Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill
Director: Martin Scorsese
'Memoir films' are a genre that Martin Scorsese has tackled before, most notably in Goodfellas, the film to which The Wolf Of Wall Street is endlessly compared. Both films feature protagonist con men telling their life story (which story is purportedly true), but considering they are con men, it's very easy to believe that there are many fictions intervowen into this narrative. When a self-promoter tells any story, it's with the aim of promoting himself - this is his life story, so imagine how much self-promotion there is in here! The film plays around with this idea of the narrator's memory versus actual events a few times.
The Wolf Of Wall Street manages to fully examine what happens when you view everything around you as vehicles to satisfy your desires. I'm not sure where the ninnies got the idea that this film glorifies wealth and drug use.
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