The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET  (2013)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Martin Scorsese
    Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie,
    Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner,
    Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, Joanna Lumley, 
    Christine Ebersole, Shea Whigham, Katarina Cas
Capitalism goes on a cocaine binge in Martin Scorsese's three-hour buzzfest starring Leo as Jordan Belfort, a real-life stock trader who made and spent an obscene fortune in the '80s and '90s by peddling dreams to fools and pocketing the profits. It's a manic, hellish, jacked-up vision: the American Dream at its most crass and extravagant. Emotionally it's a dead zone, but that kind of fits. Its phone-bank hustlers are rats on a treadmill, and if they've shed their humanity to be where they are, they don't seem to miss it much. They're hooked on the treadmill, and the bigger and faster and higher it goes, the more wired they get.  They're mainlining greed, and the booze and dope and sex (and boats and cars and servants and clothes) are side effects. They love being rats.