Raging Bull

Watched this movie tonight. I have heard references to it many times and decided that the time had come to watch it.

I liked the movie. It was good. Martin Scorsece is a great director and this movie, shot in black and white, tells the story of Jake Lamotta a middleweight fighter in the 40's and 50's.

Robert Deniro plays Lamotta and Joe Pesci his brother. Lamotta was a great fighter but a seriously flawed person with an, at least from the movie, an almost psychotic paranoia and lack of trust of anybody.

Watching the old classic movies however this movie as good as it was is more realistic perhaps, more language, more blood and guts but to me it becomes apparent that those new tools are crutches. Telling the same story with all character is much harder.

A very good movie. Well worth watching