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1980 · drama · biography

Raging Bull

Directed by Martin Scorsese2h 9m1980
ElsewhereIMDb8.1408kRT92%Metacritic90TMDB7.95k
  • heavy
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme drama / biography, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Our read · Raging Bull (1980) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · biography entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want brutal character study of self-destruction in black and white.

ends devastatingit stays with youmeditativegrips by minute 15attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou are not ready for domestic cruelty and punishing masculinity.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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