East of Eden Comments

  • Weston 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    Early practice of CinemaScope, 4:3 composition for widescreen. The overall rhythm is too slow, the feeling of filming a drama, the book is very good. The way of acting turns to reality. Low light, beveled. Saw it last...

  • Alana 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    This period drama, set during the First World War, is a metaphor for the conflict between traditional religious ideas and modern ideas of liberty that existed in American society and family life at the time the film was shot, as evidenced by the casting of James Dean, Dean. And his character is a presence beyond the age of the story. The slanted composition where the characters are placed on the edge is used many times in scenes of parent-son conflict, emphasizing the irreconcilable antagonism...

  • Theodore 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    O James Dean...ura likeable kid... that dodgy, erratic, happy, sad, stupid, and cunning cal (wait a minute, am I talking about Daiyu), beware of the distressed boy. (But still good-looking America) What's good what's bad? All binary black-and-white worldviews lead to tragedy. It's great to have such a book rhythm acting in 55...

  • Luciano 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    This version of Kazan focuses on what happened on the last 100 pages of the original. The biblical conflict between Cain and Abel is here more clearly a conflict between generations, that is, between different values. The point is, Dean brought Carl to life. A person is different from others. He just lacks understanding, not evil. Only the narrow-mindedness of the parents led to the tragedy of the family. As for the forgiveness at the end of the film, that's just a...

  • Reagan 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    Adapted from John Steinbeck's novel, this film is an inversion of the biblical story of two brothers, Cain and Abel killing each other. It has evolved into a deep and powerful family ethics film. The film is extremely detailed about the complex feelings between father and son. Although the rhythm is slow, the plot is rich. The film is also James Dean's blockbuster and famous work. The sentimental and rebellious youth image he performed in the film was popular all over the world in the 1950s,...

  • Nannie 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    James Dean is a...

  • Gussie 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    Movie history classic! There are few films that explore the relationship between father and son. This work shows the rebelliousness of being a son as an expression of love! It also explains the selfishness of the parents, that is, both parents will prefer a child who is like themselves, and then the jealousy and love and hatred between brothers, the pure emotional expression between men is always violent, direct, not sober and not sober. understandable. Finally, James dean is indeed a...

  • Wiley 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    The most beloved movie, the most beloved JD, I have watched it no less than 10 times, and I have also read the original novel. I have shed countless tears for the young son in the film, and I will never forget JD's youthful and fragile face. . . Like the mirror image of my youth, it records all my loneliness, confusion, pain and...

  • Ellen 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    The successful re-creation of the biblical story is a role tailored for James Dean. Throughout the film, his cautiousness, his heartache, his anger, his forbearance, his desire to be loved, and his emotions have always followed him....

  • Isabell 2022-04-20 09:02:08

    It was so distressing to look at, his eyes were always dodging, and his body was always shrinking into a ball. Simple and fragile like a child, with numbness and despair on the surface, but silently making plans in his heart to please his father. How a person's life will develop is his own choice, but first, if he is a person. Those who are not loved by others, do not dare to love others, are full of pity in their eyes, and are full of despair in their hearts, such a person cannot be called an...

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East of Eden quotes

  • [Abra pleads with Adam to reconcile with his son]

    Abra: Mr. Trask, it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. Don't ask me - even if you could - how I know that. I just know it. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. And that's the way Cal has always felt, Mr. Trask. All his life! Maybe you didn't mean it that way - but it's true. You never gave him your love. You never asked for his. You never asked him for one thing.

  • Abra: But you must give him some sign, Mr. Trask, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.