money and power as a measure of success in life

Rating: 3/10 (3 June 2014)

After watching The Departed (2006) and Shutter Island (2011) i though that Martin Scorsese got a grip on himself. Well, i was wrong. The Wolf of Wall Street was a platform for profanities in an attempt to prove that money is the only measure of all things in life. The box office performance might speak against my opinion, though.
I can only assume that the target group for this movie were the people conditioned by watching reality television. They probably think that Jackass was funny, The Hunger Games had revolutionary potential and Marvel/DC comic books adaptations were cinematic masterpieces. And when this audience gets out of the theater they might dream of becoming the wolves of Wall Street when they grow up, either literally or spiritually. After all, money and power are what matters in this universe.
If they get lucky in that dream space, they might strike a deal with the authorities for shorter jail terms for money laundering or whatever fraud they were up to. During the sentence they would write an autobiography and become famous. And with some luck, this would be brought to screen by a renown director.