The Wolf on Wall ST has one more layer than meets the eye

Rating: 7/10 (10 February 2015)

The Wolf on Wall ST. is a movie about a man who survived. He started out his life as a pretty decent man, then he lost his job and with almost zero prospects, he ended up in the Penny Stocks business and from day one he was able to pull himself out of unemployment to having a constant job. The led character was labeled the Wolf. The movie was original in the sense of cinematic experience. The theme of the movie was pretty sordid - with ripping off others as the main element - but the lead character seemed to not have a clue to his defective character - and this actually made him a sympathetic character. I do not think that, for one minute, did he think that what he was doing was wrong. I believe he thought it was justified. Is this the zone of a sociopath, or just an ambitious human being - who seemed to be operating well in the cut-throat America. If he was at fault in his acting and thinking - whose fault would that be? The whole American culture? Is this not, in a way, the Jim Morrison gene? The gene of destructive- self destructive ultimately .... America - even though it often seems like a Dream - the City on the Hill - but actually America is probably the most cut-throat boom or bust country in the world in 2014 New York had 50 thousand homeless people - I believe that some of those individuals, if not all, where victims in one way or another of the boom or bust fast-paced commercial environment of America. In a way The Wolf on Wall St is like a modern day Western / Cowboy movie - only this time the protagonists and the villains seemed to have blurred roles. This movie is really a nightmare - but the way it is filmed - was mystifying and hence switched the nightmare into a kind of dream.