Film Review and Analysis of Raging Bull (1980)
Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull is often described as a boxing film, but the label does not fully explain what makes it so unsettling and memorable. Boxing provides the setting, yet the film is primarily a study of anger, jealousy, masculinity, loneliness, and self-destruction. Its central character, Jake LaMotta, knows how to absorb punishment in the ring, but he cannot manage the emotions that damage his marriage, his relationship with his

