Through his firm Statton-Oakmont, Belfort encourages a culture of rancid behavior where employees burn off steam by screwing cheap hookers in the conference room and tossing dwarves like lawn darts. In 1987, Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio) begins his ascent from earnest stockbroker to a ravenous, craven, drug-addled white-collar criminal taking in almost one million dollars a week. But by the time the film is finished spinning through an excessive tale of excess, it’s too dizzy to make a cogent and worthwhile point. It’s purposely bloated, lumbering, hyperactive, distracted, and combines these usually negative qualities into comic gold with the help of Leonardo DiCaprio’s painfully funny performance. Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, takes the attitude of these films, pushes them into overdrive, crashes through a wall, gets out of the car, and then runs naked and screaming through the streets. Spring Breakers, The Bling Ring, and American Hustle have shown us varying degrees of grotesque but amusing indulgence in reckless ambition and callous disregard for the consequences.
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2013 has seen a collection of films that feel like a response to the economic fallout from 2008, and the greed, excess, and delusions that fueled the catastrophic downfall.