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www.bbc.co.uk - : Time and again film critics are cornered at bus stops and in pubs by jabbering movie nuts who demand to know what the best ever film is. Which is it? Why is it? Is it a desert island must? Those of us who don't resort to violence generally admit that at least one of the greatest of all time is Martin Scorsese's ''Raging Bull'', declared by American critics to be the greatest movie of the 80s and it is, arguably, the director's most triumphant accomplishment. more...
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www.spiritualityandpractice.com - : He is as tough as nails in 1941, a real comer on the boxing scene. But no one wants to fight him. Jake La Motta. The Bronx Bull. His brother Joey serves as his manager, bearing his insults, moods, and rages. The Mob wants a piece of the action but La Motta insists on being his own man. He is consumed by the idea of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. The Bull snorts. The Mob perseveres. La Motta throws a fight in order to get a shot at the championship. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Martin Scorsese's ''Raging Bull'' is a movie about brute force, anger, and grief. It is also, like several of Scorsese's other movies, about a man's inability to understand a woman except in terms of the only two roles he knows how to assign her: virgin or whore. There is no room inside the mind of the prizefighter in this movie for the notion that a woman might be a friend, a lover, or a partner. She is only, to begin with, an inaccessible sexual fantasy. And then, after he has possessed her, she becomes tarnished by sex. Insecure in his own manhood, the man becomes obsessed by jealousy -- and releases his jealousy in violence. more...
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