The Wolf Of Wall Street feels like a rehash of one of Scorsese’s favourite themes - people’s willingness to embrace crime to attain the American dream - but here there’s more anger and ambiguity in the telling. Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of his time working on Wall Street, this dark comedy rubs our nose in its amoral tone for three hours, producing a luridly watchable, often funny tale of the rise and fall of an unscrupulous young broker in the 1980s and ‘90s. Goodfellas without the guns, The Wolf Of Wall Street finds director Martin Scorsese once again essaying an epic on American corruption, except this time it’s in the land of stockbrokers instead of mobsters.
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