![]() Martin Scorsese, returning to his familiar realm of men behaving badly, isn’t interested in either side of that moral equation. Movies have always indulged in bad-but-thrilling behavior and gotten away with it by promising redemption or contrition in the end, whether it’s rooting for a bad guy to succeed or watching someone murder for the “right” reasons. Jordan Belfort rises to the top by scheming, lying, shamelessly screwing over the little guy, and behaving as badly as you can possibly imagine-he starts the film blowing coke into a woman’s ass, ends it by physically threatening his wife, and finds time to wreck a yacht in-between. The bad guys win, over and over again, in The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s the look on the faces of the people watching Belfort, who has transformed himself into a motivational speaker. ![]() But the key to the film is not the moment when Belfort is arrested, or even the public speech he gives in which he confesses he did things that were wrong. The Wolf of Wall Street is a familiar story about a rise and fall-Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort starts a shady stock-trading business, turns himself into a millionaire, then gets collared by the Feds for the dozens of illegal acts that got him there. ![]()
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