During the eight long years between the opening fight and his championship bout in 1949, the Bronx Bull's life is frequently a mess. Most of the film chronicles his boxing career and troubled marriage as a young man, with the infamously overweight De Niro only clocking in for the final half-hour - but all the seeds for his downfall are planted during that long period of hunger, aggression, and paranoia. Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro) slowly punches his way to the top in the 1940s, and quickly falls to the bottom in the 1950s.Martin Scorsese) appeared at #84 on my original list. The Favorites is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick.
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