Scorsese’s rendering of the tale is a beautiful symphony of violence, anger, and at last, an opening of the metaphorical eyes. In fact, Scorsese isn’t a sports fan at all, even commenting, “I don’t like boxing.” Raging Bull is a film that’s about more than boxing it transcends the label of just another “biographical sports drama.” At its core, it’s about a man who is involved in a nasty boxing match with life and who is constantly at war with the people around him. Interestingly, Scorsese wasn’t especially interested in making this movie when he was approached about turning Jake LaMotta’s book Raging Bull: My Story into a movie. His struggle to turn into a human being, to “see,” lasts for a long time, until after LaMotta has been divorced twice, after he has become estranged from his family, and after a stint in jail.
He beats a boxing opponent’s face in because his wife referred to the man as having a “pretty face,” he punches his wife in the face during an argument, and he beats his brother so badly that their relationship is nearly irrevocably destroyed.
And yet somehow, LaMotta’s animalistic nature gets the better of him every time. “I’m not an animal,” LaMotta tells himself, and threatens to kill the dog of a neighbor who rudely calls him and his wife by that name. Both in and out of the ring, LaMotta was a man filled with a self-destructive anger and aggression that rotted away at his life from the inside out. Raging Bull is based on the real-life former boxing champion Jake LaMotta, a man for whom the quote from John IX is sadly true. Martin Scorsese is a master of beautiful subtlety, and Raging Bull is the one of the greatest examples of the way Scorsese uses characters and dialogue to tell a story. ‘All I know is this: Once I was blind and now I can see.’” ‘Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,’ the man replied. “So, for the second time, summoned the man who had been blind and said:
At the end of Raging Bull, the following quote appears on screen:
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