There should be a cause

Einar 2022-03-21 09:01:54

Watching this movie is upon foreign teacher's request.



It's really a bad feeling to read the critics b/f watching the movie. It should come after your watching cause it'd strongly effect your opinion towards the movie

The story is intensive, all the events happened in 24 hours, which made me excited. Plus James's quite cool guy. Some may say it's a tragedy that he died in such a young age, but it is his good looking and early death made him a Hollywood legend, just as my teacher said "You'll never get the chance to see his old and fat image like Marlon Brando"



But to be honest, I'm a little bit fed up by this kind of "rebel or youth thing" movies, namely "A Clockwork Orange" (1972), "Trainspotting" (1996), "Ken Park" (2002), "Thirteen Princess Trees" (2006). Although most of the characters come from an incomplete family, with single parent, or even an orphan, they still have love, from this or that kind. To Jim, he has parents who love him deeply .To Plato, though a orphan, he gets a maid who sincerely care about him. Maybe the way they press their love cannot meet their need, but so what ?To me, as long as someone loves me that's enough! Why do they keep on desiring more and make the sense of insecurity dominate their life, even ruin them? It seems that our human being never know what enough is! It is ourselves make us unhappy.There is no one should be blamed on.



The movie truly refects the typical features of 1950's American society, with a well-going economy, which was a golden age for America after WWII. I'm not going to deny that there are no social problems, actually, where there is sunshine , there is shade. My point is can we just find a milder solution to figure things out?

Maybe I tend to simplify things what I see, but you have to admit that it's the secret to happiness.

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  • Lola 2021-12-08 08:01:40

    8/10. Jim, who had a hangover on the street, was caught in the police station. The police officer succeeded in subduing Jim with violence and violence, and listened kindly like his father, giving him decisiveness. On the other hand, the weak father and aggressive mother outside the cat’s eyes, the embarrassing and reluctant family relationship seemed to be closed. Farce. The hatred of his father reached its extreme before he surrendered. When Jim needed a direct answer about dignity, the father of the apron grabbed his hair helplessly, fearing to make a decision. Plato’s father didn’t even display the decorations. When Plato opened the letter excitedly, he got a check for condolences. At the climax, the role-playing game in the castle, the gangsters seeking assault, and a group of adult police officers who couldn’t communicate, showed the audience. Insecure growth environment. Not only the 180-degree tilt and rotation lens, but also the widescreen composition of the group play schedule is even more amazing: the opening scene framed the unknown protagonists on the same screen, the center position, the bright white shirt Jim became the focus, and Judy turned his head and noticed for the first time Jim, implying the following emotional relationship, Jim gave Plato the jacket representing friendship and was rejected. Later, Plato accepted the red jacket at the planetarium and trusted Jim again.

  • Janice 2021-12-08 08:01:40

    The scheduling is so beautiful. It is not easy for Lei to shoot such an independent film in the era of the big studios. The force is too high: the metaphor of the post-war scars, the same-sex implication of the Electra plot, the psychoanalytic template, etc., for no reason. Behind his rebellion is actually endless confusion; but the standard trinity structure makes the development of the story seem too fast, and the latter part is a bit unable to keep up.

Rebel Without a Cause quotes

  • Jim Stark: Did you make my sandwiches?

    Mrs. Carol Stark: There's meatloaf and, peanut butter.

    [Jim laughs]

    Mrs. Stark, Jim's grandmother: What did I tell you?

    [condescendingly]

    Mrs. Stark, Jim's grandmother: Peanut butter.

    Mrs. Carol Stark: Well there's a thermos of orange juice and apple sauce cake to go with it.

    Mrs. Stark, Jim's grandmother: [to Jim] And *I* made that.

  • Ray Fremick: Do you go by another name?

    Plato: They call me Plato.

    Crawford Family Maid: He was a Greek philosopher. They

    [Plato turns away]

    Crawford Family Maid: You talk nice to the man, John, he's going to help you.

    Plato: Nobody can help me.