SYNOPSIS
Made at the end of the 70s, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull represents one of the last of an era of great films. It is a big budget Hollywood film that is nevertheless personal, auteur-driven, and free from formula. The depiction of the violent and insecure prizefighter Jake LaMotta’s rise, fall and modest redemption is an uncompromising, troubling and ultimately enduring work. Going through personal turmoil at the time, Scorsese wasn’t very interested in the surface of LaMotta’s story, and he stripped it of the trappings of sports films and biopics until what remained was a darker and more personal drama about masculine identity, sexual insecurity and self-destruction.
