La Motta's career, it is a movie with a resonant life and style of its own. Though it pays careful attention to the factual details of Mr. The film, which opens today at the Sutton and Cinerama 1, is far too particular to be conveniently classified as either a fight movie or a film biography. Though ''Raging Bull'' has only three principal characters, it is a big film, its territory being the landscape of the soul. TAKING as his starting point the troubled life of Jake La Motta, the tough New York City kid who slugged his way to the world middleweight boxing championship in 1948 and then went on to lose almost everything, Martin Scorsese (''Mean Streets,'' ''Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,'' ''Taxi Driver'') has made his most ambitious film as well as his finest.
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