Raging Bull: The Return of a Boxing Fighter

I have watched three boxing movies. Rocky, Million Dollar Baby, and Raging Bull. All three movies are the best and address the issues that every boxing fighter had to face in life.In the scene where he fought with Sugar Ray, Jake let himself be brutally beaten up because he wanted to pay for what he did which meant the sins he ever committed. It was the road to the redemption where all the bad things Jake had caused must be paid.

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If in Million Dollar Baby, Maggie had to try so hard and suffered the pain to become a boxing fighter but tragics came to stop her professional career, or in Rocky, Rocky Balboa fought to become a professional boxing fighter, Jake in Raging Bull had to fight with the rage inside him which had hurt everyone around him a lot and he was so arrogant in fight with his competitors. Jake was like an anti protagonist to me because he went against every characteristic that a boxing fighter should have and lacked respect for everyone else. He was just a big guy with fists.

Even though Jake let Sugar Ray beated him up, it did not mean Jake conceded. Jake just needed to do the redemption for all of his sins. That was it. In all of his life, Jake always wanted to be the best boxing fighter and no one could win him at any fight matches. He was a tough and a stubborn guy. With a guy like him, giving up was not an option nor his goal. He would knock them out and win the championship.

Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest movie directors of all times. His first movie that I watched was Goodfellas which opened my mind to love the mafia movie genre. He always made his characters to narrate their stories so that I really like that way because it brought the audience to understand the character more and also put the audience in the movie to witness everything.

When Martin Scorsese was trying to tell the story of Jake LaMotta in a different way which was more artistic, he wanted people to see that LaMotta was just a normal person like others. A person who had anger problems, desperate to win, and soft. LaMotta was not a bad guy at all. He had a heart and he was a great boxing fighter. Martin wanted to defend him as a good person and that was great in every perspective.