Angry bull

Alysson 2022-03-16 09:01:02

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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  • Clarabelle 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Disappointed. The role of Jack LaMotta as a boxer is essentially the same as the superman in "New York, New York". Even the so-called "anger" is cheap and shameless. There is nothing particularly tragic or worthy of sympathy. Robert De Niro's acting skills have not been fully utilized. Maybe I was expecting too much? Personally, I feel that it's hard to get under the prestige. Samsung and a half // 20160813 The big screen of China Film Archive. Still don't like it

  • 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.

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.