1. Guilt and Violence in Raging Bull
As Michael Bliss says, "this pattern of violence followed by enlightenment continually reasserts itself, a horrifying situation since it makes violence a prerequisite to self-awareness.... It will only be later, in the loneliness of a jail cell estranged from his family and without having to go through a rite that Jake will achieve the self-awareness redemption requires. ... As the Catholic philosopher Paul Ricoeur says: Guilt becomes a way of putting oneself before a sort of invisible tribunal which measures the offense, pronounces the condemnation, and inflicts the punishment; at the e...
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