Leonardo DiCaprio was perfect in this over-the-top portrayal

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street was an awesome three hours long as it careened from drug fueled appalling sexual depravity (how it avoided a XXX rating I do not know), to pathetically hilarious (spastic on Quaalude), to the tragedy of marital infidelity and divorce, to an infuriating reaffirmation of everything we have always suspected about the schemes, and scams of greed-head capitalism.
Leonardo DiCaprio was perfect as the loathsome self-absorbed materialist guru of greed who preached the gospel of me-ness with all of the emotional enthusiasms and manipulations of a televangelist on speed and steroids to his loyal cult following of stock selling graspers and grafters.
In spite of the absurdity of a life style that is at odds with most of my values there is nothing in this over-the-top portrayal of life of the rich and infamous that was unbelievably gratuitous. I do believe that the financial corruption portrayed is systemic.
This is an important message film about the sinister underbelly of what it means to be reckoned as a successful person in America. This is a shock doctrine for what ails our way of life.