Here is the 71-year-old beast, back again with yet another
masterpiece, delivering the modern day goodfellas kind of gangster (Stock Brokers)
story. This movie will make you laugh in every single opportunity and at last
will make you feel guilty for what you did and its undoubtedly Scorsese’s best
work after The Departed.
Debauchery has never been captured so sharply on screen, and
The Wolf is few minutes short of three hour long drunk story, it’s a mix of
cautionary that’s spectacular and equally repulsive.
Jordan Belfort character is highly unlikely and hilarious at
some instances. When the story unfolds, you find it hard to believe them and
feel it over the top. But it is real and the amount of excess and
overindulgence that Wall Street honchos engage in is ridiculous. Show those
guys this film and they’ll clap and cheer at Belfort’s wrongdoings.
Leo has delivered one of his career best performances, I
have a strong belief that he is a great dramatic actor, but his insane comic
timing was a treat to watch. He has played the role just like any hotshot top
level Wall Street Banker.
Take the special performances from Boiler Room(2000),
multiply by thousand and that’s still less awesome, when compared to Leonardo
Diacaprio’s portrayal as Jordan Belfort. There is this ten minute long
sequence, where Jonah and leo intake lemon ludes( A special kind in Ludes). When
it hits, Leo can't get his stability to walk, then decides to crawl back to the car, drive all the way
back home out of all his wits and then suddenly watches Popeye eating
spinach. He suddenly will feel the adrenaline rush and snorts some cocaine to get
back to his senses. This scene will hold a special place in the filmmaking
schools in the following decades on “how to deliver an insane badass
performance”. As always the Leo-Scorsese
team is a treat to watch, we should be privileged to be alive during this era.
Jonah Hill, is showing high maturity with every single film. He has
delivered another stunning performance along with a short yet powerful cameo’s
from a dozen of actors like McConaughey, Jean Djuradin and many other stalwarts delivering their
badass charm to the movie.
The outrage over explicit sex content and glorified drug use
is bullshit. It is not a misogynist movie, portrayal of misogynist stuff
is never a defense of misogyny and drugs, but if you enjoy the stuff happening
on screen then the joke is on you. If you continue to say so, it is a sin that
you have never really got the concept of Scorsese movies. Scorsese made sure,
Belfort is not going to be victimized for the drug trap and he also made sure
that the movie disregards his behavior. He was portrayed as a narcist individual
wiling to do all the badass things.
Belfort was greedy with money, drugs and sex and Scorsese
offered the movie everything that Belfort aspired for and gets into more bizarre
scenarios for a breathtaking roller coaster ride. Most of
the scenes where long, with high energy levels in an ecstatic mode throwing us
shock in every turn, that you could never move your eyeballs. It is a must watch movie, to know how the
Belfort kind of retards gets out with a minor punishment, while the normal
criminal with much less charges ends up in prison and rot till death.
Rating: 4/5
