by Joseph A. Hazani February 9, 2014
Raging Bull is considered consistently one of the best films ever made, and it is very easy to see why. Mr. Scorsese flawlessly is able to capture the sea of emotions that arise through interpersonal conflict in a way which is simply stunning and uncanny. The most powerful points in the film are ironically at their most simplest, filmed on a small set that is supposed to pass as a mid-century....
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by Joseph A. Hazani January 21, 2014
The theme of Natural Selection is trust. What does it mean to trust someone? It means to have a belief in an uncertainty, or a faith. What makes trusting people an act of faith then? What aspect of a relationship has uncertainties? Clearly, the relationship itself and what it means for each individual’s side of the coin. Trust is to have faith that both people have a common....
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by Joseph A. Hazani January 13, 2014
Martin Scorsese is a master at taking the raunchy and making it artful, like crafting a sculpture out of a bin of rotten garbage. The assembly pieces of rotten banana peels and plastic soda can rings in this instance is by coincidence a group of Wall Street stock brokers. I say by coincidence, because it is not as if the intention of this film was to criticize that....
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