Ordinary People and Raging Bull couldn’t be more different in style or tone. Raging Bull is all blood, sweat and tears and wears its heart on its sleeve. The heart in Ordinary People is alive and well in Connie but is buried beyond all reach in the green, green lawns of Lake Forest. Ordinary People feels as if it was made in a different era – a slower, more buttoned-up, soporific world. No expressionistic flourishes here. No swearing, no violence, but behind the posh parties and white pic...
