More disturbing than Martin Scorses’ debauchery-filled depiction of
Jordan Belfort is the Business Insider
Steven Perlberg’s review on “The Wolf of Wall Street”.
While the movie has a finale with a moral theme attached to
it, somehow it goes unnoticed to the general public, whose main take-away is the
popular attack on crooked bankers and sales people. Jordan’s struggle with
drugs along with his apparent internal conflicts and his incapability to feel
self-worth are nothing but sad, however according to our friend Steven, the movie
did not do enough to make Jordan look like a villain. Well Steven, I think your
morals need a check – if this movie depicted anything, it is Jordan’s
struggles, and his insatiable appetite for doing wrong, which in any decent
man’s rapport falls heavily under the villain title.
It seems there is a wild fire being hurled on banks and
bankers around the world, and although some of our friends the scientists do much worse
along with some of our best friends the politicians in terms of wars, nuclear bombs and
destroying lives – let us allow Hollywood and the media, to direct attention
towards the bankers that keep our economy running, and allow us in the west to
stand richer as a whole. Let us move our trust to our politicians, as they now
seem worthier of our money than investment bankers. And now without sarcasm, I
say, what a shame.
I would like to continue to believe that many investment
bankers on Wall Street have a conscience. Without a conscience, and a
determination to do what is right, the industry will eventually collapse into
abysmal nothingness taking with it all that has been built by moral victims. The "Wolf of Wall Street" is about a man who did not make it on Wall Street – he
is not, in any way, a depiction of your average broker, investor, banker, sales
person – and it’s a shame that many people miss this essential premise.
I am appalled that Steven has the permission to write his
review without accurately stating as to who the audience was exactly, and to
gleefully add insult to injury by making it seem as though we (bankers) would
all approve of this behavior.
