He tries to talk to him, to repair the damage of lost years. He tried his hand at “stand-up comedy,” never understanding the difference between ironic one-liners and being flat-out insulting to his audience.īut where we really see LaMotta as the “bull,” as the man who believes he can just will his body to produce whatever he wants, is in one final heartbreaking scene with his brother.Īfter years of not seeing or talking to one another, Jake happens upon Joey late at night. He was thrown in jail for providing underage women to the male patrons in the nightclub he owned bearing his own name. In his post-fighting career, he caroused enough to have his wife finally - justly - walk out on him. He tried forever to make it to the top of the middleweight division in the 1950s based on his own merits in the midst of a corrupt and crooked structure for getting to the top.īut that desire to walk the straight and narrow, to rise above the fray, wasn’t really LaMotta. He refuses to go down, even after dropping the championship he spent too many years to earn, he chides Sugar Ray Robinson at the final bell - letting him know, repeatedly, that Robinson was never able to knock him down. There are parts of LaMotta’s character to be admired, certainly. LaMotta is what boxing has long told us it was - the chance for the underprivileged to punch their way out of the projects, out of racial and ethnic stereotypes.
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