LIKE MOST OF SCORCESE'S FILMS, RAGING BULL IS PREOCCUPIED WITH VIOLENCE. DOES IT HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THE SUBJECT?

It is clearly in modern society that people are able to both enjoy their profession and earn a substantial amount of money (if the job allows it), as in the case with Jake La Motta, the protagonist in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. Because Jake is a boxer, society is essentially giving him monetary incentive to act in a violent and malicious manner. Jake is rewarded for his vulgar disposition inside the ring, but these actions …

…out on the individual in front of him whilst in the ring, he releases his pent up emotions on the closest members of his family, subsequently entrapping himself like an angry animal by isolating himself from, in particular, Joey and Vicki. By way of such visual techniques such as the mise-en-scene in the majority of the film, Martin Scorsese shows us that Jake La Motta is in fact, as the title suggests, a Raging Bull.