Scorcese's latest, starring Leonardo DiCaprio who shares the production credits with Scorcese is a dramatisation of the true life story of a former Wall Street stockbroker who created the penny shares trading scam of 1980s USA.
The film contains a lot of shouting, a lot of (heterosexual) sex, a lot of recreational drug use and its consequences both short- and long-term, and a lot of self-satisfied over-indulgence from the director and his leading man. It is a very long film, and it doesn't have the directorial flair or pace of the essentially similar and highly entertaining 2002 DiCaprio vehicle Catch Me If You Can.
I confess that I came to the film believing erroneously that connections would be made about the role of trader excesses and the 2008 banking crisis. I was wrong and that may have, in part, given rise to my irritation with the protagonist & his excessive world.
Perhaps you feel differently?
The film contains a lot of shouting, a lot of (heterosexual) sex, a lot of recreational drug use and its consequences both short- and long-term, and a lot of self-satisfied over-indulgence from the director and his leading man. It is a very long film, and it doesn't have the directorial flair or pace of the essentially similar and highly entertaining 2002 DiCaprio vehicle Catch Me If You Can.
I confess that I came to the film believing erroneously that connections would be made about the role of trader excesses and the 2008 banking crisis. I was wrong and that may have, in part, given rise to my irritation with the protagonist & his excessive world.
Perhaps you feel differently?
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