- Tytuł:
- THE SPECTACLE OF REDEMPTION: GUILT AND VIOLENCE IN MARTIN SCORSESE’S RAGING BULL
- Autorzy:
- Serrano, Arturo
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/507426.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2015-06-30
- Wydawca:
- International Étienne Gilson Society
- Tematy:
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Raging Bull
Scorsese
redemption
guilt
violence
boxing
absolution
penance
sacrament - Opis:
- Of all the characters that undertake a search for redemption in Martin Scorsese’s films, perhaps it is the story of Jake La Motta in Raging Bull that for many reasons presents the greatest challenge to understanding redemption’s role in the narratives of his films. Is Jake La Motta a redeemed character at the end of Raging Bull? I argue that Scorsese uses Raging Bull to criticize a ritualistic view of redemption by portraying the beginning of Jake’s search as a futile attempt to submit himself to a public spectacle of ritual violence in the boxing ring while visually relating this to the Catholic sacraments and the crucifixion. It will only be later—in the loneliness of a jail cell, estranged from his family and without having to have had gone through a rite—that Jake achieves the self-awareness redemption requires.
- Źródło:
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Studia Gilsoniana; 2015, 4, 2; 131-148
2300-0066 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Gilsoniana
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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