RAGING BULL

De Niro’s Best; Scorsese’s best; the best film of the ’80’s; the best film ever made!

The film gets into the mind of Jake Lamotta. Everything De Niro does in this film is incredible. Never in the history of film has any actor given a more honest, and truthful performance. De Niro morphs into Lamotta, and not just by gaining weight, but learning how to breathe and think like Jake Lamatto. His journey is heartbreaking, and yet oddly inspiring. Scorsese doesn’t use voice over to get you into Jake’s head, he know’s De Niro can do it for him. The brutality of the boxing scenes carries a mythic, visceral sense of reality. This movie isn’t for the light weights, it’s heavy material, it asks you to care for a horrible human being, and by some miracle, you do! Raging Bull is not just my favorite movie of all time, I would indeed call it the best film ever made!
By: Stephen Wagner