The most beautiful movie of all time.

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2003)

In my opinion, it can't get any better. This movie is so touching, so daring, so fantastic that I almost cry everytime I see it. Robert DeNiro is acting his role of a lifetime as Jake La Motta, the violent and psychotic boxer. Martin Scorsese's direction takes us through his life, his ups, his downs, and his fight to continue on.
First of all, this movie has is not a feel-good movie. It's silence and story is sometimes terrorizing, not to mention the fighting scenes, which are not brought in there for box-office performance. The fabulous black-and-white boxing matches are filmed with such an elegance that you are hardly able to glimpse. It's that well-done.
Before this movie, I thought boxing was very stupid (as a matter of fact), but this movie makes the "danse macabre" an art. It's almost beauty. To see the beauty in violence, only then do you truly know motion picture art. Which is why this movie tells us exactly why Martin Scorsese is the greatest living director. Not only are you anstounded by the way this movie looks, but the whole atmosphere, the feeling of being with him, feeling with Jake is so fantastic.
The acting done by Robert DeNiro is not only his best work, but perhaps the best in cinema history. The character of Jake has so many sides to convince the audience about, and this is exactly what Bob does. Also, his performance is one of the prime examples of method acting. Before the movie, DeNiro had boxed over a 1000 rounds of boxing with the actual Jake La Motta, and he had lost about 30 pounds. Then, to get into Jake La Motta's life after boxing, he put on another 60. If that's not dedication, then what is it?
It's actually unbelievable how low this movie is on the top 250, as I, and lots of others would reckon this as the truly greatest motion picture of all time. It's hard to tell why, but the movie is so emotional, so beautiful, and Martin Scorsese has without a doubt with this movie shown exactly how talented he is. Don't hesitate. This movie is a masterpiece. Actually even more than just than.
10/10.