The Aftertaste Has Clout

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2014)

Some films leave an aftertaste. The aftertaste from The Wolf of Wall Street (besides how much fun the crew must have had trying to keep a straight face during some of Leonardo's antics...) is the frank exposure of the pure sham behind the entire stock market scene. How truly shallow is the American dream? How freely will business "friends" betray each others' well being and personal trust? How empty is the greedy search for material wealth regardless of the social or environmental costs? Martin Scorsese scores 100% for the riveting portrayal of how a sheep of a man, an uninitiated adolescent, was hiding in a wolf's clothing, and how the model is envied by shallow men throughout the world, fooling them perhaps all the way to their graves. Thank you Martin. Thank you Leonardo. For the wake up call. Makes me want to invent an entirely new and different culture to live in...