"Sell me this pen"...as it wrote a perspicuous blockbuster.

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2014)

Terence Winters. Martin Scorsese. Leonardo Di Caprio.
The trio made pretty much of what The Wolf of Wall Street is all about. Belfort penned it, Terence adopted, Scorsese gave his splendid vision to the book and well all of it and everything else wouldn't make a crumb of a difference, had it not been DiCaprio to act with such an ease yet be marvelous at it. His acting and presence on celluloid took it to an entire different level altogether.
The movie is about a twisted robin hood, a tale which explores a swindled slice of life, its about a penny stockbroker who raised from nowhere and became an iconic figure for those who believed in him and themselves. He made a conglomerate where no one had a past from the same industry but yet were unanimous on the same platform. But as its said that when everything falls your way..you are in the wrong lane, and as every success has the failure standing at the door waiting for that one moment where you leave the doors open, Jordan Belfort was no exception. He falls, and falls hard.. so much so that he has to serve 36 months in prison..and with that, everything changes. Though I believe that this dwindle of Jordan Belfort could have been at least postponed (if not stopped), had he not been a doctrinaire which unfortunately he was that eventually led him to his own fall.
The story covers almost all the aspects of the book (as I read it before going for the movie), and is well driven by Terence Winters (screenplay) as the length could have been a drawback but well, it just comes at your face the very minute and finds a place in your bones as the time passes by. Martin Scorsese provides humongous efforts to keep the plot alive and is outstandingly successful in doing so, along with which, you can always see his trademarks in the movie like the lead facing internal and personal problems (mostly marital concerns).
I've always been a Scorsese fan, this was indeed not Scorsese cinema, nor was Shutter Island but well..as long as you get the dose and you like it..that's what really matters at the end of the day. And I totally enjoyed it as I'm myself a sales person and all my life, I've believed that sales is all about conversation and convincing, but this flick taught me an echt definition of sales. All hails to the trio. And I hope it bags at least 3 Oscars out of its 5 nominations this year.
I'd rate this astonishing comic sensation of the year as 9/10.