enormous success with his brokerage firm, Straton Oakmont and his wild ride involving drugs, prostitutes, and the FBI along the way. In possibly the most uncensored, raucous, and contentious manner imaginable, Scorsese documents the illegal business ventures and wild, racy escapades of Belfort and his partner Donnie Azoff, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill respectively. The film is a biographical account of the life of Jordan Belfort, a fraudulent penny-stock broker from Long Island with a ravenous hunger for wealth and power, which explains his logical title as the Wolf of Wall Street. I truly hold The Wolf of Wall Street as the most entertaining, explosive, and simply awesome film of this past movie season. One could say that that is a bit obsessive, especially regarding a film that did not even win an Oscar this year, but I don’t believe awards solely assess the greatness of films. The reason I saw it originally was because of my love of Martin Scorsese films, and since its release on Christmas Day this past year, I have seen his newest cinematic project four times in theatres and about three more times illegally online. And then I saw it again a week later, and again, and then one more time for kicks. About two months ago, I saw The Wolf of Wall Street in theatres for the first time.
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