Jake's goal when he was young was very clear: to become a world champion. He believes in power and regrets that he will never be able to beat the heavyweight players. The boxing ring seemed to him a fanatical and sacred venue. He is suspicious and overeating, but he is always very pious about boxing, as he said to his ex-wife, "That championship belt on me, that's when I fool around.". However, after he experienced cheating in the game, becoming a world champion, and being replaced by a new world champion, he found that the boxing world is just a system that revolves around profit, and there is no honor at all. The audience just get a sense of entertainment in the bloody match scene, the fighting photos, and the gambling. The sacredness of the match does not exist at all. Everything is just an arranged performance to please the audience. Later, when he had no money, Jake smashed the championship belt with a hammer just to take out the few gems inlaid on it, and the sacred sense of boxing was completely deconstructed. So Jake said at the end (at the beginning of the film): "I would rather you cheered because you heard me play Shakespeare." So, give me a stage where this bull here can rage. And though I can fight, I'd much rather recite. "I only know: I was once blind, and now I see the light again; the contradiction of restlessness and fearlessness, indifference and fanaticism, he will always be just an angry bull if his fate rises or turns sharply." — -"Raging Bull"
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