Peremptorily, what comes to mind about boxing is a man with invincible strength. However, you will have some other perspectives about this statement after watching ‘Raging Bull’.

Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro), a middleweight boxer, brutally evinces his weaknesses in the film and blatantly demonstrates them in a capricious way without even thinking about what exactly his problems are. LaMotta, in the movie, goes all out hysterically to suspect his wife Vickie (Cathy Moriarty) of infidelity. His overwhelming jealousy and suspicion make him the most possessive man in the world startling every eye of an audience under the big screen.

As to the boxing scenes, they are unrivaled yet comparable to Rocky. The soundtrack is especially extraordinary. Every time a boxing scene starts, your heartbeat will, all of a sudden, raise high by a loud sound deliberately made to awaken you without your knowledge. LaMotta performs every contest with his opponent out of his drive instead of tactics, every punch is a scene of sweat and blood and masculine, and, Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie, is kind enough to make the movie black and white in color, avoiding the spurting blood vivid to display in front of our eyes.

Although boxing is the subject of the movie, the inadequacies of LaMotta’s character have made it secondary. While he can win a lot of champions being many times a record champion boxer and even knocking down Sugar Ray Robinson, his duel in the 1940s and 50s, the awful level of his inadequacies has made his life the most chaotic and miserable. We are sad to watch him solitarily jailed inside a little confined room in a Miami cell, pounding his fists toward the wall millions of times suffering excruciating pain, hysterically crying out ‘why’, ‘why’, ‘why’ adding ‘I am not bad, I am not bad’.

My sentiments after watching LaMotta are that a man must have spiritual and psychological qualities so that he will have a heart liberal and nice enough to understand a woman, unlike LaMotta being empty inside with nothing able to even know what a female’s idiosyncrasy is, but merely being rude, jealous, and egoistic outside but empty, fearful, insecure, and low self-esteem inside to arbitrarily judge or suspect a woman.

Physical strength is important to a man; however, spiritual and psychological ones are no less important than it. Being a real and powerful bull knowing to properly treat a woman can avoid being paranoid and incompetent to trust a woman like Raging Bull.