![]() There are a few instances of relationship fallout, but nothing the viewer doesn’t see coming or that Belfort doesn’t move on from. There are legal consequences, but the morality behind them is muted. It’s an account unencumbered by the more traditional balancing elements found in tales of hubris and addiction. Titled after the first of two autobiographies, The Wolf of Wall Street presents Belfort’s account of his own rise and fall(-ish). ![]() Given the two hours and fifty-nine minutes that follow, perhaps that’s the point. It’s a crude visual that even the sleek voiceover narrative can’t quite erase. Martin Scorsese’s new film opens with a scene in which protagonist/fraudster Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) is inserting cocaine into the-well, let’s just say, employing an alternative though efficient method of introducing drugs to the blood stream-of a hooker.
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