In the dim light of the Bronx streets and rooms that grow dark in a matter of seconds, a man struggles with his own rage. Directed by Martin Scorsese, this drama brings to the silver screen—through a black-and-white aesthetic—the trapped state of a boxer clinging to the ropes of the ring, caught between victory and ruin. The violence Jake LaMotta keeps bottled up inside gradually transforms into a suffocating paranoia that eventually engulfs even those closest to him. In the icy void brought on by fame, a life filled with broken noses and extinguished ambitions slowly unravels.