De Niro is amazing the method stuff alone is great, but his whole performance is intense. The relationship stuff is also gripping and Scorsese handles he human cost just as well as he shows us the physical beatings. My favourite effect is the sound editing in the fights where silence and calm seem to descend just before key moments .amazing. The fight scenes are other worldly exaggerated to the extent that it is breathtaking and more shocking than previous boxing scenes in other movies. Scorsese is on top form the use of black and white any have been a quality issue, but he uses it well. Combine this with the gripping boxing tale of ups and downs and you have a film that never outstays it's welcome. The film allows us to watch a man who goes along with all the things he thinks make him a man even when those characteristics and habits begin to destroy everything he has his marriage, his realtionships and his career. The story is fascinating in itself but as an examination of masculinity it excels. This was one of their best to date (and probably for ever). Whether it be media satire (King of Comedy), small time thugs (Mean Streets) or real gangsta s**t (Goodfellas), the two rarely miss. Scorsese and De Niro nobody needs say any more.
The story of boxer Jake La Motta from his rising star in the 1940's through to his own downfall and his eventual living on the cabaret circuit in the present day.
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