![]() Scorsese goes overboard in an attempt at low-keyed naturalism, however, and there is little dramatic structure to the biographical overview. From this opening, it flashes back to 1941 and his loss to Jimmy Reeves (Floyd Anderson), and then proceeds to scan events in La Motta’s life and his major fights. The film is framed with scenes of La Motta preparing for a concert reading in New York in 1964. There is only one brief moment in the film - when La Motta breaks down and cries after he has thrown a fight in order to get a chance at the championship - that the character is even the least bit sympathetic. It’s a downbeat study of a man whose only concern is winning the middleweight championship and whose unfounded jealousy and violent temper alienated everyone around him. 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi': THR's 1983 Reviewīased on La Motta’s autobiography, which was written with Joseph Carter and Peter Aavage, the screenplay by Paul Schader and Maardik Martin makes no attempt to glamorize the fighter’s life.
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