" The Wolf of Wall Street ' splendor and misery brokers

" The Wolf of Wall Street ' splendor and misery brokers

Hear ye, hear ye ! The great Scorsese is back! This is "the" good news of the end of this year: the director as remarkable as film Mean Streets , Goodfellas and Casino has not finished with his uncompromising exploration of the American dream . The Wolf of Wall Street, his new album is in its way a sort of quintessence of obsessions " scorsesiennes ." It contains most of his favorite themes : money , sex and drugs, but also more hidden than usual , suffering , sin and death.




The film tells the story - true - the meteoric rise of Jordan Belfort , a small broker at LF Rothschild in 1987, star of Wall Street and all its excesses in late 1993 . Meanwhile, in 1989, he has created Stratton Oakmont, a brokerage firm that earned him through methods that the most basic moral condemns , raise in a very short time a considerable fortune.

From the outset , that the viewer immersed in the world of cinematic codes Scorsese . A voiceover narration - which method worked wonders in films such as Goodfellas , The Age of Innocence and Casino.

After Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro , this time it is Leonardo DiCaprio who acts as narrator. So probably for Scorsese to get involved in this amazing reflection on the excesses of the financial world , facing the camera , that is , sometimes, we will address that D. ..