Wolf of Wall Street

         I was very excited about Martin Scorcese's latest film. Scorcese clearly has a good hand when it comes to dramatizing lives of criminals and other characters living on the edge of society  (need I give examples?). His movies show these characters' complex emotional layers, and he successfully shows the motivations behind what many times are deplorable people's actions without it feeling apologetic.
         This doesn't happen so much in "Wolf of Wall Street". Yes, performances are memorable - I, for one, am a big fan of Leo DiCaprio's work - and we are all thankful to be introduced to the world's most beautiful woman (sorry, Gisele!). But, at the same times, the characters portrayed are so over the top and one-dimensional that I'm not sure that these roles were very challenging to begin with.
          I couldn't help but leave the theatre thinking "why this story?". Yes, greed is a bad thing and destroys families. We all know that. People do a lot of cocaine in Wall Street and it's a dog eat dog world out there. We all know that. Society links a lot of money to success, when most of the time the people with a lot of money have broken lives and are unhappy. We all know that. By no means is it a bad movie. There are good scenes, sequences and actually a lot of humor, but it was impossible, knowing what the duo Marty+Leo are capable of doing, not to leave wanting more.