The Wolf of Wall Street
---------------------a ridiculous but introspective movie Beginning with the degenerate life of Jordan R. Belfort, the movie shows the fighting time of Jordan, and ultimately leaves us a questionable ending. Through its superficial manifestation mode, it still leaves us something worthy of being thought over again and again.
At first glance, I just consider it as an R level movie which shows the degenerate life of bourgeois class like repeated drinking, drugs, whores and others.Anyway, all these things make me feel uncomfortable initially.
After having appreciated the first 30 minutes of the firm, we can briefly have a further understanding of how Jordan attains his current life and becomes rich. We can firstly know that he did fight for his future in the past. Then here comes the core of the movie-----his criminal life and ending.
Full closure, I feel a little bit uncomfortable with the exaggerate expression. Throughout the firm, “fucking” or “fuck” appear more than 500 times, and the scene of drug taking as well as whoring also appear repeatedly. But when I am accustomed to them, I just find that it is actually a kind of manifestation mode of showing their degenerate life, but the repeated scene makes the movie dilatory more or less.
Many roles in this movie have their significant influence on Jordan. Mark Hanna, taught the significance of sex and drug to Jordan when he firstly entered the Wall Street. Actually Jordan even considers him as his tutor. Teresa, Jordan’s first wife, supported him firmly when his company went broke, but in the middle of the movie she divorced with Jordan due to Jordan’s affair. And Jordan’s best friend Donnie Azoff, followed and worked for Jordan just after he met with himat the first time. No matter what Jordan wants to do, he is always standing on his side. But to some extent, it is also him who causes the final bad ending.
After finishing watching this movie, I find it difficult to judge whether Jordan is a “good guy” or a “bad guy”. On the one hand, obviously he is a criminal as he forms lots of cheatings and money laundering. But on the other hand he does better than the wealth in general. He will share his wealth with his friends, and always concerns about his stuff. When he was monitored by government,he warned his friend that do not speak too much, though all of them are not able to escape anyway. He is a clever guy, and as for a further comment, he is talented in business, but all talents can beuseless when he takes the wrong way.
The question of “Can you sell me this pen now?” appears two times in this movie. The answer of this question really impresses me in the first time. When I amconsidering how to introduce this pen to customers, his friend just takes away his pen and asks “Can you please sign your name for me, sir?” A ver y impressive and also useful way. This question appears again in the ending of the movie, after Jordan is released from prison. But this time, all of the answers are pertaining how to introduce the size, type or other physical conditions of this pen. They are normal, and
are lacking of innovation. Thesimple but meaningful ending really makes everyone begin to think deeply of our recent society. It is a simple contrast between two kinds of people. T he result is, Jordan’s uneducated friend does better than those who considers themselves as elitists. Does it mean the recent education weaken and limit people’s imagination and innovation? When we are chasing the normal and ordinary life, innovation does disappear from our life.So maybe next time when we are confronted with problems, we should remind ourselves of this question. When all the people are walking on the same, normal road, maybe we should take another different and innovate road to reach our destination.
国贸创新班
祁嘉杰
20151603549。