More than half a century has passed, and almost all the deeds of the "Beat Generation" represented by James Dean's Jamie and Salinger's Holden have been replicated in today's China - except for the post-war scars. "Rebel Without a Cause" more comprehensively expresses the confusion of a generation in a romantic way, or rather the deep incompetence and panic of the sensitive and the boredom of the dull: the achievements of the middle class have long been created by their ancestors. Weiye has been occupied by the bourgeoisie, and the whole society is like a chess board that has been completed by officials, leaving only a phantom middle class, extreme class solidification and decline, and the strong contrast between the recession of this generation and the prosperity of the previous generation. , along with the nagging of the elders, the only thing left for the young people is the endless loss of their own incompetence and inescapability-nothing can describe all of this better than what Salinger said-study hard, just to "open up in the future" last fuck Cadillac", the scene when Jamie tries to turn himself in at the police station illustrates this: "I've never done the right thing, I just want to do the right thing! "The lack of self-identity is filled in deformed ways among peers: ridicule of nerd (not shown in this film), hostility to newcomers, the formation of Plato's cold violence, a senseless and stupidity" Manliness" eventually killed Buzz with his clothes stuck on the handle, and the anti-Oedipus complex and the self-identification psychology of clinging to the powerful spread like a cloud of smoke among the weak, as the textbook Camus called "absurd". Jamie, who appeared as a man, appeared in the face of Don Juanism in an attempt to confront this social status quo (“The beauty of today will not be repeated, and tomorrow may not come at all”), but this is a confrontation with the entire capitalist world, Its tragic ending was so well-established that I had already guessed either Jamie or Plato by the time I saw the third act. Plato's tragedy was the result of a typical lack of parental care (in Freud's Is there any way to circumvent this? The answer is probably quite pessimistic, this is an unsolved question: when a society is no longer qualitatively developed in any way (new technology that changes humanity, revolutionary science or Philosophy, pioneering new territories, etc.), the involution will inevitably come like a tide, and then there will be endless anti-intellect, internal friction and recession on this basis. If human beings continue to be confined to this planet, they will always develop If there is not really a large amount of energy supply means, then this is an endless cycle. After being unable to build any achievements, the tiredness of repetitive life will force bored people to rush around like headless flies, venting excess energy, consumerism The fanaticism of the book, the emergence of Buddhist youth, the aging of the population, and the lifeless society are nothing new and have been reread many times in several other civilizations. The strong contrast between the two is rare in human history. Many times, by reviewing American history in the past, we can find the reasons for today's problems. Under the sun, there is nothing new.
Speaking of this movie, James Dean's nerves and melancholy temperament and kind heart are the whole child's rebellion against the dead age. Although it seems to have no cause, the subconscious has created countless "cause" reasons. From this point , he was purely "rebellious for a reason". However, this kind of reason is absolutely rational and restrained. He is very clear about what he wants (try to avoid conflicts with Buzz, even if the other party puts his own tires on the gas), he also has his own morality and honor standards (when facing the When Buzz's provocation touched his bottom line, he immediately duel with a knife, and did not flinch in the face of the jumping competition. After Buzz died violently, he wanted to turn himself in), in contrast to the subsequent hippie movement and the large number of accompanying Promiscuity, drug use, violence, and a large number of mentally retarded followers in the rock trend (including some grunge and some heavy metals, but now they have almost entered the garbage heap of the times, and no one will remember them in a hundred years), the collective Unconscious internal friction can only be called a combination of human evil and ignorance, and calling it a tribute to James Dean is the greatest slander against him. Both Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley expressed their disappointment. When Bob Dylan distributed the leaves to John Lennon to fly with him, he probably didn't understand how his cigarettes could become other people's drugs. In fact, most people's self-control Still too weak to restrain himself, and not sensitive enough to reflect on himself.
ps. This movie and James Dean's erratic, sometimes melancholy, sometimes unpredictable, eccentric rubber face are so deeply rooted and influential (in the US) that he got two Oscar nominations after his car accident, leather jacket + Jeans directly became a cultural symbol like Holden's beret. After watching this movie, Bob Dylan took up the acoustic guitar and harmonica to complete the famous "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", the cover and James Dean wears the same outfit. My favorite band, Eagles, simply wrote a song of the same name in memory of the actor who died young. Taylor Swift, a popular female singer of the last era, directly said in the song that James Dean was his dream Lover.
pps. After watching 50's in Los Angeles, the GTA5 in my hard drive is ready to move again, although I failed to find Mulholland Drive last time... I will go to the Galileo Observatory another day to see if the broken rafter is still there, the old and new in the city are strange Alternate is almost identical to the city I've been in.
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