Bryan Tamez

 

Rebel without a cause

A review by Bryan Tamez

March 13, 2014

In all the movies about teenage life the movie “Rebel without a cause” is one that can show why some teens act the way they do and why they can’t always do everything that you want them to. This movie shows that there are lots of things that can negatively impact a young teenage boy trying to find out how he’s going to do for the rest of his life.

In this movie that was directed by Nicholas Ray in 1955 staring James Dean who plays Jim Stark: a boy who is new to the school and is trying to fit in but can’t because he does not know how the school works. A younger boy who becomes his friend named Plate who is played by Sal Mineo and also Judy who is played by Natalie Wood.

In the movie Jim Stark make enemy’s with the most popular kid and is asked to a chicken run. A chicken run is when two (stolen) cars are raced towards a cliff and whoever jumps out first loses and leads to the one who jumps out last second wins. In the movie something goes seriously wrong and someone ends up dying. With all this happening Jim Stark is near his breaking point and decides to run away to this abandoned mansion. While all this is happening he meets this boy called Plato who is played by Sal Mineo who is younger than him but in his view they are now known as friends.

In the movie I like the idea of symbolism and how any little tiny bit of detail can have a whole meaning behind it and can symbolize something. The red jacket that Jim whore through the whole movie symbolized trouble because it showed that every time he had it on something bad would have happened or someone would get hurt. Also I like the idea of light being the real world and Plato not wanting to see the light because he knew that the light meant that he was going to have to face the world again for shooting the teenager and also facing the world without parents and the end for him pretending to have Jim and Judy as parents.

I would recommend this for all audiences because it shows  ((did not finish))