Raging Bull

brilliance, my favorite Scorsese masterpiece and Bobby De Niro’s greatest performance, this is such a devastatingly, beautiful but jarring tale of a man willing to fight every demon but his own, I read about Scorsese being hospitalized from a drug overdose when he was pitched the story of Jake LaMotta by Bobby and Joe Pesci as a way to find new purpose in life, thank God for real friends, something Jake LaMotta seemed to have never had