Response Paper #1

Response Paper #1

            A movie that I have watched recently to create a review for would be “The Wolf of Wall Street” directed by Martin Scorsese.  I chose to watch this movie because it was an Oscar nominated picture for Best Picture winning movie and it looked like it would be interesting to watch with my friends. I think the message of this movie is that all people want to become filthy rich not to become a middle class American and send their kids to college.  The movie is basically about a man named Jordan Belfort who started off on Wall Street trying to become a stock broker but when he finally did the market crashed and he had no job.  He then created his own firm where he sold penny stocks to people for way more than most other people could and got 50% commission.  Jordan Belfort then became super rich and the FBI began looking into what he was doing and if it was legal.  It turned out he was doing a process where they would buy certain stock and sell it to people for big money and then when the stock dropped the investors would lose their money.  This movie is connected to the current stock market and how people invest their money with these brokers, who they trust, to choose good stocks when in fact they might be investing them into bad stocks and losing you money and getting them rich.  I rarely ever watch movies similar to the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street”.  I found the movie to be interesting at first but after the first hour of the movie it began to repeat itself for the next two hours and I lost interest.  I disliked how nothing new happened the entire length of the movie and that the ending was nothing special either.