The "Wolf of Wall Street" is being condemned for its brutal force of storytelling.
I saw this movie with my brothers a few days ago. I didn't know it was a true story until the end of the movie. My baby brother said the main character did time and was fined $110 million, but there was a backlash about the success of his book and movie. The court ordered him to pay 50% of his earnings back to those he deceived. He chose to return 100% of it. That being said the story was brilliantly told. It was the truth, and the critics yelling about the depiction of the times and industry the main character made his wealth come across as sissies, weak links in the business of telling the truth.
I remember the debauchery. I lived during those times, and like others have suffered from the free license this industry has used and misused. If Americans want, or need to continue the practice of sugar coating (not seeing) the truth how will we mature? The profane practices within the financial industry are the center piece of our country's financial woes, and if a look into what we've allowed by the dreams we hold of what the American Dream is we will repeat the perilous times our values continue to sink us into.
If anything is to change in our storytelling, and the stories we share with the world-at-large we need to dream different dreams. Ubuntu. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.6.14
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