Jake Lamotta's Honor In Raging Bull
Jake LaMotta is a fighter. A middleweight boxer and a jealous lover – he’s always fighting for something. Jake has an overinflated ego, and a disturbing sense of honour. Raging Bull is about the only Scorsese film that doesn’t romanticise the chauvinistic gangsters of 1950’s New York; Jake LaMotta isn’t a role model, and watching him doesn’t fill you with a sense of admiration or envy – unlike gallant Henry Hill, from Goodfellas.
Raging Bull slowly blurs the line between the ring and Jake’s home life: first taking his own anger and jealously into the ring, then his vicious appetite for violence into his home. Scorsese often parallels the action within the ring to Jake’s violent love life, primarily through the use of sound and silence.
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Raging Bull slowly blurs the line between the ring and Jake’s home life: first taking his own anger and jealously into the ring, then his vicious appetite for violence into his home. Scorsese often parallels the action within the ring to Jake’s violent love life, primarily through the use of sound and silence.
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