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Martin Scorsese has excavated the terrain of the American crime drama from multiple angles – but with The Wolf Of Wall Street he goes straight to the edge with a tale from the outrageous and darkly comic realm of our most contemporary variety of criminal extortion: high finance. The result is an epic trip into intoxication — intoxication by greed, adrenaline, sex, drugs and the constant churning of all too easy money.
“This is a story about the profane as opposed to the sacred, the obscene as opposed to the decent. Yet it’s not an expose. I mean the obscenity, the profanity, it’s all right there. It’s in plain sight. It’s part of the very fabric of the culture. Yet ultimately I think it comes out that this is a lifestyle – the ‘lifestyles of the rich and famous’ as the TV show had...
Martin Scorsese has excavated the terrain of the American crime drama from multiple angles – but with The Wolf Of Wall Street he goes straight to the edge with a tale from the outrageous and darkly comic realm of our most contemporary variety of criminal extortion: high finance. The result is an epic trip into intoxication — intoxication by greed, adrenaline, sex, drugs and the constant churning of all too easy money.
“This is a story about the profane as opposed to the sacred, the obscene as opposed to the decent. Yet it’s not an expose. I mean the obscenity, the profanity, it’s all right there. It’s in plain sight. It’s part of the very fabric of the culture. Yet ultimately I think it comes out that this is a lifestyle – the ‘lifestyles of the rich and famous’ as the TV show had...
- 1/6/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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