Great Review of "The Wolf of Wall Street"
http://www.zhoag.com/2014/01/13/like-sheep-amidst-the-wolves-of-wall-street/#comment-2495 Okay, so if you need some kind of disclaimer about the sex, swearing, and drug use that pervades the DiCaprio/Scorsese masterpiece The Wolf of Wall Street, please consult Focus on the Family’s Plugged In Movie Review (if you dare). Suffice it to say, there are not graphic or profane scenes in this film – the film itself is a graphic and profane scene. It is, in this sense, an experience of the excessive, a revelation of the gratuitous. And how could it not be? If we have any illusions about what happens, or has happened, behind the facade of the financial district or any other elite cultural class, it is the express purpose of this film to repeatedly slap us in the face until we wake up. That said, the story of Jordan Belfort, a young, ambitious broker who makes his tens of millions swindling the rich with penny stocks and creating tangled webs of i...