The real Jordan Belfort, upon whom “The Wolf of Wall Street” is based, is now on TikTok with the handle, having amassed nearly 1 million followers - even as he still owed nearly 100 times that figure for fraud as of 2018. It also managed to pin down the oft-fleeting status of relevance in today’s fast-moving pop culture scene. It is disgusting, entrancing and well worth watching. Viewers get the privilege of watching three hours of Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey and Jonah Hill directed by Martin Scorsese. If you have not yet watched this film, please find the time to do so - it is a cultural watershed, a striking critique of capitalism through the explicit depiction of immoral excess. You don’t have to be a finance bro to like “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Rorye Jones PO ’23 argues that you don’t have to be a finance bro to like “The Wolf of Wall Street.” (Courtesy: James Devaney/WireImage)
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