Before the economic collapse, America was on top. There were jobs aplenty and people flocked from all over the world to the States in hopes of a better life for themselves and for their children. Once you were in the States, you didn't move away. You stayed, got a job, made money, and lived happily ever after because money was and still is the key to a healthy, vibrant life. But what happens when you make a lot of money? Let me repeat that: a lot of money. The Wolf of Wall Street displayed debauchery and hedonistic pursuits in all of its glory, but was it really intended to glorify the excesses that money can buy or was it condemning it by numbing our senses to it, revealing its hollowness? One may even argue that it was both: that the movie celebrates both the joys of money while condemning the idolization of it. Join me as I look at 5 things the Wolf of Wall Street celebrates and condemns in the land of the free, then...
I'm a thinker/fantasizer who writes down his thoughts and fantasies hoping it makes sense to everyone else. Also I'm an aspiring screenwriter, but if I can work in film at all, I'd be happy. One day you may hear the name Ryan Kim and associate it with "Academy Award winning writer" or with "where's that guy with my coffee." If the latter comes true, please let it be Paul Thomas Anderson's coffee I'm getting.
