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I'm hoping we're all in agreement that Raging Bull is a stone-cold masterpiece because it is. I just think that with Goodfellas Scorsese made something that isn't only flawless (IMO), it appears to have had no precedent. I can't watch it and relate it to any film made before it, not just in terms of gangster movies but movies period, whereas I can see clear links in Raging Bull to stuff like neo-realism, Brando, film noir. I'd go as far as to say that Raging Bull was a film he had to make to really unburden him of his obsession with film history, allowing him to finally tackle film on his own terms. Raging Bull is like a farewell love letter to all those obsessions.
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