Something is very, very off about this

Rating: 5/10 (10 August 2019)

It's in many ways a very good piece of film and art. But in context of real life the movie really misses its mark. It's clearly supposed to tell the ultimate cocaine repleted American tale that turns into a nightmare. It does a good job on the first part. It never shows us the nightmare.
A large portion of the audience will come out of this movie with a new hero and role model. I'm talking about the villain Jordan Belfort. The guy who swindled thousands of people and came off easy because he ratted on his friends.
But the tone of the first portion of the story is far too positive. So positive that it becomes offensive. And the second part, well there's barely any negativity. The tone barely drops. It's all just a humoristic capitalist adventure with a bunch of happy bros living the dream with their drugs and hookers. And while Scorsese tries to salvage it all by putting on a nice vague little bowtie of critique towards capitalism at the end, it's too little and too late. The damage is done. This film has already inspired an entire new generation of misogynistic capitalist pigs.