ZampanÃ² in modern day life

Rating: 8/10 (8 August 2004)

Jake La Motta represented the ideal Beast Man of the 20th century. Raging Bull is his story. The story of a man who gains the world but loses his soul. Like (the great) Zampano in La Strada, Scorsese uses La Motta to show the similarity of two men. Raging Bull is in a way a love story between La Motta and the second wife he takes (Very similar to Zampano's purchasing of his second girl). In the end, La Motta loses his youth and his act and once again is left with memories after breaking down from the loss of his true love. Like the repeated song that La Motta says over and over and over again, Zampano has his trick of breaking the medal chain around his chest and having his long winded speech about it. Both stories are equal and amazing. It is America's La Strada!