14 DAY TRIAL // Though it is one of the front runners for this year's Academy Awards, “The Wold of Wall Street,” Martin Scorsese's latest film, is drawing a lot of criticism from people. The main issue with the film that portrays the debauched life of a shady Wall Street stockbroker is that there is an outstanding use of profanity, as well as lots of drugs and women of ill repute, viewed as gratuitous by many.
The star of the film Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't agree with these critics, some of them Members of the Academy.
He praises Scorsese for not giving the film a “didactic ending” and turning it into an educational tale, where the bad guy gets it in the end, as a punishment for his bad deeds.
“Marty's approach to this was really not to make this film have a didactic ending, not to teach a lesson here. It was a reflection of Jordan's life. And Marty's approach, in doing films like Goodfellas or any of these portrayals, is to portray them as honestly as he possibly can, to be unapologetic about their actions,” DiCaprio explains, as cited by Celebuzz.
Then he adds, “And then we can somehow, as an audience, insert ourselves into their mindset. And ultimately that's why his films are so powerful. They're about the darker nature of who we are. And we do learn something from these people.”
Jonah Hill, who plays Donnie Azoff in the film, is also sticking up for the director: “I think the movie is not glorifying this behavior, it is showing that it leads to bad places whether their judicial punishment doesn't reflect that is one thing. Where your life ends up, who you are as a person, is another.”
The movie “Wolf of Wall Street” is still playing in theaters, after being released on Christmas. It's still doing fairly well, in spite of the controversy surrounding it that it's too graphic. It offers a very disturbing and very real image of the life of the current financial world, that many may not like.