Movie Review: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Do you want to get rich? Well, if you lived in this movie, your answer would have most certainly been YES! So what then? The Wolf of Wall Street is a movie based on the book written by Jordan Belfort himself about the rise and fall of his career as a stock broker on Wall Street. It is a real story, fellows. It is almost a practical handbook on the topic ‘How to Get Rich and How to Do It Now’ and takes you step-by-step through the surprisingly quick process of becoming a millionaire (or a billionaire if you happen to be talented or somewhat lucky). That is if you lived in the 80s, of course. But if you happen to be as misfortunate as to live now, it at least gives you an exclusive insight on the lives of the extremely rich facing the problem of what they should do with their money. You could almost feel sympathy for those poor fellows who have so much cash they don’t know where to put it.

This movie is incredible in the sense that you can actually believe that the story is just a written fiction created to impress you watching it in front of the screen. What is unbelievable is that it is, nevertheless, a true story. And it is a fantastically good story! You have a dream, you have an idea, you have a genius to live up to the idea, you have a fraud, you have romance, you have drugs, and, not to forget, you have FBI interference that will make you sit on the edge of your seat asking yourself what would come next. And all this happens after for years you’ve been told these things happened only in the movies.

There are so many reasons to watch The Wolf of Wall Street and the amazing cast doesn’t even make the top ten. I’ll give you a bit of an off-beat reason, though. You should watch this movie because it is a living example that one can actually live a Hollywood-movie life – and if that’s not inspirational, I don’t know what is.