Reconcile with yourself

Russ 2021-10-20 17:23:24

I think I will always remember this film, as I remember "The Graduate". This is not a happy movie, the protagonist "Mad Cow" La Mota is a hostile guy. In the ring he is the nightmare of all boxers; in the ring he is like a simple kid talking to you happily, but he may knock you to the ground in a blink of an eye. His stubborn resistance to the authority of the gang boss, his all kinds of unreasonable suspicions about his wife, his preferences for beauty and food, all his misfortunes, and the departure of his relatives and friends. Even the audience would not have the slightest pity for him.
This reminds me of Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate", the rigid college student. They all have obvious shortcomings, and they are destined to be defeated by this shortcoming, and they themselves are aware of this. But they did not have the courage to change and restrain themselves. Only when everything was lost did they gain new strength and reached a reconciliation with their relatives and friends (the lover of the graduate, the younger brother of Mad Cow) and themselves (the last scene, La Mota speaking in the mirror).
When we are angry, when we betray others, they become our mirror. What is reflected is our same expression of fear and helplessness. Are we able to reconcile with ourselves?

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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: [crying] What'd I do? What'd I do? What'd I do?

  • Jake La Motta: They got some balls. Some balls. I take the dive. What more do they want? Huh? They want me to go down too? I ain't goin' down. Not for nobody.