Décadence

I’ve been splayed in front of the pay-per-view watching films about decadence, and the first thing I noticed was that European and American filmmakers handle these things in completely different ways.
First up was The Wolf of Wall Street,Martin Scorsese’s biopic of financial sleazeball (“and motivational speaker”) Jordan Belfort. Belfort lost his job on Wall Street and went to work in a boiler room cold-calling working people in order to sell them penny stocks in pump-and-dump schemes. It was...