Desperately poke yourself with your horns

Branson 2021-10-20 17:39:54

There is no way back for boxing movies to be made like this. A boxer's victory on the field will not convey any excitement to the audience. It does the opposite, making you feel that every victory on the court is a failure in life. The boxer played by De Niro is only violent. He will only be violent. Compared with his softer brother, Jack the Bull is a beast. The reason for his sorrow is that victory in the game cannot bring him a sense of security. The Bulls know that everything on the field is just on the field. The fist thrown out can knock down the opponent. But when it hits his wife's face, he is the one who knocks down. Scorsese made the Bulls a sharp self-contradictory body. He weakened boxing and focused on portraying the hopeless life of boxers. It seems that success is just the other side of failure for boxers. When he became the stand-up comedian he once spurned, the boxer's soul was enclosed in the self-motivation of the mirror when preparing for the backstage. He punched the air in the background, and after the fist went out, he still hit himself. This is really desperate.

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  • Katlyn 2022-03-23 09:01:16

    9/10. Revisiting, the first act alludes to the source of anger. Jack warms up alone on the court, waving his fists and moving his pace. The thick rope in the foreground is extremely powerful and symbolizes the Mafia behind the scenes. This unfair order implies Jack's dictatorship. Violent personality, after being unfairly judged, chairs thrown under the boxing ring, popcorn flying all over the sky, exclamation, stampede, the American national anthem hurriedly sounded, and when the throne of boxing was lost, the fog surrounding Robinson's image became terrifying. The clip vividly accesses the slow motion of Jack being hit on the head and dripping with blood and sweat. Contradictions and chaos affect Jack’s life. When his wife says hello to other men, he will be questioned. Scorsese uses the inequality of composition. Relationships, mirrors that expand the space, broken TV props, and the characters' restless emotions, to interpret the family quarrel scene where Jack asks his brother to slap him in the face, suspects his wife's infidelity, and misunderstands his brother, showing the family’s helplessness and Jack’s self-destruction and loss of faith. Jack asked himself in pain, and slammed desperately against the wall in prison. The once strong boxing champion was forced to live in the club to flatter him. The bull who did not want to bow his head finally learned to ask for forgiveness.

  • Dayana 2022-03-24 09:01:16

    Jack LaMotta, an invincible boxer, is like an "angry bull", frantically suspicious of his relatives and friends. Especially his beloved wife, under his nervous persecution, lost the "happiness that can be obtained by falling in love with him". Fortunately, he still has a heart of regret!

Raging Bull quotes

  • Jake La Motta: I got these small hands. I got a little girl's hands.

  • Jake La Motta: Did you fuck my wife?

    Joey LaMotta: What?

    Jake La Motta: Did you fuck my wife?

    Joey LaMotta: [pauses] How could you ask me a question like that? How could you ask me? I'm your brother. You asked me that? Where do you get you're balls big enough to ask me that?

    Jake La Motta: Just tell me.

    Joey LaMotta: I'm not answering you. I'm not gonna answer that. It's stupid.

    Jake La Motta: You're very smart, Joey. You're givin' me all these answers, but you ain't givin' me the right answer. I'm gonna ask you again: did you or did you not?

    Joey LaMotta: I'm not gonna answer. It's a sick question and you're a sick fuck and I'm not that sick that I'm gonna answer it. I'm not telling you anything. I'm gonna leave. If Lenore calls, tell her I went home. I'm not stayin' in this nuthouse with you. You're a sick bastard, I feel sorry for you, I really do. You know what you should do? Try a little more fuckin' and a little less eatin'. And you won't have troubles upstairs in your bedroom and you won't pick it out on me and everybody else. You understand, you fuckin' wacko? You're crackin' up! Fuckin' screw ball, you!