Good movie, excessive human degradation

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2014)

This movie is very good indeed. Beautiful photography and acting by Jack Dawson, sorry, Leonardo DiCaprio. However, it is too long, one hour and a half would have been more than enough. And the worst part of it: It has too much sex (looks like an adult movie in some scenes), too much drugs, too much vice, too much scamming, too much of human degradation. I'm sure this picture would have been much more impacting without so many demonstrations of human decadence. I know that all these situations attract viewers but I think that they were absolutely unnecessary in an otherwise excellent film. I can't imagine what would have happened if this movie was made in the 50s. The censorship would have banned it almost completely. I'm not against showing real life occurrences in a movie, but I think in this case the director exaggerated by including such degradation situations as orgies, how to use cocaine and how to deceive honorable investors. A message can be transmitted without disrespecting the human being. And perhaps the worst part of all this, why show fighting situations in front of a small child?