Raging Bull

Do you think you've seen everything. Think again. Robert De Niro as Jack La Motta is simply brutal. Martin Scorcese got the oscar he deserved two years ago with the movie "The Departed" but he really deserved it for a long time now. Raging Bull is the exact example of that. It's the cinematic adaptation of Jake La Motta's autobiography and who's better to tell this italian self-destructive story.

The plot starts in the begining of the 1940s with Jake La Motta, one of the top middleweight boxers in the world. He's called as the "Raging Bull" for is inhuman ability to take a beating and for his random and unpredictable attacks. His agression is so strong that he can't control it inside or outside of the ring. His brutality grows with time and gets to his family. One day he meets a 15 year old girl which is hanging out with the gangsters of Hell's Kitchen. He divorces his wife and marries her. But his agression continue to grow, with jealous now for the new wife, and soon is will be terroryzing everybody arround him.

Raging Bull was the supremecy for Robert De Niro carreer who also made extraordinary movies like "The Godfather - Part 2", "The Deer Hunter", "Once Upon the Time In America", "Goodfellas", "Casino".... What makes this movie different from the other characters he performed, it's pure and simply credibility and the convincing physical presence of his character. The fascinating and terrifying convincing moments which the audience is presented are worthy of an oscar, which De Niro received by the way.

Technicly the movie is perfect, from the sound and editing, De Niro performance and Michael Chapman black-and-white photography. Scorcese is a great director as he often stands still the camera and focuses on La Motta's violent outbursts. The fight sequences are extremly realistics, from a camera close range, spraying blood ans sweat.

An heavy movie, a hard movie, a masterpiece from the past century. Unforgettable, extraordinary, agressive, a Scorcese/De Niro movie which i love very much. a masterpiece from the 7th Art. Watch it, it's mandatory.

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