Give it a Chance, friends

Rating: 9/10 (17 March 2014)

Can the film be described as graphic, explicit, even repetitive at times? Maybe, but despite the fact that it is said to be too long at two hours and fifty-nine minutes, there is a higher message here. An American message. Most people from out of the states will not catch it. This is a relevant topic. The Oliver Stone Wall Street message of, "Beware of greed' yada yada yada. Is not good enough. This movie had to be made of visual effect and disturbance. In America, people either hate Wall Street brokers or are one of them. These are not people to be idolized, no, that is obvious from the film. But what Scorsese is really depicting is how Jordan Belfort is the epitome of the American Dream. This is not a man who is a pure-bred, a wasp, this is a man that grew up in Queens and came from nothing. Rags to riches is the American way and that fact can't be denied. Traditionalism and aristocratic high society is NOT the American way. This film is designed to humble American Citizens and show them what they are really made of. Some Americans hate the film because they do not wish to see the truth. But this is the truth, this is America, we are not higher than the nude women, drugs, and alcohol; these things make up the country. Again, it could be described as repetitive to some, but it is a message, it is a graphic brutal image that is relevant to Americans today.