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Super movie for watching Italian immigrants in late 40s - 50s - 60s in NY ghettos engaging characters, perfect and exploring camera work for its day , and 5* acting from Niro, Pechi and Moriaty - & of course Director is excellent - Very realistic ....????????? Unfortunately its the usual fate of most successful sports stars but not limited to coming out of poor backgrounds ... Watch the dialog between Peshi and Niro - Did you or did you not f**k my wife .... amazing reailty !!!!!
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De Niro is incredible and definitely worth watching
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This is yet another incredibly convincing performance from Robert Deniro, all the more impressive considering he is playing such an utterly horrible human being. This film takes the viewer through some of the most turbulent years of the career of Jake La Motta, the famous boxer. It's just as well that Deniro's acting and Scorcese's directing are of such a high calibre, because Jake La Motta himself was a thoroughly unpleasant man who cheated on his first wife, seduced a fifteen year old girl, went on to marry that fifteen year old girl and the proceeded to knock her about incessantly. He also neglected his career and ended up, as his wife called him, 'a fat pig'. Scarily, Deniro acts this part with aplomb, and Scorcese's direction gives the usual gritty Taxi Driver/Mean Streets quality. Everything here is shot in black and white, including the fight scenes, which are so powerful they defy belief. At one point during a fight, blood splatters several spectators across the face. This may or may not be there for dramatic embellishment, but it's a powerful effect just the same. Difficult though it was for me to like Jake La Motta as a person, this film is absolutely worth seeing for the wonderful acting of Robert Deniro, in one of his classic roles.Read full review
THIS IS A REALLY WELL MADE FILM....GREAT SCENES....THIS FILM SHOWS THE LIFE OF THE BOXER JAKE LA MOTTA... HIS RISE AND FALL.... HOW HIS SEXUAL LIFE AND PRIDE BROKE HIM DOWN!!! BEST NOT TO TELL U TOO MUCH OF THE STORY :-) IF YOU AINT SEEN THIS FILM WATCH IT ...ALTHOUGH THIS IS A FILM ABOUT A BOXER AND HIS LIFE...ITS A GREAT MOVIE TO WATCH FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO AINT BOXING FANS!!!!
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